Redwood Performance Group

Build a better assessment

  • May 21, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Mary Burns writes about computer-based assessments in eLearning Industry’s online blog. She says poor design is one of the main reasons any assessment will fail. We agree, but we...

Toxic positivity

  • May 21, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
The Urban Dictionary describes toxic positivity as “the belief that, if you stay positive, you will overcome any obstacle,” to such a degree that you invalidate natural emotional responses...

Brené Brown knows things

  • May 21, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Sarah Schuster writes about toxic positivity, including her take for how Brené Brown describes empathy. Sarah concludes: “If sympathy is shouting down at someone while they’re stuck in a...

Dear Abby for the workplace

  • April 3, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
There’s very good advice found in Alison Green’s ASK A MANAGER website and in her books. Alison’s been answering people’s work-related questions since 2007. She gets questions on topics like how...

Bad brainstorming kills ideas

  • April 3, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Professor, author and innovation expert, Barry L. Cross has written a discussion paper for Queen’s University Smith School of Business on the topic of brainstorming and how storyboarding can help...

Alison Green has biases

  • April 3, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Yes, we already posted about advice columnist, Alison Green; however, the biases she lists in her Ask a Manager website are worth their own post: “I believe the whole point...

When not to invest in training

  • February 27, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
This is a good Ron Carucci article. He writes about when companies should invest in training their employees and when they shouldn’t. The first step is to understand whether...

Six ways to make learning stick

  • February 27, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Redwood’s tagline is learning that sticks. So we thought we’d share Kirstie Greany’s interview with Learning Psychologist, Stella Collins: HOW TO MAKE BRAIN-FRIENDLY LEARNING THAT STICKS. Here are her...

The power of empathy

  • February 26, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Helen Riess is an expert on the neuroscience of empathy, including developing online evidence-based online empathy training. She says, “We are all connected on a...