Redwood Performance Group

Be a better leader

  • January 8, 2020
  • Lydia Sani
Joanne Trotta has written many excellent articles about the importance of soft skills, such as empathy for effective leadership. She notes, “In my opinion, effective leadership simply does not...

Learn more about learning

  • January 8, 2020
  • Lydia Sani
The eLearning Coach’s Connie Malamed has kindly put together her LIST and rationale for five “books that pack a powerful punch.”  Agile for Instructional Designers by Megan Torrance Fully Compliant: Compliance...

Build a learning organization

  • January 7, 2020
  • Lydia Sani
Christopher Pappas has put together a nicely done article on how to build a learning organization to improve workplace performance. We recommend reading the full ARTICLE to find out more about...

The myth of learning styles

  • May 21, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
This one might be a wee bit controversial for people in the learning industry. After all, learning styles (how learners prefer to get their learning) has been conventional wisdom...

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...