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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...

17 eLearning Trends of 2019

  • February 26, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
We’re highlighting Asha Pandy’s eLearning Industry’s article about eLearning trends in 2019 for a reason. It’s well thought out and she has structured the trends into four groupings as follows:...

Stop making New Year’s resolutions

  • January 15, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Welcome to 2019! Meg Salter, author of Mind Your Life: How Mindfulness Can Build Resilience and Reveal Your Extraordinary, recommends setting goals and intentions rather than New Years’ resolutions. Goals...

Speaking truth to leaders

  • January 15, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
When speaking uncomfortable truths to leaders, leadership, talent management and OD expert, Leslie Michener recommends the do’s and don’ts shown below. Leslie also delivers more insights and stories in...