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...

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...

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...