Redwood Performance Group

Great leaders listen

  • February 25, 2020
  • Lydia Sani
I came across this old article by Susan Mazza in Saba Blog Digest, where she talks about how listening to people shows them you care. It’s also an excellent...

Keep your goals to yourself

  • January 8, 2020
  • Lydia Sani
It’s that time of year again—when we declare this year’s resolutions to all our friends and colleagues. But how many of our goals are then abandoned? There’s always been...

Do you know this person?

  • January 8, 2020
  • Lee.Downs
A colleague recently asked me to go to a site called thispersondoesnotexist.com. I clicked on the link, and what came up was a photograph of a person—refreshing the link brought...

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...

Long live the Quilty resistance!

  • January 8, 2020
  • Lydia Sani
Workers at a Houston animal shelter couldn’t figure out how their rescue cats kept escaping the cat room in the evening. Looking at security footage, they found the culprit—a...

Remember to breathe

  • January 8, 2020
  • Lydia Sani
We all have moments when we feel overwhelmed, which results in anxiety and sometimes outright panic. There’s a simple solution that can get fast results—RESONANT BREATHING. It works, and...

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...

Machine learning—also for the bats

  • November 4, 2019
  • Lee.Downs
Neuroecologist, Yossi Yovel and his team modified a machine learning algorithm, so they could analyze how Egyptian fruit bats communicate. The result? Bats speak to each other as individuals—and...