Not A Happy Accident: How Google Deliberately Designs Workplace Satisfaction
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
I love getting updates from Fast Company. Not heard of them? Their articles are chock-a-block full of creative, current content. Like this one. Check out my summary below &/or click on the link for the full articlie. Not A Happy Accident: How Google Deliberately Designs Workplace Satisfaction “What few in business know is that Google [...]
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The 4th annual To do, To stop doing & To’odle compilation
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
This blog post is taken from this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. newsletter. See the entire newsletter, including free, related resources here. Don’t receive our monthly newsletter? Whatsamatter you! Sign up here. It’s a new year, fresh with the smell of a new calendar, a fresh start, a clean page. At this time of year you may [...]
Tags: dan lewis, danielle laporte, hubspot, joanna oser, mike volpe, time management, to do, united nations
We leak our Life Lenses™ – even with our computer bags
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
My (Carrot Life Lens™) approach: gleefully I dove into finding new homes for my things, creating new systems, organizing and tucking away with utter satisfaction. My partner’s (Mountain Life Lens™) approach: harumphing, he reluctantly transferred things over. It was a chore. Not fun. He wanted it done and over. While the pictures above aren’t of [...]
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What frames your view? A Life Lenses™ take on provocative video
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources, Humor & comedy
Is the video below funny, creative, rule breaking and subversive or a waste of time, waste of energy and sadly pathetic? Depends on your view. Depends on how you frame things. A Carrot Life Lens™ appreciates the attention to detail. A Mountain Life Lens™ likes the strategy. A Destination Life Lens™ approves getting it done. [...]
Tags: humour, organizational culture
25 years of cataloguing 137,000 Moghul documents
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
Since 1961 a team has been hard at work in India cataloguing 137,000 documents from the Moghul era (Moghuls are descendants of Genghis Khan). The team has dwindled in size to only 4, because there are only 4 people who can read them. In an article in the Globe & Mail Stephanie Nolen says “It [...]
Tags: document, knowledge management
Results of ‘What % of the time is the leading scorer on the winning World Cup team? And what does it have to do with organizational culture?!?’
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
Last week I wrote a post about ‘What percent of the time is the leading scorer on the winning World Cup team? And what does it have to do with organizational culture?!?,’ Spoiler alert! Now for the results…. (Didn’t get a chance to cast your interactive vote? Simply head over there now before reading the [...]
Tags: aaron johannes, dave ulrich, emmanuel jal, melanda schmid, organizational culture
What percent of the time is the leading scorer on the winning World Cup team? And what does it have to do with organizational culture?!?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
A while back I was fortunate to take part in Dave Ulrich’s day long workshop for the Institute of Human Resource Management, in Nairobi. One of the most interesting bits was his take on organizational culture. But first, some sports trivia compliments of Dave (note: if you’re not a sports fan like me, hang in there, [...]
Tags: dave ulrich, ihrm, organizational culture
Push for drama – the role of drama in learning & memory
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, training & development
Watching the unwitting people’s responses to the drama is almost as funny as the drama itself in the video below. Do we need more drama? Certainly drama captures our attention – like pigeons, with their notoriously bad eyesight, who subsequently bob their heads back & forth to create movement that literally captures their attention – [...]
Tags: learning, memory, retention, vonrestorff
The difference between awareness & vision
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
I’ve been working on revising some training & development curriculum for UN-Habitat, specifically for engaging youth & local leaders. I came across the following work by David Tees & Fred Fisher. It lays out the difference between awareness & vision. Where are you on the spectrum? Where does your perspective go to naturally & easily? [...]
Tags: awareness, david tees, fred fisher, vision
A social media training treasure hunt
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, communication
Today is the first day of a new course I’m teaching called ‘Transforming Workplace Learning through Social Media’ and I thought I’d let you in on some of the treasures to be found when you incorporate Social Media into your training and development work. (And yes, Social Media deserves to be capitalized ….. pun intended.) [...]
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