Global perspective – what sound does your heart beat?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, creativity & innovation
From a global perspective, what song does your heart beat? Something with choreographed symbols and full on symphony or are you more African beat and wild abandon? Perhaps the husky, whiskey soaked hue of the blues or the smoky eyes and dark night blues? Take a look, lend an ear. And repeat: what sound does [...]
Tags: global perspective, heart beat, song
Training & development learning well January blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, change management & wellness, creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
The first month of the new year is about to slip by. Sit up, take notice & look back before looking forward. If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply usher yourself down to the well & click as you wish. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into [...]
Tags: change management, creativity, culture, emmanuel jal, forgiveness, jen louden, learning, to do
Freedom for creativity? Freedom from creativity? Is this a playground or a jail?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation
Freedom? Restrictions? Limitations? Guidelines? Safety? Security? Sanctions? Sanctimonious? The signs surrounding the playground that swam by me as I jogged my way around Washington Square in New York City a while back got me thinking. Do we need rules to set us free? Is this a safe space within a jungle? Or is it a [...]
Tags: creativity, new york city, perspective
Fresh perspective = creativity + words that dance
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation
What if words could dance? What if content could sing? What if training & development could taste? A whole lot more creativity, that’s what. Here’s what can happen when you bust out & think out loud, out of the proverbial box…. Creativity. Never gonna give you up. It’s a must. A ‘gotta have’. A go [...]
Tags: creativity
How about a bedtime story a million miles away?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation
Rising up and gracefully meeting the challenges that today’s ever increasingly fast paced world presents can’t be done with the thinking of yesteryear. Changing perspective means breaking out of the bonds that tie our brains down. Encumbered with false assumptions (we’ve gotta do it this way, any other way won’t work, we tried before, it [...]
Tags: a story before bed, assumptions, communication, creativity, learning, perspective, reading
And the winners of ‘Eureka’ are …. (insert drum roll here)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation
I came across this great video (see below) from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative. It caught my eye because the title assumes you and me are creative to start with, which is my mantra. Creativity is in our DNA – some of us just have to dig deeper for it if we’ve [...]
Tags: cam sylvester, diane prentice, sam crespi, tofu design
29 ways to stay creative when you’re training (part 3 of 3) plus a contest
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, training & development
Note: this post contains a chance to win a free song. Keep reading for how to enter… I came across this great video (see below) from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative. I really like the title because it assumes you and me are creative to start with, which is my mantra. Creativity [...]
Tags: agenda, creativity, curiousity, inspiration, organization
29 ways to stay creative … when you’re training (part 2 of 3)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, training & development
I came across this great video (see below) from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative. I really like the title because it assumes you and me are creative to start with, which is my mantra. Creativity is in our DNA – some of us just have to dig deeper for it if we’ve [...]
Tags: collaboration, creativity, danielle laporte, Dolly Hopkins, dyana valentine, feedback
29 ways to stay creative … when you’re training (part 1 of 3)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, training & development
I came across this great video from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative. The title caught my eye – particularly the word stay as it assumes you and me are creative to start with, which I firmly believe. You can view the video below. I’ve added to each point to emphasize how you [...]
Tags: inspiration, organization
Jessica Fraser, co-founder, Mobile Movement, on innovation.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation
I recently co-hosted AIESEC’s Youth to Business Forum where 500 delegates came from 110 countries to engage, inspire and take action on three tracks: innovation, corporate responsibility and leadership. My last two posts talked about wise words from AIESEC speakers Chris Weeks, Director for Humanitarian Affairs, DHL and what he said about corporate responsibility and [...]
Tags: chris weeks, corporate responsibility, dhl, innovation, jessica fraser, leadership, marianne knuth, mobile movement