Storytelling as a culture builder – 3 funny resources to help you get storytelling
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources
Storytelling is an underused strategic tool for building and maintaining great organizations. In my last two posts I covered 9 tips to help you get storytelling and three resources to help you get going. Now for three funny resources to tickle your storytelling funny bone: 1. Listen to how this feisty grandma, a former nurse, [...]
Tags: corporate storytelling, jeanne robertson, periodic table of storytelling, storytelling
Storytelling as a culture builder – 3 resources to help you get storytelling
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources
Storytelling is a strategic tool for building organizational culture, managing change, teambuilding and more. In my last post I covered 9 tips to help you get storytelling. Here are three resources to assist you in your storytelling journey: Check out Springboard, the classic book by Stephen Denning, considered the grand-daddy of using storytelling as an [...]
Tags: corporate storytelling, Daniel Pink, heath brothers, made to stick, springboard, stephen denning, storytelling
Storytelling as a culture builder – how feather dusters & snow globes can help
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources
‘Tell me a story’ are words to make most people’s blood pressure increase. Just as North American corporate audiences don’t tend to sing or draw in public, we don’t tend to tell stories either. Or do we? The background story We all tell stories and we tell them all the time. We just may not [...]
Tags: change management, Daniel Pink, echo memoirs, engagement, infographics, made to stick, organizational culture, sam reynolds, storytelling
He ain’t heavy, he’s my (misinformed) brother – how a little information can go a wrong way
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Humor & comedy, training & development
Warning: this post is a little graphic. I decided to run it because I originally received the joke from my mum-in-law. I figured if she found it funny you may too. Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and preceded to the checkout counter. The man at [...]
Tags: organizational development, perspective, safety, training & development
The psychology of email vrs twitter (or pigeons vrs eagles)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Human resources
We’re really just trussed up pigeons you and I. Yep, add a few feathers to our daily costumes and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between you and my fine feathered friends. Pigeons you see (pun intended) have terrible eyesight. Pigeons bob their heads to and fro, to create movement so they can [...]
Tags: capulet communications, communication, email, julie szabo, perpsective, psychology, social media, twitter
Need a laugh? Check out five funny recruiting resources in this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Humor & comedy
Whether you’re under the magnifying glass being sussed out for a new position or the one holding the magnifying glass, recruitment is a big issue these days. Recruiting is expensive and mistakes more so. Need a chuckle as you sort out your recruiting headaches? Here are five resources guaranteed to give you a giggle (including [...]
Tags: dilbert, hiring, humour, interview questions, recruitment
Got big shoes to fill? Check out three recruiting resources in this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources
Whether you’re under the magnifying glass being sussed out for a new position or the one holding the magnifying glass, recruitment is a big issue these days. Recruiting is expensive and mistakes more so. Got big shoes to fill? Check out this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. e-newsletter for three recruiting resources: MindTool’s InBox/In-Tray Assessment – aimed [...]
Tags: catherine vanalstine, mintool, odgers berndtson, recruitment
Recruitment tips from one of the largest executive search firms in the world, Odgers Berndtson
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources
Whether you’re under the magnifying glass being sussed out for a new position or the one holding the magnifying glass, recruitment is a big issue these days. Recruiting is expensive and mistakes more so. For this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. e-newsletter I invited Catherine VanAlstine, Executive Recruiter, and Partner with Odgers Berndtson, a global executive search [...]
Tags: catherine vanalstine, executive search, odgers berndtson, recruitment
10 tips for trainers part two: avoiding hairy, naked guys
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Human resources, training & development
This is part two of 10 tips for trainers. See part one here. It’s my gift to you the day after my birthday. I figured as I don’t have to wait until Christmas to open gifts why should you. 6. Avoid the hairy, naked guy; part A when we’re stressed our brains aren’t primed for [...]
Tags: ah ha, curiousity, group groan, self-care, story, storytelling, stress, training tips
I’m listening … to you
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources
It’s been just over a year since my first blog post (My first African nocturnal visitor) and I thought I’d offer an ear up to hear your thoughts about my blog. What do you like? Not like? Want more of? Want less of? I invite you to take 5 minutes (or less) for 5 questions [...]
Tags: customer service, feedback, life lenses, survey