Training & development learning well December blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility, training & development
December is about to bid farewell & with that, usher in a new year. 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 the learning well or take a small sip. [...]
Tags: africa, communication, evaluation, holidays, hope, inspiration, ladysmith black mambazo, perspective, rock.paper.scissors newsletter, social change, twitter
It’s a jungle out there- training & development African style
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
Going on weekend safaris are par for the course living here in Kenya & with it comes learning about African wildlife. I’m borrowing from some of the most amazing animals here & applying it to training & development. Come on a training & development safari with me. Gazelles can leap up to 3 metres. That [...]
Tags: africa, praxis, self-care, training & development
What ironing underwear can teach you about learning
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, training & development
If you’re a regular ready you’ll know that I’ve recently moved to Africa. My learning curve is wonderfully curly and curious. Take ironing underwear for instance. I am fortunate enough to have house help. My clothes are washed, dried and ironed for me. Even my underwear. Ironed. Back home, my ‘ironing’ would consist of hanging [...]
Tags: africa, culture, learning, perspective, teaching
An older woman who dares sounds a lot like a fantastic trainer
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, training & development
A post by my new friend Sam made me think about how the qualities of an older woman who dares are similar to the qualities of a trainer who dares (indented parallel bits are mine, the rest is Sam’s). An older woman who dares A trainer who dares Is eager to explore the unknown. Is [...]
Tags: africa, dare, daring, first, older women, program evaluation united nations, sam crespi, tanzania buffalo, trainer, training & development, uganda
My extended quirky to do list part 6 – my to done’s
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, Travel
My last 5 posts describe an extended, quirky to-do list tool that I use in my corporate training (click here to download a copy for you to use). It has 5 parts: (I love that out of the 5 categories only two are about adding things. Can we collectively breath a sigh of relief?) – [...]
Tags: accomplishment, africa, british columbia, celebration, change management, danielle laport, e-series, forum for women entrepreneurs, kool and the gang, learning, nairobi, skiing, tanzania, training & development, uganda, united nations, white hot truth
My extended quirky to do list part 5 – what not to do
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication
Continuing the spirit of New Year’s musing, my last 4 posts describe an extended, quirky to-do list tool that I use in my corporate training (click here to download a copy for you to use). It has 5 parts: (I love that out of the 5 categories only two are about adding things. Can we [...]
Tags: 4 hour work week, africa, brussel sprouts, change management, don't be stupid, new year, reosolution, shania twain, television, tim ferris, to do, tv
Perspective & the Problems of Privilege
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
The house is a mess. The kids have been watching too much TV. I’ve been eating too much Christmas chocolate. The effects of Christmas (a.k.a. gift wrap, decorations, gifts, extra food) are strewn around the house like land bound flotsam and jetsam. I’m feeling argumentative and frustrated and out of sorts. I’m feeling stressed because [...]
Tags: africa, calgon, Christmas, commercial, perspective, privilege, problems
A wild time in pictures
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
I recently wrote a post about wild time. Wild time and the wilderness have much in common, they’re both “everlasting, undefined, unenclosed, unnamed, a mystery”. Here’s what everyday can feel like. Here’s what wild time can feel like. I drew this in my journal on my recent trip to Africa. Which do you choose?
When it comes to time is spontaneity political?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last three posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper, Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time and Lynnika Butler’s article [...]
Tags: africa, change management, dyana valentine, Jay Walljasper, leda dederich, lynnika butler, overcommitment, politics of spontaneity, rps, skype, stephan rechtschaffen, time, tokyo, utne reader
This thing called time: Tokyo time
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last two posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper and Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time. In the same [...]
Tags: africa, japan, Jay Walljasper, lynnika butler, stephan rechtschaffen, time, utne reader