Training & development learning well March blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, training & development
Sit up, take notice & look back before looking forward to next month. 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. Shower [...]
Tags: assumptions, communication, complexity, culture, education, heath brothers, ignorance, maasai, risk management, shelby edwards, switch
Assumptions – an example for how to id & avoid them
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
Assumptions. We all make them. All the time. What’s worse is we’re usually unaware that we’re making them. Assumptions that is. They’re devilishly difficult to identify. They play with our heads and how we see what’s in front of our face and fortune. A great example of id’ing & avoiding assumptions is Melodie Biringer of [...]
Tags: assumptions, melodie biringer
How far away is the moon? It’s not what you think
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
Many things skew our perspective, how we see the world and how we teach. our culture assumptions that we make (and don’t question) marketing (if you don’t have product X you’ll be unhappy, fat, poor and unpopular) images that we’re used to seeing (and don’t question) Take the moon for example. How far is the [...]
Tags: assumptions, communication, perspective
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
Assumptions – those sneaky, sly fellows that wreak havoc
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Conflict resolution
I’m a huge fan of assumptions, or rather busting those sneaky, sly fellows before they have a chance to loom large. Making assumptions is the cause of a good deal of conflict, of misperceptions, of stereotyping and of generally mis-seeing our colleagues, companies and collective communities. As big a role as assumption making plays in [...]
Tags: assumptions, confict resolution, crave, melody biringer, perspective
4 simple steps for how to get dreams out of your head & into reality
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, creativity & innovation, Human resources
Do you have a hard time getting dreams out of your head and into reality? Not sure what to do with inspiration when it hits mid-meeting or at midnight? While you may be able to come up with new ideas, what to do with the pesky, flighty fellows is a whole other matter. Based on [...]
Tags: 2020 communications, assumptions, Business & organizational development, business strategy, crave, creativity & innovation, danielle laporte, dream, excel, foam core, heather white, langara college, light pen, planning, post it notes, vision, vision board, white hot truth, work plan, workplan
Cultural intelligence and the UN Rio World Urban Forum
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Conflict resolution, Diversity & culture, Social Responsibility, Travel
What’s your CQ? You may be familiar with IQ, social intelligence and emotional intelligence but the new kid on the block is cultural intelligence. I’m in Rio de Janiero, Brazil at the United Nations World Urban Forum. I’ve just finished doing a workshop on cultural intelligence, which is a combination of meta-cognition, skills and knowledge, [...]
Tags: assumptions, brazil, complexity, Conflict resolution, cultural intelligence, culture, heath, intelligence, intercultural, made to stick, united nations, world urban forum, worldview
Old men who wear hats are really bad drivers
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Humor & comedy
Say what?!?! Those exact words came out of a participant’s mouth during a training I was giving. The entire group agreed. Wholeheartedly. Emphatically. Vehemently. As strong as the moon’s pull is on the tides, their belief was unshakable. Seeing patterns in the waves of information we process every day is as common as craving ice [...]
Tags: assumptions, bad drivers, Diversity & culture, driving, generalizations, hats, old men, patterns, radar