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
Training & development learning well September blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
September passed in a blur and you missed out on some Rock.Paper.Scissors’ blog posts? No worries. Here they are – laid out like a picnic for your perusing – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for the month of September below. Learn well in the training [...]
Tags: access and inclusion, creativity, harpaul sambhi, innovation, jessica fraser, mobile movement, resilience, social media
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
A participant’s edit to a workshop activity leads to an innovative new twist
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, training & development
It’s one of those iffy training exercises. Asking a North American audience to use their bodies to form a picture is risky. Eyebrows tend to head north. Question marks (or the equivalent, #$@#$!) dance above participant’s heads. We North Americans, especially corporate North America tend to divide our brain from the rest of our body. [...]
Tags: creativity, moving pictures, participant led design, teachnow, workshop desing
A guide to learning via splattered bug guts
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, training & development
I don’t like pumping gas. I always get impatient. I’m not really sure why as it doesn’t take all that long to fill up my gas tank but nonetheless it’s a task I don’t like. That’s why, when filling up on a road trip recently, I was delighted to find a reason to chuckle as [...]
Tags: creativity, innovation
How you teach is how you do everything – part 2: be brave & bold
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
‘How you teach is how you do everything’ is the title of a recent blog post written by Jen Louden and Michele Lisenbury Christensen, which I think is hands down, one of the most eloquent pieces on teaching I’ve read in a long time. The post covers 8 points about teaching, which I’m following up [...]
Tags: confidence, creativity, jen louden, michele lisenbury christensen, self-care, teachnow