Training & development learning well March blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Humor & comedy, training & development
If you didn’t catch all the posts last month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of March. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development [...]
Tags: adde adesokan, bizarro, cartoon, charles duhigg, culture, dan piraro, divergent thinking, diversity, life lenses, lifehacker, perspective, power of habit, youtube
How do you experience your perspective, your life?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: Linh.Ngan I spend a lot of time thinking about perspective. How do you see the world? How does it compare to how I see the same world? Our perspective is framed by our cultures, including our gender, age, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, religious/spiritual beliefs, where we live (urban/rural), where [...]
Tags: culture, perspective
Charlie’s Chocolate Factory – finding a neighbour 14,354 km away
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
The strangest coincidences happen when you’re far, far from home. Like when I was on safari recently in Kenya and met THE Charlie of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory. Charlie is somewhat of a local legend & meeting him & his wife in person was a sweet treat (pun intended). Charlie’s Chocolate Factory is a family-owned and [...]
Tags: culture, difference, kenya, similarity
Training & development learning well October blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, creativity & innovation, training & development
If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of October. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development [...]
Tags: Anthony Trollope, bumpf, change, chimpanzee, creativity, culture, doug cress, email, emmanuel jal, god, humour, life lenses, perspective, united nations, wazimbo
Resources on culture, change & creativity, from an interview with Mozambican musician Wazimbo
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Diversity & culture
In this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors’ newsletter I interview Mozambican treasure, the musician Wazimbo & get his thoughts on culture, change & creativity. (That’s him above.) In this second blog post, I’ve included some resources related to the themes in our interview, including creativity, change, advice & more. Read the entire newsletter here or download a hard copy [...]
Tags: change, creativity, culture, wazimbo
Culture, change & creativity, an interview with Mozambican musician Wazimbo
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
In this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors’ newsletter I interview Mozambican treasure, the musician Wazimbo & get his thoughts on culture, change & creativity. (That’s he & I above.) Stay tuned for the next blog post where I’ll share some resources related to those themes, both serious & tongue in cheek. Read the entire newsletter here or download a [...]
Tags: change, creativity, culture, emmanuel jal, wazimbo
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
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
What is culture? 5 ways people from different countries learn differently (& 5 ways we all learn the same)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Travel
There will always misinterpretations of culture (like the photo above). I’ve done training & development work in Canada, the U.S., India, the Philippines, the Arctic, Japan, Mexico, Kenya, Saskatchewan, Uganda, Tanzania, Brazil, Spain, France, China and soon, Egypt with workshop participants from more than 80 countries. Currently I’m living & working in Kenya. As a [...]
Tags: authority, cross culture communication, culture, environment, gender, informal learning, power, transfer of learning
Playing in the sandbox of perspective: who’s ‘ami’ are we talking about?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
I laughed myself silly when I saw the video below. Count the times the guy says ‘Miami’. I’ll save you some time – it’s 6. It takes him 6 times to put himself in the little girl’s shoes or rather sandbox. Interestingly she gets it right off – she automatically puts herself in his place. [...]
Tags: cross-cultural, culture, diversity, perspective