How do you like your learning – with or without olives?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Diversity & culture, training & development
Being in Istanbul, Turkey to do a program evaluation training on behalf of the United Nations naturally means eating a Turkish breakfast. This morning I found myself musing about learning over olives. Yes olives. I was watching the pile of uneaten olives grow on the plates of my breakfast mates. David Muthami, a music producer [...]
Tags: david muthami, Diversity & culture, learning, learning atmosphere, learning content, learning styles, messengers of truth, sara mitaru, turkey
Assess your perspective & find your blind spots (all without visiting the eye doctor)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources, training & development
We all have 20/20 vision …. in some areas, just as we all have blind spots … in other areas. Do you know yours? The challenge is how to identify where we shine and where we’re blind. By the time you’ve begun reading this you’ve already been faced with an onslaught of sensory input. Everything [...]
Tags: assessment, Diversity & culture, dyana valentine, life lenses, perspective
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