Insatiable – the good, the bad, the ugly (a la Seth Godin)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: kevin dooley Seth Godin wrote an interesting post called insatiable (see below). As his posts often do, it got me thinking. I think he got it wrong. Yes, insatiability can lead to all things nasty if it means a never ending dissatisfaction &/or an unquenchable greed. But what if [...]
Tags: curiousity, learning, seth godin
Training & development learning well September blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under 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 September. 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: communication, creativity, humour, learning, life lenses, miranda july, misunderstanding, motivation, salon alpin, the frantics, time management
A forgotten bookmark & the 7 chapters of life
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, training & development, Travel
A forgotten bookmark in a dusty, old book, takes a chance, & well, magic happens. Like rediscovering an old friend, colleague or first love. Like rediscovering a love for learning, an appetite for adventure, a yearning for travel. Like thriving in the fast paced, complex, changing environment that surrounds us. Check out the captivating video [...]
Tags: learning, motivation, salon alpin
Training & development learning well July blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under 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 July. 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: africa, anita roddick, barbie, body shop, change management, dave ulrich, enthusiasm, gary brolsma, heath brothers, ihrm, journey lens, learning, liz paterson, mattel, memory, numa numa, organizational culture, perspective, public health, retention, sitting, switch, vonrestorff
Push for drama – the role of drama in learning & memory
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, training & development
Watching the unwitting people’s responses to the drama is almost as funny as the drama itself in the video below. Do we need more drama? Certainly drama captures our attention – like pigeons, with their notoriously bad eyesight, who subsequently bob their heads back & forth to create movement that literally captures their attention – [...]
Tags: learning, memory, retention, vonrestorff
We humans were built to learn. What have you learned lately?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, training & development
You don’t have to speak the language of the parent in this video to know that his kid wants to read. Badly. She’s mimicking what she’s seen around her. Because. Learning is innate. We humans were built to learn. Historically our survival depended on it. Today, our work depends on it, as does our health [...]
Tags: learning
‘A Maasai without their culture is like a zebra without its strips’ says my Maasai friend
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
‘A Maasai without their culture is like a zebra without its stripes,’ said Leteipa, our Maasai guide in the Mara for the last couple of days. The Mara (as the Maasai Mara) is known to locals here in Kenya is some 16,000 square kilometers. Loads of space for learning, musing & having a blast. I [...]
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
Learning enhancing yogurt
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
Learning. It’s possible to do it even in the wee hours of the morning. Before a ridiculously self-imposed early morning flight from New York to Vancouver this past fall I found myself grabbing the above yogurt for the plane ride. When I pulled it out to eat I was greeted with a delightful surprise. (Note [...]
Tags: learning, life lenses, story
It’s not my job & other reasons not to change (or learn)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness
I come across a lot of resistant folk in my line of work (training & development). This graphic, which I found on Doug Ragan’s facebook page, encapsulates resistance perfectly. I call resistance the ‘yes but, no but, rabbit’. As in: yes, but marketing will never go for it no, we don’t have enough time for [...]
Tags: change management, learning, resistance