‘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
Training & development learning well October blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Human resources, training & development
October has come and gone with goblins galore. If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply cast a spell and click below. Here they are – laid out like a well carved pumpkin for your perusing – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for [...]
Tags: change, change management, engagement, learning, learning curve, learning domains, social media, training & development
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
Perspective and mamahood; how does your perspective affect your training?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
As a trainer our perspectives changes – depending on who we’re working with, what subject matter we’re teaching, how we’re feeling that day, our energy level and a million other things. We think we’re neutral and objective but we’re not. We’re biased. Way biased. We see things as only we see them. We see things [...]
Tags: learning, mamahood, perspective
What ironing underwear can teach you about learning
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, training & development
If you’re a regular ready you’ll know that I’ve recently moved to Africa. My learning curve is wonderfully curly and curious. Take ironing underwear for instance. I am fortunate enough to have house help. My clothes are washed, dried and ironed for me. Even my underwear. Ironed. Back home, my ‘ironing’ would consist of hanging [...]
Tags: africa, culture, learning, perspective, teaching
My Kenyan deep dive into delight- part 3 of 3 Learning Kenyan style
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, training & development, Travel
I wholeheartedly identify with the little goldfish above. It was time for adventure, for embracing something bigger. So what did I do? I moved to Kenya naturally, to continue and expand on my training and development work. This is the third in series of posts, with four more things I’ve been learning since I touched [...]
Tags: international development, kenya, learning, literacy
Through the learning / looking glass – 7 things my reading glasses have taught me about learning
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
Reading glasses are a relatively new acquisition for me. They’re never far from my side these days. In fact I’m wearing them as I type this (that’s me above). Given my focus on learning, I figure my specs have taught me a few things about learning: Lesson number 1: don’t reinvent the wheel (or frame), [...]
Tags: learning, reading glasses, Tara Fenwick