Witness the demise of prejudice
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Humor & comedy
Tags: children, homophobia, learning, ping pong, prejudice
What’s making that noise? Learning in a heartbeat
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
I was teaching a Workshops that Work workshop a while back, where I was training subject matter experts how to teach. It’s one of my favourite workshops because you just never know what kind of subject matter experts are going to show up and I always end up learning a little about a wide variety [...]
Tags: learning, workshops that work
Are you all hat & no cattle? asks John Rich
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
Ok. I freely (somewhat abashedly) admit. I’m a reality show junkie. During the recent run of Celebrity Apprentice county singer and contestant John Rich (who knew they made country singers so dang cute?) was overheard saying … Are you all hat and no cattle? Love it. When it comes to training & development how’s your [...]
Tags: humour, john rich, learning, zone, zone of proximal development
Learning can be stressful – throwing learning to the dogs
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, training & development
If stress can cause this kind of physical response in dogs imagine what a nervous learner can be suffering! Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially [...]
Tags: learning, self-esteem, stress, stress response, thomas szasz
How you teach is how you do everything – part 7: an end to learning
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, the queens of TeachNow. The essence of the post is an 8 point outline of what it does and doesn’t mean to teach with heart and soul. I liked their post [...]
Tags: jen louden, learning, learning and development, michele lisenbury christensen, self-care, teachnow, training and development
What kind of learning can happen in a library with no books? Turns out a lot
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under training & development
I love learning. Soaking up learning from the wide variety of books I read and taking the odd continuing education course from time to time (right now I’m taking a mixed media course) are my idea of bliss. Forget Calgon, I don’t need no bubbles to carry me off to faraway places and new ways [...]
Tags: book learning, learning, library
“We are born with the capacity to hear, we must learn to listen” Miha Pogacnik
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, creativity & innovation, training & development, Travel
His arm flew, directing the bow in a wild and frenetic dance with the strings, while his chin hung onto the base of the violin for dear life. His hair looked like a bowl of fine spaghetti flying off in one direction, only to be pulled back in another with the rhythmic sway of his [...]
Tags: creativity, hearing, Institute for the development of Intercultural Relations through the Arts, learning, listening, Miha Pogacnik, training & development, WIN conference
Musty learning made new, Amsterdam style
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, training & development, Travel
I remember whiling away long, hot summer days as a child curled up in a corner of my local library. Feet tucked under me, I’d fold myself into a corner, head buried in a story. The musty smell of books and the dull, gray walls would be replaced by whatever adventure my mind had taken [...]
Tags: amsterdam, gerd junne, imagination, learning, library
The creme de la creme of learning
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, training & development, Travel
I’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip around Europe, speaking at the WIN conference in Paris, launching Life Lenses™, visiting old friends and meeting new ones. I spent one weekend in Scotland, in a tiny village near Stirling, where an old friend Tara Fenwick has started ProPEL, a “collaborative, multi-professional international network to promote research [...]
Tags: context, creme de la creme of learning, learning, life lenses, ProPEL, scotland, Stirling University, Tara Fenwick, training & development
Calling all carrots (one of the Life Lenses™ self-assessment)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Human resources, training & development
God is in the details (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) Do you love to create systems? Do you notice details that other miss? Do you have an uncanny ability to focus? Do you not like to leave things undone? If so, perhaps you’re a carrot or know someone else who is a carrot, one of [...]
Tags: feedback, learning, life lenses, self-assessment, training & development