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
Training & development learning well November blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict resolution, training & development
November has wrapped her winds around the last of the leaves, making way for December and all its celebrations. If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply blow through the list below and click as you wish. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or [...]
Tags: brain based learning, change management, confict resolution, icebreaker, life lenses, perspective, social media, team building, technical requirements, workplace learning
How to walk in another’s shoes or rather horseshoes
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Diversity & culture
I’m fascinated by blinders. By recognizing the blinders we wear. The filters that affect our perception, our ability to communicate and relate. So much so that I developed an assessment to identify your blinders called Life Lenses™. It’s hard enough to relate to that annoying co-worker who doesn’t see things ‘your’ way or your boss [...]
Tags: blinders, Dolly Hopkins, life lenses, perspective
Oceans of opportunities open up with perspective game changer
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, training & development
As training and development professionals we’re all about perspective. Enhancing, expanding, illuminating, uncovering, adapting, enlarging and shaking it up. We are perspective changers and we can learn a thing or two about how to do it from this conundrum. What do you do if you want to play soccer but you live in a village [...]
Tags: life lenses, perspective, soccer
No better way to learn about your own cultural training & development roots than to immerse yourself in another
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, training & development
Have you entered the cultural training & development contest yet and grabbed a chance of winning a free Life Lenses assessment? No? What are you waiting for – deadline is June 15th. As I mentioned in a previous post watching out for too-near hippos by night and too-curious monkeys by day, I’ve been fortunate to [...]
Tags: body awareness, cultural elements, cultural intelligence, culture, formality informality, life lenses, physical space, time, united nations
Do First Nations people look you in the eye? More cultural lessons for training & development
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, training & development
Hot post title, no? Has it got you all up in arms? Good. Hang on, keep reading (there’s a contest with a cool prize to come)… A couple of my recent posts have been on cultural issues to consider when doing training and development. You can see them at the bottom of this post. I [...]
Tags: communication, communication continuum, first nations, intercultural, inuit, life lenses, perspective
How do you see success? A view from a clown & the Life Lenses™
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
I had my chuckle of the day when a client, from the organization called S.U.C.C.E.S.S no less, sent me the above cartoon. What’s your idea of success? It’s a perspective clearing question. Your aim is true and clear if you know what you value success-wise. Here are some lenses on success. Success from a Carrot [...]
Tags: carrot lens, destination lens, go lens, head lens, heart lens, journey lens, life lenses, mountain lens, randy glasbergen, stop lens, success
How do you cross the street? Depends on your perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
What could be easier than moving from one side of the street to the other? Look left Look right When there’s no oncoming traffic, cross the street Right? Not so fast. Crossing the street, like many other daily rituals in our lives, is influenced by that massive lens through which we see the world … [...]
Tags: culture, life lenses, perpsective
Don’t be a parrot or a human ventriloquist
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Employee retention
Ever get the sense you’re listening to a talking head, someone who is is parroting someone else’s words? Does your boss ever expect you to be a human ventriloquist with him or her pulling the strings and you voicing their stuff? Welcome to the world of unengaged employees. Of staff caught in a maze blindly [...]
Tags: engagement, life lenses, paul zerdin, perspective, self-assessment, ventriloquist
Easy, free planning tools to help you get the year you want
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~ John Lubbock Where I work & play, this time of year the daylight hours are short, the wind blows strong & the rain falls frequently (interspersed with the odd snowfall that brings the city to a standstill). It’s a time made for glancing back [...]
Tags: carrot lens, e-series, John Lubbock, learning resources, life lenses, mountain lens, planning, social media, social media benchmarking, strategic planning