Freedom for creativity? Freedom from creativity? Is this a playground or a jail?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation
Freedom? Restrictions? Limitations? Guidelines? Safety? Security? Sanctions? Sanctimonious? The signs surrounding the playground that swam by me as I jogged my way around Washington Square in New York City a while back got me thinking. Do we need rules to set us free? Is this a safe space within a jungle? Or is it a [...]
Tags: creativity, new york city, perspective
Training & development learning well December blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility, training & development
December is about to bid farewell & with that, usher in a new year. 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 the learning well or take a small sip. [...]
Tags: africa, communication, evaluation, holidays, hope, inspiration, ladysmith black mambazo, perspective, rock.paper.scissors newsletter, social change, twitter
Perspective – you can’t have it if your head is down
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Humor & comedy
Perspective. It’s what we miss when our head is down. …when we’re so focused on our Blackberry or IPhone that nothing else matters. …when we’re so focused on our next step that we don’t see an easier path ahead. It’s amazing what can happen to our perspective if we lift up our head and look. [...]
Tags: janitor, perspective, snow
Playing in the sandbox of perspective: who’s ‘ami’ are we talking about?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
I laughed myself silly when I saw the video below. Count the times the guy says ‘Miami’. I’ll save you some time – it’s 6. It takes him 6 times to put himself in the little girl’s shoes or rather sandbox. Interestingly she gets it right off – she automatically puts herself in his place. [...]
Tags: cross-cultural, culture, diversity, perspective
I’m selling my soul, are you?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Social Responsibility
I sold my soul. I sold my soul in New York City. I’m still selling my soul. I will always sell my soul. Perspective. It’s a tricky thing. It’s an intriguing thing. It can be a brick wall or a wide open window. The number one hit on ‘selling your soul’ is selling your soul [...]
Tags: danielle laporte, new york city, perspective, soul, Wellness
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 mountains & cantaloupes go together when it comes to the high view
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
After laughing out loud at this one, and firmly pushing back memories of ugh-inducing highschool algebra classes that threatened to emerge, the cartoon made me think of the lessons that cantaloupes a.k.a. Mountain Life Lenses™ have to teach us. On a bad day Carrot Life Lenses™ (Mountain’s polar opposite) can have their head buried in [...]
Tags: carrot lens, communication, mountain lens, perspective, worldview
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
How far away is the moon? It’s not what you think
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
Many things skew our perspective, how we see the world and how we teach. our culture assumptions that we make (and don’t question) marketing (if you don’t have product X you’ll be unhappy, fat, poor and unpopular) images that we’re used to seeing (and don’t question) Take the moon for example. How far is the [...]
Tags: assumptions, communication, perspective