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
Leaving behind Tim Hortons at the Olympics
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness
This is the view that greets me most mornings as I start my volunteer shift as a NOC assistant for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Tim Hortons on the sidelines. Cups of caffeine left behind, lined up along the garbage can, as we weave our way through security into the athlete’s village. No liquids allowed. There’s [...]
Tags: 2010 olympics, celebrate, change management, olympics, perspective, routine, tim hortons, time, vancouver
My extended quirky to do list part 3 – what to continue doing
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication
Continuing the spirit of New Year’s reflection, my last 2 posts described an extended, quirky to-do list tool that I use in my corporate training (click here to download a copy for you to use). It has 5 parts: – to do, to continue doing, to stop doing, to not do, to done (the last [...]
Tags: change management, dance, lady gaga, learning, new year, pounds, time, to do, weight loss, wild time
My Extended, Quirky To Do List part 2
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication
In my last post I described an extended, quirky to do list tool that I use in my corporate training (click here to download a copy for you to use). It has 5 parts: – to do – to continue doing – to stop doing – to not do – to done I also promised [...]
Tags: change management, learning, space wild todo list schedule jennifer lopez loud booty, time, training & development
The Jungle Called ‘Teenagedom’
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Humor & comedy
How did I get to the middle without realizing I was on the edge? How did I enter this quagmire of parenting a teen without realizing what I was headed towards? Did I miss the signs? Is it like the odd time I missed using a box of hand me down clothes because my kid [...]
Tags: change management, edge, jungle, learning, parenting, questions, teen, teenage, time, youth
What’s your biological age? And does it match your passport?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness
It’s my birthday today. I’m 44 according to my passport. Biologically though I’m 39 or so realage.com says. Real age is all about “living life to the youngest” and has the backing of Dr. Oz who sits on their advisory board. Harness a bit of patience, go the website, answer all sorts of questions about [...]
Tags: age, aging, birthday, change management, Dr. Oz, passport, real age, time, youth
What grows in the in-between time?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Travel
A good friend just moved to Scotland. My monthly dancing ‘date’ in fact. As I thought about her during the weekend of her trans-Atlantic move and pondered heading out to the dance floor on my own, I wondered about in-between time. During a big move there’s a time when one has no electronic connections. Land [...]
Tags: in-between, scotland, time, wild time
A wild time in pictures
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
I recently wrote a post about wild time. Wild time and the wilderness have much in common, they’re both “everlasting, undefined, unenclosed, unnamed, a mystery”. Here’s what everyday can feel like. Here’s what wild time can feel like. I drew this in my journal on my recent trip to Africa. Which do you choose?
Wild time
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Travel
In recent posts I’ve been writing about time and some mighty interesting Utne Reader articles on time. Whether we’re more important than our appointment book, how to expand time, living on Tokyo time and the politics of spontaneity. Now it’s time for some wild time. Jay Griffiths in this excellent article of the same name [...]
Tags: jay griffiths, Jay Walljasper, lynnika butler, stephan rechtschaffen, time, utne reader, wild time
When it comes to time is spontaneity political?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last three posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper, Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time and Lynnika Butler’s article [...]
Tags: africa, change management, dyana valentine, Jay Walljasper, leda dederich, lynnika butler, overcommitment, politics of spontaneity, rps, skype, stephan rechtschaffen, time, tokyo, utne reader