The 4th annual To do, To stop doing & To’odle compilation
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
This blog post is taken from this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. newsletter. See the entire newsletter, including free, related resources here. Don’t receive our monthly newsletter? Whatsamatter you! Sign up here. It’s a new year, fresh with the smell of a new calendar, a fresh start, a clean page. At this time of year you may [...]
Tags: dan lewis, danielle laporte, hubspot, joanna oser, mike volpe, time management, to do, united nations
Training & development learning well November blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Conflict resolution, training & development
If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of November. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development [...]
Tags: alexandra trenfor, businessfriend, carl jung, Conflict resolution, creativity, culture code, drawing, element14, fast company, holly weeks, hubspot, intuition, jennifer bilec-sullivan, learning & development, mike volpe, perspective, rhonda marable, social consciousness, social media, steven fisher, united nations, warner brothers, yasmin joomraty
From Bureaucrats to Bandwidth, a Behind the Scenes Look at the Making of a United Nations Social Media Strategy
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
I’m headed to the Social Media Strategies Summit in London to present From Bureaucrats to Bandwidth, a Behind the Scenes Look at the Making of a United Nations Social Media Strategy with my lovely colleague Mohamed El Sioufi. By the time you’re reading this I’ll have just about touched down. I’ll let you know how [...]
Tags: social media, united nations
Training & development learning well October blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, creativity & innovation, training & development
If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of October. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development [...]
Tags: Anthony Trollope, bumpf, change, chimpanzee, creativity, culture, doug cress, email, emmanuel jal, god, humour, life lenses, perspective, united nations, wazimbo
3 lessons from a cheeky email – here’s the initial bumpf
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy, training & development
When I asked about information on the urban resilience index, I got this back from a UN colleague: ‘Here’s the initial bumpf.’ ‘Huh? What’s a bumpf,’ I thought. Here’s what he said when I asked… Bumpf (bumf, or bumph): It’s an expressive and pithy word for all the dross that comes in the mail. It’s [...]
Tags: bumpf, email, humour, united nations
A peek inside UNHABITAT training for Urban Youth Fund Grantees in Cairo
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, training & development
Hello from Cairo! I’ve just finished day 2 of 6 days of training for the UN. I’m revamping the UN LEL series curriculum for a youth audience & the training participants, from around the world, are participating in a gap & asset assessment to examine how youth can better engage with local leaders. I’m also [...]
Tags: cairo, communication, united nations
Suck or blow? Power surges & power vacuums
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
Waaaaay back when, when I used to do leadership training with youth, we’d sometimes play a game called suck & blow. It involved passing a playing card around a seated, circle of people, without using your hands, only by way of mouth to mouth. You could only pass the card by sucking in (holding the [...]
Tags: david tees, fred fisher, james macgregor burns, locally elected leadership, power, united nations
Speaking English kills you (& other ways evaluations can go sideways)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, training & development
Program evaluation can leave you feeling like you don’t know if you’re coming or going. I do a lot of program evaluation work because it’s often so painful for my clients that I’m eager to show how it can be done with ease & even creativity & humour. I was particularly proud to be asked [...]
Tags: program evaluation, sojo, united nations
There’s a 6 foot long green snake living in my banana tree
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, training & development, Travel
There’s a 6 foot long green snake living in the banana tree in my yard. So said my ‘friend’ Roman the other day while we were out walking the dogs. Trying not to faint, with eyebrows askance, I said ‘Really?’ ‘Sure,’ he says, ‘but don’t worry it’s utterly harmless.’ I was pretty sure he was [...]
Tags: humour, international development, kenya, privilege, self-awareness, united nations, wes darou
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