Is it equal or is it equitable? There’s a big difference.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
A colleague from the UN gave me this cartoon. Whether I’m doing train the trainer training, talking about stages of group development or intercultural conflict resolution training, the difference between equality and equity comes up. Many people see them as the same thing (pun intended). They’re not. Equality is treating everyone the same. Equity is […]
Tags: diversity, equality, equity, life lenses, worldview
A perspective on gender identity
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
This image is from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. I think it speaks volumes. ‘nuf said. ~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: diversity, perspective, worldview
Training & development learning well June blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Humor & comedy, Training & development
If you didn’t catch all the posts last month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of June. 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: age, andy rooney, canada, culture, diversity, Diversity & culture, frank kaiser, mckinsey & co, perspective, stephen covey, team building, time management, training of trainers, united nations, worldview
What we Canadians have to be proud of
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
Photo Credit: kennymatic via Compfight cc Perspective comes & worldviews get enhanced when we bump up against ‘other.’ Finding similarities in ‘other’ makes us feel at home but it’s a risky business if we never venture out past our own doorstep. Here for your viewing pleasure is a different way to view us Canadians. It’s […]
Tags: canada, culture, perspective, worldview
Back to the future – what would your former self have to say about your current self
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
Irina Werning, a brilliant Buenos Aires photographer was inspired to ‘re-enact’ old photos of people. She asked friends and family to turn back time & have themselves photographed as they were in old pictures. The ongoing project is called “Back to the Future.” It got me thinking …. what would your former self have to […]
Tags: irina werning, worldview
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
There are years that ask questions and years that answer
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Diversity & culture
In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God author Zora Neale Hurston writes there were years that ask questions and years that answer. Besides being a sentence that made me jolt to a stop and ponder, it’s a great way to frame the new year. Which will it be for you? Which worldview will broaden […]
Tags: answers, perspective, questions, their eyes were watching god, worldview, zora neale hurston
Time for audience participation (that means you): we see what we expect to see
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
I love traveling by train so when I found myself on the platform in Amsterdam looking for the right platform I was like a kid looking forward to an ice cream cone on a hot summer’s day. (The fact that I was headed to Paris didn’t hurt either.) Despite a well-organized system though I couldn’t […]
Tags: John Lubbock, life lenses, perspective, telus, thalys, worldview
The view from Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter) on a bad, very bad day
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Training & development
The word’s aflutter with the release of the new Harry Potter movie, which made my kids take the opportunity to watch a previous version, specifically the Order of the Phoenix. We were all snuggled up in bed watching when it occurred to me that the character Dolores Umbridge is a great example of a worldview, […]
Tags: delores umbridge, harry potter, learning & development, life lenses, perspective, worldview
Fray or fringe worldview; you can choose
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict resolution, Creativity & innovation
Recently I wrote a post about how to look at the edges of a carpet as a metaphor for life. You know the bits of a carpet that aren’t neatly sewn up but rather hang there loosely at the edges? Do you see those bits as fray – as messy, a nuisance and unorganized? Or […]
Tags: change management, change management & wellness, creativity & innovation, learning, perspective, worldview