Putting fun and evaluation in the same sentence
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources
Evaluation terminology is enough to make you want to hide your head in the nearest toilet. And flush. Program logic models, median, mean, outcomes, indicators, activities, outputs, baseline, denominators, dissemination, focus groups, inductive, deductive and the list goes on (and on and on). Yet, program evaluation can be incredibly valuable and necessary. I’m teaching a […]
Tags: activities, baseline, deductive, denominators, dissemination, evaluation, focus groups, indicators, inductive, learning, mean, median, outcomes, outputs, program evaluation, Program logic models, training & development, united nations
Business or pleasure? Why do we have to choose?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation, Human resources
“Business or pleasure?,” said the guy who was sitting beside me on a recent flight. “Business,” I replied. But I got to thinking. What does that say about business? That it can’t be pleasurable? That we can’t have fun or have ease when we’re working? Let’s face it, the old adage ‘put your nose to […]
Tags: business, danielle laporte, Galcos Soda Pop Stop, grindstone, John Nese, learning, white hot truth
Viagra, sex tapes, clarithromycin – 6 reasons why spam works (unfortunately)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Social Responsibility
“Viagra, sex tapes, lesbian dating in cleveland complaints against adult dating sites. Clarithromycin is a macrolide antibiotic. It is cast-off to regale multifarious kinds of infections.” Say what? If you blog you’ll no doubt recognize these as spam comments. Before I got a spam filter I was getting up to 80 spam comments a day […]
Tags: akismet, blog, blogging, captchas, learning, outsourcing, permission marketing, productivity, spam, spammers
White Hot Truth with Danielle LaPorte
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation
On the eve of launching her new Firestarter Session e-book I sat down with good friend and colleague Danielle LaPorte, of White Hot Truth fame to interview her. Hang onto your fire poker and as we go with the Q &A. Q: For those who aren’t already in the know, who are you and what […]
Tags: creativity & innovation, danielle laport, e-book, entrepreneurship, fire starter, forum for women entrepreneurs, white hot truth
Looking up and out, not just down and in
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication, Human resources
Ever get your head so far buried in your work that you forget to look up and out? Up for new ideas? Out for new ways to connect? Read on for a simple way of harnessing technology for good, that is to reach out and up. Having your head down, your office door shut and […]
Tags: creativity & innovation, dyana valentine, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, ichat, jodi womack, learning, no more nylons
Business lessons from coffeemeister George Moen of Blenz
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources
George Moen, the President of Blenz, recently spoke to a group I belong to, the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs E-series program, and as I chuckled through his engaging presentation, I learned these four lessons about business. 1. Look to your roots When George was a wee lad of 11 he managed to get a gaggle […]
Tags: blenz, coffee, creativity & innovation, e-series, entre, entrepreneurship, forum for women entrepreneurs, george moen, starbucks
The road to success may be under construction but you should always be the site foreman
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness
Danielle Wilson, the smart and savvy President and Founder of Sweet Peanut Clothing Company suggests “we should know what our picture of success looks like. We should know what we want and then build a picture of what that looks like.” I really tuned in when she walked her talk by relating how she’d turned […]
Tags: change management, danielle wilson, e-series, forum for women entrepreneurs, fwe, learning, success, sweet peanut clothing
How to make a fan out of a fan; creative marketing ideas
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication, Travel
Imagine being in 28 degrees Celsius / 82 degrees Fahrenheit weather and it’s only 8 am. Your shirt is already sticking to your back and you can feel the sweat sliding down your spine like some amusement park ride gone wild. As you make your way to the first day of a business conference you […]
Tags: brazil, learning, marketing, permission marketing, rio de janeiro, seth godin, ship, united nations, world urban forum
How to start a social movement: leadership lessons from dancing guy
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
In my past post I wrote about how dance can be used as metaphor for getting into your work flow, your zone. Dance can be used for other things too. Such as how to start a social movement. Malcolm Gladwell talks about the things that need to happen to ‘tip’ it into mainstream society in […]
Tags: dance, derek sivers, flow, follower, leader, leadership, malcolm gladwell, social movement, tipping point
Finding your flow, your work zone through dance
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources
“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we should dance” (anonymous). I happen to LOVE to dance so this is a no brainer for me. Shaking it on the dance floor from time to time does more for my stress level than a week at a spa. I […]
Tags: all i ever needed to know, business strategy, change management, creativity & innovation, dance, finding your tribe, marcus buckingham, robert fulghum, seth godin, the truth about you, tribe, zone