What needs birthing by you? What needs midwifing?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
‘There are some types of victories that need to be midwifed, good things come from very far’ says Peninah, in response to a recent post of mine. Another reader Vera, recently wrote me about being intrigued with the magic & miracle of birth. Voila a theme plus an idea for a blog post. Birthing. Midwifing. […]
Tags: birthing, ideation, midwifing, planning tools, project management
“I tell it like it is as seen through my narrow view lens.” ~Tom Peters
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication
We all have lenses that influence what we see as important, what we pay attention to, what we take action on & what we ignore because we sense it’s unfamiliar, awkward, uncomfortable or simply not a priority. In my last post I talked about how a question my then boyfriend asked me led to […]
Tags: carrot lens, mountain lens, perspective, tom peters
Replacing the grinding & gnashing of teeth that technology can induce with some chortles
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication
If you’ve ever found yourself grinding your teeth during a conference call then prepare to chortle while relating to this short video below. I teach a course on using social media for learning & development purposes & one thing that most of my participants have in common is frustration with technology. It’s an inclusive club. […]
Tags: humour, social media, technology
5 apps to turn your smartphone into a personal assistant
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
I’ve been using a virtual assistant through Get Friday for years now. The cultural differences sometimes get us stuck (he works from India) but the efficiency makes for some kind of humming along. That’s why my interest was perked with this article reprinted below from Mashable. Check it out. Happy humming. 1. Google Now Word […]
Tags: ease, efficiency, Get Friday, mashable, personal assistant, virtual assistant
A tool for accessing, expanding, stretching & sharing your knowledge
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
How do you curate knowledge? How do you access it, expand it, stretch it, use it, share it? It’s tough in these days of volume overload where news headlines flash faster than my friend’s toddler can go from happy & calm to the world-is-ending-now. That’s why I was drawn to this article about a 6 […]
Tags: feedly, knowledge, productivity
HabitRPG- an app that combines productivity with gaming
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
Digital literacy. Digital divide. ICTs (Information Communication Technologies), MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Social Media, it’s enough to make your head spin. I’ve gleefully just dived into reading ‘Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out – Kids living & learning with new media’, which is why this Habit app caught my attention. HabitRPG is a […]
Tags: digital divide, digitial literacy, gaming, habits, productivity
Goals + Opportunities + Flexible Focus + Saying Yes + Saying No (one mom’s advice on her kid’s career days)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
What would you talk about if you were to give a talk at your kid’s school on career day? I was asked to give a talk at my kid’s school recently & here’s what I came up with: 1. Goals: have ’em 2. Opportunities: make ’em & take ’em 3. Flexible focus: focus like a […]
Tags: flexibility, focus, goals, opportunities
Studying entrepreneurship without doing it ….
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness
Studying entrepreneurship without doing it …is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it, says Seth Godin. The cost of setting up a lemonade stand (or whatever metaphorical equivalent you dream up) is almost 100% internal. Until you confront the fear and discomfort of being in the world and saying, “here, I made […]
Tags: entrepreneurship, perspective, seth godin
Is it the end of knowing? Here’s 13 Google Search Tricks That Make Life A Whole Lot Easier
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
While listening to a recent TED talk via NPR on Unstoppable Learning (do yourself a favour & listen, it’s terrific) Sugatra Mitra talks about how we may be heading into the age of not needing to ‘know’ things. He recommends we use what he calls S.O.L.E.’s (self-organized learning environments) to surf & learn. It’s got […]
Tags: google, npr, sugatra mitra, TED, unstoppable learning
Data visualization at its finest – building a bridge to knowledge from information
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation
Someone, somewhere once said ‘don’t confuse information with knowledge.’ Today’s world is rife with the former & not so much with the latter. At the click of a mouse anyone (with connectivity) can find out that last 3 presidents of any country, what the temperature will be this coming Saturday in any region of the […]
Tags: azri, data visualization, million voices