4 Best Apps for Team Collaboration via Mashable
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
Check out this Mashable post for the full list of 8 Best Apps for Team Collaboration. Here’s my take on four of them. Do you have any to add? Have you used any of the ones below? 1. Dropbox The quintessential app for file-sharing and document collaboration. Through Dropbox, you can share PDFs, files and […]
Tags: apps, dropbox, flow, google, mashable, skitch
Sisi ni Amani means We are Peace in Swahili- tidbits from this group’s recent retreat
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
I’ve had more adventures in my life than one person has a right to expect. I’ve sailed around the world on a ship while going to university. I’ve worked in -72 degree weather (the Canadian Arctic) & +44 degree weather (Calcutta). I live in Africa. What I hadn’t done, until now, is work with the […]
Tags: humour, moving pictures, sisi ni amani, training & development
Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Teambuilding
The quotes below are from McKinsey & Co – read the full article here. “After the tragic events of 9/11, a team of Harvard psychologists quietly “invaded” the US intelligence system. The team, led by Richard Hackman, wanted to determine what makes intelligence units effective. By surveying, interviewing, and observing hundreds of analysts across 64 […]
Tags: mckinsey & co, team building
‘The little chart that will change your life’ compliments of Stephen Covey
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
Every since I learned about Stephen R. Covey’s 4 quadrant time management grid I’ve been enamoured. The grid falls along two axis – things that are either urgent or not urgent & things that are either important or not. From that falls the four quadrants, which here they are re-visited. See where you spend most […]
Tags: stephen covey, time management
Training & development learning well May blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication, Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
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 May. 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: allie brosh, communication, curiousity, google, Human resources, hyperbole and a half, ihrm, learning, pain, sara bakata, seth godin, social media, sunday nation
Not A Happy Accident: How Google Deliberately Designs Workplace Satisfaction
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
I love getting updates from Fast Company. Not heard of them? Their articles are chock-a-block full of creative, current content. Like this one. Check out my summary below &/or click on the link for the full articlie. Not A Happy Accident: How Google Deliberately Designs Workplace Satisfaction “What few in business know is that Google […]
Tags: google
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
We leak our Life Lenses™ – even with our computer bags
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
My (Carrot Life Lens™) approach: gleefully I dove into finding new homes for my things, creating new systems, organizing and tucking away with utter satisfaction. My partner’s (Mountain Life Lens™) approach: harumphing, he reluctantly transferred things over. It was a chore. Not fun. He wanted it done and over. While the pictures above aren’t of […]
Tags: life lenses
What frames your view? A Life Lenses™ take on provocative video
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources, Humor & comedy
Is the video below funny, creative, rule breaking and subversive or a waste of time, waste of energy and sadly pathetic? Depends on your view. Depends on how you frame things. A Carrot Life Lens™ appreciates the attention to detail. A Mountain Life Lens™ likes the strategy. A Destination Life Lens™ approves getting it done. […]
Tags: humour, organizational culture
25 years of cataloguing 137,000 Moghul documents
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
Since 1961 a team has been hard at work in India cataloguing 137,000 documents from the Moghul era (Moghuls are descendants of Genghis Khan). The team has dwindled in size to only 4, because there are only 4 people who can read them. In an article in the Globe & Mail Stephanie Nolen says “It […]
Tags: document, knowledge management