Make time to fall, fail and flounder
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Human resources
Do you have something that you want to delegate but are holding back because it’s going to be tough? Need to hire but putting it off because orientation will take too long? I recently hired a VA (Virtual Assistant). I’d been wanting to do this for a long time but had held back because I […]
Tags: delegate, delegating, Get Friday, hiring, planning, VA, virtual assistant
Take a deep breath & remember to exhale
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness
To get the things you’ve never had Do the things you’ve never done (Sign posted in a store I visited while at a community festival today.) If you define ‘things’ beyond just stuff this is powerful. It’s also timely. I’m embarking on some radical new learning for some new business goals. Most of the time […]
Tags: business, Business & organizational development, change management, creativity & innovation, leap of faith, learning
What we adults can learn from kids on how to stay positive & not set limits for ourselves
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation, Human resources
Look at the possibilities you’re missing. Set some time aside to think big. Bigger. There’ll be time later for evaluating, categorizing, weighing the pros and cons etc. For now don’t set any limits. Repeat. No limits. Sing to yourself. Move. Enjoy. Enough said.
Tags: attitude, creativity & innovation, learning, parenting, positive, possibilities, thinking big, training & development
4 simple steps for how to get dreams out of your head & into reality
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation, Human resources
Do you have a hard time getting dreams out of your head and into reality? Not sure what to do with inspiration when it hits mid-meeting or at midnight? While you may be able to come up with new ideas, what to do with the pesky, flighty fellows is a whole other matter. Based on […]
Tags: 2020 communications, assumptions, Business & organizational development, business strategy, crave, creativity & innovation, danielle laporte, dream, excel, foam core, heather white, langara college, light pen, planning, post it notes, vision, vision board, white hot truth, work plan, workplan
Chuck the flotsam & jetsam so you can see beyond the horizon
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness
Love this ad, love what it captures. Today looms large but not so much tomorrow or the long term prospects. Where’s your focus? Likely it’s barely beyond the tip of your nose. On today. With all the flotsam and jetsam of today’s frenetic life we have to jettison the garbage in order to focus inward […]
Tags: change management & wellness, focus, perspective, vision
What do women want?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation
Good question. Turns out it’s not big, burly men to help carry our parcels to the car. Best Buy was trying to increase sales to women. They hired a male consultant (go figure) who said the answer lay in hiring beefy male employees. Didn’t work (surprise surprise). What did work? Asking their female employees to […]
Tags: best buy, female consumers, learning, marketk share, peter sheahan, women consumers
Kick the rabbit in the butt & suspend disbelief – it’ll lead to breakthroughs
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation
Can you walk on water? These guys can. Check out the video below to see how they do it. “You have to believe … it’s not impossible.” “We’re discovering it as we go along.” Some of it “was by mistake.” “It takes a lot of practice.” “If you fall down try again.” All words of […]
Tags: breakthrough, change management, creativity & innovation, disbelief, extreme sport, learning, liquid mountaineering, walking on water
What does it take to win Olympic gold in women’s ski cross?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
On the last day of the Every Woman conference I got to listen to Ashleigh McIvor, the first Olympic gold winner of the women’s ski cross at the recent Winter Olympics. She’s tall and lithe and she had some surprising things to say. How often do you think she thought about winning gold? Would it […]
Tags: ashleigh mcivor, change management, creativity & innovation, every woman, olympics, vancouver, winter olympics, women's ski cross
What does it take to say ‘good job’?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources
I was shopping in Costco yesterday and saw the above sign on a cash register. At the bottom of the sign was written ‘Great job everyone! Let’s keep those sales up!!!!’ What’s wrong with this picture? Certainly not endeavouring to raise money for a good cause. Certainly not spurring each other on by keeping track […]
Tags: costco, creativity & innovation, employee development, motivation, motivational, training & development
Shiny Object Syndrome – why it’s hard to tell the difference between styrafoam and gold
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
What does a teenage run away, Buddhist monk, Geisha girl and Bill Gates have in common? They’re all connected to Christine Comaford whom I heard speak recently at the BCHRMA annual conference. Don’t know her? Here’s some background: she ran away at 16 she’s a high school and college drop out she was a Buddhist […]
Tags: 4 hour work week, alexandra samuel, BCHRMA, christine comaford, creativity & innovation, four hour work week, oprah, strategic, strategy