Great trainers are great adapters
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
Tags: adaptation, adapting, change management, learning & development, mimic octopus, training & development
World famous mountain climber Catherine Destivelle celebrates carrots AND mountains
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Training & development
Can you imagine dangling from a few thousand meters up a mountain, alone, in the middle of winter? Catherine Destivelle can. She’s one of the “most adventurous and exciting female climbers in the world today.” When I saw her speak at the W.I.N. conference in Paris I was struck by how her laser attention to […]
Tags: carrot lens, catherine destivelle, either or thinking, life lenses, mountain lens, W.I.N.
Do you recognize this sound? It’s the sound of change
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
Ahh the sound of change. A similar clip was played by Graeme Codrington of tomorrowtoday.uk.com at the recent W.I.N. conference in Paris. While he was playing the clip his 11 year old daughter walked into the room and asked what it was. I can guarantee you that my 9 and 13 year old kids wouldn’t […]
Tags: change, danielle laporte, delicious, dyana valentine, Educational technology, Graeme Coddrington, Instructional Technology, Paris, presentation software, prezi.com, social book marking, Tara Fenwick, Tomorrowtoday, WIN conference
Elegant lessons about not holding on
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
From Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo’s hands comes the gorgeous traditional Tibetan textile piece pictured above. Equally illuminating is the quote beside it. ‘We don’t have to let go, we simply have to not hold on’ by Joseph Goldstein. I love sayings that get to the heart of things. That pack an international journey into one suitcase. That […]
Tags: buddhism, buddhist, business, joseph goldstein, leslie rinchen-wongmo, Management, tibetan
The pros and cons of training stubborness, from a baboon’s point of view
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
As a trainer you’re likely passionate about your content matter (if you’re not, uh, maybe you shouldn’t be teaching it). You probably have tried and true methods that you’re confident in and killer hip pocket activities that you have at the ready. Great! Really. These are good signs of being assertive, on track and stubborn […]
Tags: change management & wellness, stubborn, training & development
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
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 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
When should I get a girlfriend says my 9 year old; identifying & escaping boxed in thinking
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication
I was looking forward to this past weekend. Really looking forward to it. Both my husband and oldest kid were out of town, leaving some precious 1:1 time with my youngest. After dropping off my oldest at the ferry terminal to visit his grandparents my youngest and I headed back to the van, hand in […]