Destination passion
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Diversity & culture, Social Responsibility
On this first day of 2010 I’m thinking about destinations. Specifically where we’re headed with hard work. Where our passion’s home port is. Where the fuel that fires us up leads us towards. With a bit of luck, a lot of hard work we get to find our passion, our element as Sir Ken Robinson […]
Tags: change management, choices, creativity & innovation, element, evil, good, ken robinson, learning, passion, privilege, questions, terrorism, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, wild time, wonder woman
Perspective & the Problems of Privilege
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
The house is a mess. The kids have been watching too much TV. I’ve been eating too much Christmas chocolate. The effects of Christmas (a.k.a. gift wrap, decorations, gifts, extra food) are strewn around the house like land bound flotsam and jetsam. I’m feeling argumentative and frustrated and out of sorts. I’m feeling stressed because […]
Tags: africa, calgon, Christmas, commercial, perspective, privilege, problems
Thanks for the gifts: grace under grit and reducing baggage
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Travel
‘Tis the season to sweat about gifts. What to buy for who. Bumping elbows in sardine packed malls is the norm. For many, later today recycling bins will be overflowing with torn gift wrap. Piles of gifts will have been opened. Stuffed stomachs will vie for space on couches equally stuffed with visiting family […]
Tags: baggage, change management, Christmas, Dolly Hopkins, Doug Ragan, Dr. Seuss, gifts, Marrakech, Oh the places you'll go
A wild time in pictures
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
I recently wrote a post about wild time. Wild time and the wilderness have much in common, they’re both “everlasting, undefined, unenclosed, unnamed, a mystery”. Here’s what everyday can feel like. Here’s what wild time can feel like. I drew this in my journal on my recent trip to Africa. Which do you choose?
Wild time
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Travel
In recent posts I’ve been writing about time and some mighty interesting Utne Reader articles on time. Whether we’re more important than our appointment book, how to expand time, living on Tokyo time and the politics of spontaneity. Now it’s time for some wild time. Jay Griffiths in this excellent article of the same name […]
Tags: jay griffiths, Jay Walljasper, lynnika butler, stephan rechtschaffen, time, utne reader, wild time
In branding higher learning, it’s out with the old school
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation
Caption: Einstein didn’t own a hairbrush either Check out the Globe and Mail article by Simon Houpt ‘In branding higher learning, iti’s out with the old school’. He talks a bit about work I did with one of our clients, Simon Fraser University. I did a workshop with the student recruiters (the folks who go […]
Tags: branding, einstein, globe and mail, learning, simon houpt, training & development
When it comes to time is spontaneity political?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last three posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper, Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time and Lynnika Butler’s article […]
Tags: africa, change management, dyana valentine, Jay Walljasper, leda dederich, lynnika butler, overcommitment, politics of spontaneity, rps, skype, stephan rechtschaffen, time, tokyo, utne reader
This thing called time: Tokyo time
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Travel
Having recently returned from working in Africa I’ve been thinking about time. A lot. In my last two posts I wrote about a great Utne Reader article called Our Schedules, Our Selves: Are you more important than your appointment book? by Jay Walljasper and Stephan Rechtschaffen’s article called How to expand time. In the same […]
Tags: africa, japan, Jay Walljasper, lynnika butler, stephan rechtschaffen, time, utne reader
This thing called time
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Travel
Coming back from working in Africa for a month I’ve been thinking about time a lot. A lot. Time flowed thicker there. I was swept up in its meandering current. I delighted in its unpredictability. Slipping back into the stream at home in Canada I observe myself getting annoyed if someone takes a few extra […]
Tags: africa, canada, Jay Walljasper, time, utne reader
Questions are the lasers of illumination
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Creativity & innovation
Recently I attended a luncheon at the annual CSTD (Canadian Society for Trainingand Development) / IFTDO (International Federation of Training and Development Organizations) international conference. Around me were professional trainers of all sorts. Being a born and bred trainer my antennae was up and my ears tuned. I’d listened to Peter Senge and Romeo Dallaire […]
Tags: cstd, iftdo, learning, peter senge, question, romeo dallaire, training & development