Here’s how to plan a fun, fab 2018 for yourself
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Communication, Training & development
Welcome! To the new year that is. Happy 2018. → Are you finding yourself hard pressed to describe the kind of year YOU want? → Are you having difficulty expressing YOUR vision for 2018 (as opposed to someone else’s)? → Do you groan inwardly at the thought of creating goals only to feel […]
Tags: assessment, life lenses, online course, planning
Five Ways To See Anew & Find Another Perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Creativity & innovation
Last week I made the case for Why You Need To See Anew & Find Another Perspective. Because even though you know that today’s problems won’t get resolved by the same approaches you’ve taken in the past … And even though you know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and […]
Tags: assumptions, perspective
Why You Need To See Anew & Find Another Perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
Even though you know that today’s problems won’t get resolved by the same approaches you’ve taken in the past … Even though you know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results (attributed to Albert Einstein) … Even though you know all this, […]
Tags: baggage, culture, gerd hofstede, perspective
How do you say this word? → refuse
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
I was recently visiting dear friends in NYC. I’d originally met them in Nairobi but now they call New York home. We were having a wonderful evening on the rooftop patio of their new apartment in Brooklyn. We’d taken the ferry over from Manhattan to discover their little oasis. The breeze off the […]
Tags: access & inclusion, agency, learning & development, perspective, robert sapolsky, TED
ICTs for you from my eLearning Africa workshop – 3 rules & 3×3 tools
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
‘Are you on the beach?’ my partner asked me. ‘I don’t know,’ I replied, ‘it’s dark & I can’t see.’ I was newly landed in Mauritius, a tiny speck of an island off the east coast of Africa. The evening opening reception for the eLearning Africa 2017 conference was kicking off, where I’d […]
Tags: ease, efficiency, elearning, ICTs, pain, social media, tools
Police, secret service agents & FBI are everywhere.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility
Police, secret service agents & FBI are everywhere. And those are only the ones I can see. I wonder how many snipers are stationed out of sight. Roads are blocked with huge cement bomb blast protectors. Traffic is cordoned off & diverted, while the streets are a colourful riot of every skin shade you can […]
Tags: action, paul hawken, reflection, social change, united nations
Identity – yours, mine, ours & his … 6 ways
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Have you ever walked into a meeting feeling super confident, competent, on top of the world, and ready and raring to get down to business? And have you ever walked into a meeting feeling like you don’t belong, like you don’t know what you’re doing, like you’re an imposter and someone’s going to find […]
Tags: canon, identity, perception, perspective
Simon says … ssssh, be the last to speak
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
I saw Simon Sinek, author of ‘Start with why,’ speak at an event in New York City some time ago and found his messages incisive & compelling. Here’s one of his latest. Check out the 1 1/2 minute video below & my notes from his video also below. ‘Here’s the problem & here’s what […]
Tags: assumption, collaboration, communication, simon sinek
In honour of sunglasses day, gratitude via the Life Lenses™
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
I’d originally planned to write this post in honour of national sunglasses day#NationalSunglassesDay because: of my lifelong interest & passion in lenses, specifically the frames with which we see the world of gratitude for the creativity, inspiration & problem solving opportunities the different frames or perspectives bring it’s a fun, whimsical thing to celebrate […]
Tags: gratitude, life lenses, perspective
Intercultural communication- When up is down & down is up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
Have you ever been in a situation where up seemed down & vice versa, where the ‘rules’ didn’t seem to apply? As I was waiting to upgrade my mobile phone chip recently I looked down at the ticket stub the agent had given me to indicate where I was in the queue – number 098. […]
Tags: communication, culture, intercultural, tips, tools