What does yellow taste like?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
“This tastes yellow tastes mommy?” my then two year old told me as he ate something that was not the colour yellow. Half of my brain marveled at his unusual and creative description, while half of my brain jumped to thinking about the seeds of an activity in his statement. Since Jeremy’s description years ago […]
Tags: creativity & innovation, innovation, risk, self image, training & development
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
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
Boda Bodas: from Oxfam to Razor Blades
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Travel
Kampala, Uganda. Christmas is coming and I decide to take a break from work to do some shopping. Kenneth and Patricia, youth from the One Stop Youth Centre, where I’ve been working, volunteer to take this mzungu (white person) to Owino Market. First task is to get there. With a mix of trepidation and channeling […]
Tags: boda boda, Kampala, oxfam, rps, sewing, shopping, value village
Polite notice: am naked and waiting
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy, Travel
No, this isn’t a porn email, rather some overall musings on Kenya and Uganda. You often see public notices here start with ‘Polite notice….’ as in ‘polite notice; please check out by 10 am’. I like that, it’s poetic. Time runs thicker here. Am measuring time not in seconds or minutes but rather in hours […]
Tags: Kampala, maribou stork, questions, rps, shower, time, uganda
Hippos and Irish Drinking Songs
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy, Travel
During my recent five days of doing intensive program evaluation training in Kenya for the United Nations,, we created a bit of a spectacle with our training. To keep the content interesting I constantly did games and activities that were frequently very loud. The wait staff always hung around to watch. We play and learn […]
Tags: hippo, irish, kenya, naivasha, program evaluation, rps, tanzania, uganda, unicorn, united nations