Training & development learning well May blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication, Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
If you didn’t catch all the posts last month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of May. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development […]
Tags: allie brosh, communication, curiousity, google, Human resources, hyperbole and a half, ihrm, learning, pain, sara bakata, seth godin, social media, sunday nation
Training & development learning well April blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
If you didn’t catch all the posts last month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of April. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development […]
Tags: columbus, creativity & innovation, innovation, juozas cernius, perspective
The magic of washing machines- put in dirty clothes & out comes books says Hans Rosling
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: Ovi Gherman “I was only four years old when I saw my mother load a washing machine for the very first time in her life. That was a great day for my mother. My mother and father had been saving money for years to be able to buy that […]
Tags: creativity, hans rosling, ted talk
Never, ever think outside the box (if you’re a cat)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy
As the owner of two cats who sometimes, err, ‘think’ outside the box, this made me laugh. Creativity can be messy. Disorderly. Hard. Smelly even. The rewards, though, are oh so sweet (smelling). Enough said. (Except thanks to dear friend Roman Rollnick for passing along this cartoon.)
Tags: creativity & innovation
Another view of discovery – Columbus’ view reworked
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
Perspective is powerful, potent thing. It can illuminate & enlighten. It can also dampen & darken. Ownership, culture, discovery, holidays – they’re all imbued with perspective, with a particular worldview. ~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: columbus, perspective
Innovation: sometimes it sucks to think outside the box
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Love love love this creativity / innovation infographic. Because sometimes it sucks to be innovative. To deliberately seek out learning from difference. To step out of your own frame so you can see through another’s. To risk learning. To make oneself vulnerable. So what’s the motivation? While the journey can be fraught with challenges the […]
Tags: innovation
‘What makes you weird?’ asks Seth Godin
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Seth Godin wrote the following post called Destabilizing the bullying power structure. Love it. Wanted to share it with you. Come take a turn & celebrate yours & others’ weirdness & take a pass at bullying in the meantime. Bullies aren’t welcome. For every bully, there are a dozen or a hundred workers/kids/individuals that would […]
Tags: bullying, creativity, seth godin, weirdness
Which way does your watch hand point? For a novel perspective on time, how about uphill
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
My good friend & colleague Melanda Schmid sent me a fascinating article about how time, for a tribe from Papua New Guinea, flows uphill. Yes, that’s uphill. Once thought to be universal, this “embodied cognition of time” is in fact strictly cultural. Over the past decade, encounters with various remote tribal societies have revealed a […]
Tags: culture, perspective, time
What does school really teach children?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Social Responsibility, Training & development
After a long, challenging year where one of my kids wasn’t invited back from one school year to the next (an almost straight A student & class president) I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about formal education. Some schools teach the above. So do some trainers. Authority, compliance & repetition rules. My kids have […]
Tags: access and inclusion, compliance, creativity, critical thought, truth theory
A creative kid’s take on a mouth – a cool perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
My kid loves to draw. He’ll often pick up a pencil & sketch. As a result I find all sorts of interesting drawings around the house. Like the one above. I love how he made a mouth out of nothing. Literally. He ripped the paper to make the figure’s mouth. He’s got a knack for […]
Tags: creativity, drawing, perspective