My stop then go kid & what I learned from buying a spatula
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Creativity & innovation
I have two kids. One is an extremer Stop Life Lens™ and 1 is an extremer Go Life Lens™. (Go Life Lenses™ being oriented towards action – yes, let’s try it, jump in! and Stop Life Lenses™ being oriented towards reflection, rumination and thinking it over – hang on, wait a minute, let me think!). […]
Tags: contemplation, go lens, lessons in learning, musing, reflection, stop lens
A participant’s edit to a workshop activity leads to an innovative new twist
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
It’s one of those iffy training exercises. Asking a North American audience to use their bodies to form a picture is risky. Eyebrows tend to head north. Question marks (or the equivalent, #$@#$!) dance above participant’s heads. We North Americans, especially corporate North America tend to divide our brain from the rest of our body. […]
Tags: creativity, moving pictures, participant led design, teachnow, workshop desing
A guide to learning via splattered bug guts
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
I don’t like pumping gas. I always get impatient. I’m not really sure why as it doesn’t take all that long to fill up my gas tank but nonetheless it’s a task I don’t like. That’s why, when filling up on a road trip recently, I was delighted to find a reason to chuckle as […]
Tags: creativity, innovation
What do I do? Here’s my ‘perfect pitch’ a la Dyana Valentine
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation
Ever been stuck (in an elevator or not) when been asked So what do you do anyway? Unless you produce widgets (e.g. something infinitely easy to describe) you’d best spend some time crafting an intriguing answer. We all ‘pitch’ ourselves – whether we’re an ensconced employee or freelancer, stay at home mama or student. The […]
Tags: dyana valentine, pitch perfect
Note to self – what’s your sentence?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Me, I turn static into static electricity.
Tags: Daniel Pink, note to self, sentence
Looking for inspiration? Try an ad (especially these unusual ones from Fast Company)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
The roots of engaging training can be found anywhere. You do however have be on the lookout. Some of my ideas have come from advertisements – yep ads. When I say I’m going to be talking about hairy, naked guy (above specimen) I can see participant’s question marks dancing in the air. (Curiousity being a […]
Tags: amygdala, creativity, curiousity, fast company, inspiration, stress
The results are in (again): the collated creativity E.S.C.A.P.E. assessment (where do you measure up?)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
How creative are you? I wrote a blog post back in July because any and all humans can afford to be more creative (that includes us trainers). Creativity is the numero uno ingredient for success. Doing the same ol’ same ol’ doesn’t work anymore (not sure it worked ever). The post included a short assessment […]
Tags: assessment, creativity assessment, Dolly Hopkins, escape
Time for audience participation (that means you): we see what we expect to see
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
I love traveling by train so when I found myself on the platform in Amsterdam looking for the right platform I was like a kid looking forward to an ice cream cone on a hot summer’s day. (The fact that I was headed to Paris didn’t hurt either.) Despite a well-organized system though I couldn’t […]
Tags: John Lubbock, life lenses, perspective, telus, thalys, worldview
Where’s your rudder? Inspiration for training & development specialists
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development, Travel
Regardless of whether you’re a landlocked lubber or a water born baby chances are you know where a boat rudder is. On the bottom of the boat. Right? Not necessarily. For a land crisscrossed with water (in fact 1/4 of it is below sea level), Holland knows a thing or two when it comes to […]
Tags: amsterdam, gerd junne, popular education, praxis, rudder
Creativity lies everwhere, even in how you store your business cards
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development, Travel
Meet Yann Cramer, editor at InnovToday and Global Technology Manager at Shell. I met Yann at the W.I.N. conference in Paris where we were both speakers. I thoroughly enjoyed his workshop on creativity and saw him walk his talk when we exchanged business cards. More about that in a minute. Creativity, ‘the use of the […]
Tags: catherine destivelle, creativity, innovation, WIN conference, yann cramer