What’s your take on Stop Life Lenses™? Clean or messy? Blockage or clearing?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: Rev Dan Catt I love this image. There are at least two ways to interpret it. In no particular order… 1. Being a Stop Life Lens™ messes you up. It causes unnecessary mess by being overly cautious. Stop Life Lenses™ cause blockages, they bring things to a halt, preventing […]
Tags: life lenses, perspective
Training & development learning well June blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Humor & comedy, Training & development
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 June. 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: age, andy rooney, canada, culture, diversity, Diversity & culture, frank kaiser, mckinsey & co, perspective, stephen covey, team building, time management, training of trainers, united nations, worldview
Where do you start – your head or your heart?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Where do you start – from your head or from your heart? Do you honour your intuition above all? Have you honed your gut feelings like a finely aged wine? Are your spidey senses are sharp as a tack? If so you’re likely a Heart Life Lens™. Or … Do you prioritize what you can […]
Tags: perspective
Oh Canada- this one’s for you
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Humor & comedy
Even though I’m about as far away as you can get from Canada, without leaving the planet, my heart lives in Canada. Thinking about home. Thinking about how the concept of home has changed since I’ve been living in Kenya. Thinking about what others think about my home. Thinking about culture. Oh Canada, this one’s […]
In Praise of Older Women by Frank Kaiser
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Frequently (& mistakenly) attributed to Andy Rooney, the article ‘In Praise of Older Women’ by Frank Kaiser is a great example of a different (as in not mainstream) perspective on aging & particularly of older women. Here’s some of what he has to say… When I was 20, I had eyes only for girls my […]
Tags: age, andy rooney, diversity, frank kaiser
Where would you put your used kleenex & other odd perspectives
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: Pink Sherbet Photography I was working at the United Nations today. A bit snuffly, I blew my nose & put the used kleenex on a dirty cup & saucer. A wait staff came over & angrily asked what ‘it’ (the kleenex) was. Surprised & taken off guard, I was […]
Tags: Diversity & culture, united nations
What we Canadians have to be proud of
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
Photo Credit: kennymatic via Compfight cc Perspective comes & worldviews get enhanced when we bump up against ‘other.’ Finding similarities in ‘other’ makes us feel at home but it’s a risky business if we never venture out past our own doorstep. Here for your viewing pleasure is a different way to view us Canadians. It’s […]
Tags: canada, culture, perspective, worldview
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
The Rise of the New Groupthink by Susan Cain
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: khrawlings I’m a training & development expert. I frequently get up in front of people, from 5 to 500, & facilitate learning opportunities in creative, engaging, sticky ways. It’s my passion, it’s my calling. I’m also an introvert. My fuel tank gets refilled in small groups, 1:1 or by […]
Tags: extroversion, groupthink, introversion, susan cain
On a scale of 1 to ‘too serious for numbers’ what’s your pain? (Hyperbole & a Half)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
On a scale of 1 to 10, what’s your pain? This is a standard question asked by doctors when assessing patients. Most patients. But not when it came to Allie Brosh, of Hyperbole & a Half fame, whose boyfriend was asked this question after she took him to the hospital. Allie created a new interpretation […]
Tags: allie brosh, hyperbole and a half, pain