A social media training treasure hunt
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Training & development
Today is the first day of a brand spanking new course I’m teaching called ‘Transforming Workplace Learning through Social Media’ and I thought I’d let you in on some of the treasures to be found when you incorporate Social Media into your training and development work. (And yes, Social Media deserves to be capitalized ….. […]
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What do brown M&M’s & technical requirements for training have in common?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Turns out a lot. You and I might know intuitively that participants need to be able to see and hear us when we’re training in order for the workshop to go off well, but it’s not the case for everyone. David Lee Roth of Van Halen was a […]
Tags: david lee roth, program supplies, sound, stage, technical requirements
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: fun & funny resources for using social media in training
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Humor & comedy, Training & development
Ok cowboy, round ’em up and moooooove ’em out. Here are some fun and funny resources related to this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter which has a manifesto on how to be a space cowboy (aka how Social Media is transforming workplace learning). Why the reference to space cowboy? Because if social media is the wild west, […]
Tags: auto correct, kris krug, social media, workplace learning
Oceans of opportunities open up with perspective game changer
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
As training and development professionals we’re all about perspective. Enhancing, expanding, illuminating, uncovering, adapting, enlarging and shaking it up. We are perspective changers and we can learn a thing or two about how to do it from this conundrum. What do you do if you want to play soccer but you live in a village […]
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Are you ready to transform workplace learning through social media? If so, join me
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
I’m really excited about the brand new course I’m teaching called ‘Transforming Workplace Learning through Social Media’. I created this short video to give you the down low on the highlights. Check it out and join the fun. Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see you November 14-15th at the Justice […]
Tags: justice institute, social media, workplace learning
Training & development learning well October blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Human resources, Training & development
October has come and gone with goblins galore. If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply cast a spell and click below. Here they are – laid out like a well carved pumpkin for your perusing – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for […]
Tags: change, change management, engagement, learning, learning curve, learning domains, social media, training & development
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: Resources for transforming workplace learning through Social Media
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Want to focus on how you too can become a Social Media training space cowboy (we’re in the wild west of new galaxies here)? Check out the resources below from the latest Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter which has a manifesto on how to be a space cowboy (aka how Social Media is transforming workplace learning): Jane Bozarth’s […]
Tags: delicious, jane bozarth, julie szabo, justice institute, netvibes, social media, workplace learning
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: Four Ways Social Media is Transforming Workplace Learning (or how to be a space cowboy)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
The latest Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter is out with a manifesto on how to be a space cowboy (aka how Social Media is transforming workplace learning). If Social Media is like the Wild West, with everyone figuring it out as we go along, then using Social Media specifically for training and development is in another galaxy completely. […]
Tags: brain rules, compfight, douglas merrill, jeff bulla, john medina, linkedin, pedagogy, social media, twitter, workplace learning, youtube
Learning curve: how do you know when you’ve ‘got it’? When your participants have got it?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development, Travel
Lessons in learning curves from Kenyan soap. If you’re a regular reader you’ll know that I’ve recently moved from Vancouver to Nairobi, Kenya. The learning curve is sometimes fun and fluid, and sometimes crazy and chaotic. It’s got me thinking about how we, as trainers, know when we’ve ‘got it’? When our participants have ‘got […]
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Perspective and mamahood; how does your perspective affect your training?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
As a trainer our perspectives changes – depending on who we’re working with, what subject matter we’re teaching, how we’re feeling that day, our energy level and a million other things. We think we’re neutral and objective but we’re not. We’re biased. Way biased. We see things as only we see them. We see things […]
Tags: learning, mamahood, perspective