Cross cultural communications – are you in?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Training & development
We interrupt this blog post for an important message: Taken the ‘test’ on cross-cultural communications yet? No? Get on over to this post with the test (and a prize!). If you can answer the question in the comment section you could win a Life Lenses™ assessment. *********************** Cross cultural communications. It’s a BIG topic. It […]
Tags: cross cultural communications, culture, diversity
Do First Nations people look you in the eye? More cultural lessons for training & development
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Training & development
Hot post title, no? Has it got you all up in arms? Good. Hang on, keep reading (there’s a contest with a cool prize to come)… A couple of my recent posts have been on cultural issues to consider when doing training and development. You can see them at the bottom of this post. I […]
Tags: communication, communication continuum, first nations, intercultural, inuit, life lenses, perspective
Training & development learning well May blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
This is the first Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for the month of May below. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development or just get your big toe […]
Tags: learning well, roundup, training & development
Learning Perspective – Paper vrs Rock
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
Learning perspective. In my dictionary that’s what we’re all about as training and development specialists. In my dictionary that means creating a culture in both our training and development content and delivery that supports: …taking a second look …finding a new outlook …re-examining perspectives, even (especially) those perspectives we’ve held for a lifetime. ‘nuf said. […]
Tags: learning perspective, perspective, training & development
He ain’t heavy, he’s my (misinformed) brother – how a little information can go a wrong way
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Humor & comedy, Training & development
Warning: this post is a little graphic. I decided to run it because I originally received the joke from my mum-in-law. I figured if she found it funny you may too. Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and preceded to the checkout counter. The man at […]
Tags: organizational development, perspective, safety, training & development
Learning can be stressful – throwing learning to the dogs
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
If stress can cause this kind of physical response in dogs imagine what a nervous learner can be suffering! Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially […]
Tags: learning, self-esteem, stress, stress response, thomas szasz
Training & development cultural lessons from Sioux Lookout
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Training & development
Watching out for too-near hippos at night and too-curious monkeys by day, I’ve been fortunate to do my training work all over the globe. From -72 Celsius/-96 Fahrenheit to +44 Celsius/111 Fahrenheit I’ve run the gamut of intriguing work places and spaces. Recently I found myself in a tiny plane, hop skip and a jumping […]
Tags: culture, first nations, sioux lookout
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
Destination Aeron for the WhiteHot Truth
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Training & development
I hold out. I waited seven weeks for my Aeron chair because I wanted grey instead of black. I sat on the floor in my living room for three months because I wanted a couch that was three inches lower than the in-store model. I went four months without any creative-type support because I hadn’t […]
Tags: commitment, danielle laporte, destination lens, whitehot truth