Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2010
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Training & development
Since 2007 Jane Hart, of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, has been putting together an annual list of top learning tools. The completed 2010 list is at the end of this post and the emerging 2011 list is here. I tried out a couple that were new to me; Glogster, for making posters […]
Tags: centre for learning & performance technologies, glogster, jane hart, learning & development, livebinder, mindmeister, tools, voki, wallwisher
Where’s your off switch?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development, Travel
When I was doing some training for the United Nations in East Africa a while back, some friends and I got together one night at a house to watch a movie and make cookies. The cookie dough never made it to the oven (a destination few cookie dough batches in my world meet) and the […]
Tags: 24/7, health, off switch, united nations, Wellness
The blind leading the blind … literally
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Diversity & culture, Training & development
Remember the old joke about 3 blind men describing an elephant? One man, holding the tail, describes it entirely differently than another man who is touching its truck, which is yet again different from the man touching its tusk. Perspective. It can be a potential killer. Limited perspective can kill ideas, creativity, critical thinking, innovation, […]
Tags: blind, life lenses, perspective, seeing clearly
10 tips for trainers part two: avoiding hairy, naked guys
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Human resources, Training & development
This is part two of 10 tips for trainers. See part one here. It’s my gift to you the day after my birthday. I figured as I don’t have to wait until Christmas to open gifts why should you. 6. Avoid the hairy, naked guy; part A when we’re stressed our brains aren’t primed for […]
Tags: ah ha, curiousity, group groan, self-care, story, storytelling, stress, training tips
10 tips for trainers part one: bumblebee butts & booty
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture, Teambuilding, Training & development
It’s my birthday tomorrow and as tomorrow’s not a usual day for posting I thought I’d give you a gift today. Ever since I hit the earth some 4+ decades ago I’ve not had to wait for Christmas to open gifts so I thought I’d share the bounty with you, my dear blog reader, with […]
Tags: access, bee, birthday, bumblebee, delicious, flickr, humor, humour, inclusion, popular education, praxis, self-care, tip, tips, youtube
Are you ‘Educating for a Change?’
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
Educating for a change is one of my all time favourite books. It’s a lovely blend of: 1. Explaining what popular education is and why it’s important 2. Example activities that you can use to effect change As a learning and development specialist do you know what your pedagogy is? Pedagogy technically means the teaching […]
Tags: adult education, andragogy, brain based learning, experiential education, pedagogy, popular education
How you get kids to wash their hands can tell you a lot about effecting change
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
Washing hands prevents sickness, prevents spreading disease. Washing your hands properly can reduce your chances of death, yes death, by up to 35%. Nothing new there. Smoking kills. The World Health Organization says that 4.2 million people died prematurely in 2000 from smoking. Smoking stinks, it’s expensive and (as a non-smoker I can only imagine) […]
Tags: head life lens, heart life lens, hyrum grenny, josephy grenny, sara mitaru
10 ways how to wrap a training (and a cat)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Training & development
It’s the end of the week and all good things must come to an end, especially trainings. The primacy and recency effect in training tells us that participants tend to remember what happens first and last, hence the need for a good ending. How do you end your trainings? Here’s a checklist of things to […]
Tags: content, logistics, process, recency effect
Ingunn Aursunes’s views on seeing clearly
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Training & development
Ingunn Aursunes of Quantum Leap Consulting in Norway, talks about how to see clearly in the clip I interviewed her for below. She speaks eloquently about ‘listening for other things than what our ears can capture.’ Sounds like a smart Heart Life Lens™ to me.
Tags: Ingunn Aursunes, life lenses, perspective, quantum leap consulting, seeing clearly, self-assessment, WIN conference
Not paying attention as a trainer can make you take an unwanted bath
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Training & development
I once took a university course, early Friday mornings at 8:30 am, with only 3 others in the class. There was another painful aspect to it other than the early hour. The professor lectured from notes so old they were yellowed. Plus his monotonous tone matched the static nature of his notes. Mother of mertle […]
Tags: attention, learning & development, life lenses, perspective, training & development