Training & development learning well March blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Training & development
Sit up, take notice & look back before looking forward to next month. If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply usher yourself down to the well & click as you wish. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower […]
Tags: assumptions, communication, complexity, culture, education, heath brothers, ignorance, maasai, risk management, shelby edwards, switch
If you think education is expensive try ignorance
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
I snapped this picture of a bumper sticker. Love it. It speaks volumes. Education costs. It costs time. It costs money. More importantly it costs your self-image because education means making oneself vulnerable, opening up to new information, new ways of looking at old pictures. Education means taking risks. Education means knowing you don’t know it […]
Tags: self image, training & development
Those awkward crunchy bits of training & development
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
My good friend & colleague Melanda Schmid & I just finished doing a 6 day training in Cairo, Egypt. The participants were from 20+ countries & it fell to Melanda to make sure visas were got, tickets were bought & everyone ended up at the right place at the right time. She did a masterful […]
Tags: awkward crunchy bits, melanda schmid, scott berkun
Risk Management: warning, this area protected by guard dog 3 days/week – you guess which days
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
I’m writing from Cairo, where I’ve been training UNHABITAT youth fund recipients in the UN’s Locally Elected Leadership Series. The group is also receiving training in project management, which included a segment on risk management. My friend & colleague Shelby Edwards dialed in from Seattle via Skype & shared her extensive risk management expertise. It […]
Tags: risk management, shelby edwards
Laugh, learn & lead via God fearing, saved Christian driver
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Humor & comedy, Training & development
Sitting in infernal Nairobi traffic the other day (or a ‘jam’ as the locals call it), I saw this sign posted on a building. Do you need a God fearing saved Christian driver? Cultural context: Nairobi traffic being what it is, many (privileged) folks have drivers. If you were looking for a driver what qualities […]
Tags: laugh, laugh & learn, transfer of learning
Training & development learning well February blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Sit up, take notice & look back before looking forward to next month. If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply usher yourself down to the well & click as you wish. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower […]
Tags: assessment, complexity, emmanuel jal, life lenses, newsletter, perspective, power, social media, to do
A peek inside UNHABITAT training for Urban Youth Fund Grantees in Cairo
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Training & development
Hello from Cairo! I’ve just finished day 2 of 6 days of training for the UN. I’m revamping the UN LEL series curriculum for a youth audience & the training participants, from around the world, are participating in a gap & asset assessment to examine how youth can better engage with local leaders. I’m also […]
Tags: cairo, communication, united nations
Complexity made simple – that’s what a good assessment does
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Training & development
(Me: in official, officious tone…) Today I’m going to teach you about reverse laminar flow. (You: in confused, bewildered tone…) Say what? Complexity made simple. If they’re any good that’s what assessments do. Take complicated, complex human beings and complicated, complex views of the world and make them simple. Not simplistic. Simple. Like explaining what […]
Tags: assessment, complexity
A ludicrously easy, perspective changing way to better tie your shoes
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
How long have you been tying your shoes? Me – I remember knocking on a neighbours door and then realizing my shoelace was untied. For the first time I tied my shoes all on my own. I was so excited I ran home to tell my home, forgetting about the door I’d just knocked on. […]
Tags: change, training & development
Learning enhancing yogurt
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Learning. It’s possible to do it even in the wee hours of the morning. Before a ridiculously self-imposed early morning flight from New York to Vancouver this past fall I found myself grabbing the above yogurt for the plane ride. When I pulled it out to eat I was greeted with a delightful surprise. (Note […]
Tags: learning, life lenses, story