A TED speaker’s worst nightmare – an opportunity or a chance to get real & laugh
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
What’s your worst nightmare if you’re up in front of people speaking?
- technical gadgets not working (no sound &/or no powerpoint)?
- forget what you’re going to say?
- getting heckled by an audience member?
- something else unexpected happening?
What happens when we’re under stress is often a matter of perspective. Stress has a direct bearing on our perspective.
Check this video out & see.
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: humour, public speaking, TED
Watch passion dance, hand in hand with confidence
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Humor & comedy
Passion is the ticket. It points the way. It defines the road. It makes the journey. It makes us shine.
Passion dances, hand in hand, with exuberance.
Passion’s first cousin is chutzpah & confidence.
Show me someone who’s clear about what they’re passionate about & I’ll show you a happy, fulfilled, on track, on point person.
Kinda like this little kid. Doesn’t get more exuberant or passionate than this.
Tags: exuberance, humour, passion
Now that’s a Destination Life Lens™ in full strength- taking a driving exam while in labour
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
“A Scottish woman who took her driving exam while in labour said she passed the test & drove herself to the hospital to give birth” reports United Press International.
Her water broke at 4 am & she took the driving exam at 8:40 am.
“Everyone was telling me to go to the hospital, but I had waited so long for my driving test, I was determined to do it, Ms. French said.”
She kept her contractions a secret from the examiner, passed the test & drove herself to the hospital to have the baby.
Now that’s an example of a Destination Life Lens™ in all her glory. determined to ‘get it done’, achieve the objective, tick the thing off her list, reach the destination.
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: destination lens, getting things done
Value is defined by the user (a la Dave Ulrich)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
I adore this picture, another from Dave Ulrich’s excellent presentation ‘Leadership and Human Resources: Trends for the future’ at the Regional Leadership and HR Convention, Institute of Human Resource Management, Nairobi last year.
What do you see? A wizened old woman? An old man with decades of stories to tell? A lithe young woman? A vibrant young man?
A yearning for days gone by? An imagining of times to come?
Something else?
Value is defined by the user. It’s up to you & your perspective.
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: communication, dave ulrich, Human resources
Training & development learning well December blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under 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 December.
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 wet.
Refresh & refreshing.
As you wish.
- What does school really teach children?
- Four small gifts that are designed to lift your spirit
- Diversity & cross-cultural education wrapped up in a sign
- 7 things Learning & Development professionals can learn from HubSpot’s Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Volpe
- The culprit in plain view – imagine a world where we couldn’t hide who we are.
Tags: access and inclusion, Christmas, compliance, confict, creativity, critical thought, diversity, gifts, holidays, hubspot, humour, inclusion, mike volpe, motivation, perspective, social media strategies summit, truth theory
What can you do with 28,835 jelly beans?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
This is a fabulous video because …
– it’s powerful; it talks about mortality & how we choose to spend our lives
– it’s unique; it uses jelly beans to dish about mortality & life choices
– it’s simple; see point above
I love learning & development examples like this.
Poignant. Powerful. Creative. Candid.
As the new year has barely started, it’s a good time to contemplate.
How will you spend your jelly beans?
Btw: if you think the voice sounds familiar, you’re right. It’s zefrank, the same person who does the wildly popular true facts about wildlife videos.
Tags: jelly beans, learning & development, zefrank
Which way does your watch hand point? For a novel perspective on time, how about uphill
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
My good friend & colleague Melanda Schmid sent me a fascinating article about how time, for a tribe from Papua New Guinea, flows uphill. Yes, that’s uphill.
Once thought to be universal, this “embodied cognition of time” is in fact strictly cultural. Over the past decade, encounters with various remote tribal societies have revealed a rich diversity of the ways in which humans relate to time (see “Attitudes across the latitudes”). The latest, coming from the Yupno people of Papua New Guinea, is perhaps the most remarkable. Time for the Yupno flows uphill and is not even linear.
For the Yupno the past is always downhill, in the direction of the mouth of the local river. The future, meanwhile, is towards the river’s source, which lies uphill from Gua.
When inside the Gua point towards their doors to indicate the past & away from the door when talking about the future.
Go figure. For a Western culture bent on commodifying time (time can be cut, shaved, banked & saved) it’s a novel perspective.
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: culture, perspective, time
When ‘other’ seems odd & you’re searching for similarities
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
When differences loom large…
When ‘other’ seems odd…
When someone else’s perspective has you flummoxed…
When you’re searching for similarities…
When you’re seeking solace in same…
Adjust your perspective & know we all inhabit the same planet, as the following video beautifully illustrates.
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo via Gaurav Julka
~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: access and inclusion, diversity
What does school really teach children?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Social Responsibility, Training & development
After a long, challenging year where one of my kids wasn’t invited back from one school year to the next (an almost straight A student & class president) I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about formal education.
Some schools teach the above. So do some trainers.
Authority, compliance & repetition rules.
My kids have taught me that the things that make for a happy, healthy, well-adjusted adult aren’t necessarily easy things to parent. Cue the video of two year old asserting herself with foot stomping ferocity. Cue middle schooler pointing out how you are clearly contradicting yourself. Cue highschooler, being, well, a dizzyingly, in-depth, frustrating, yet always fascinating teenager.
Critical analysis, creativity & access/inclusion rules my world, my family & my training.
What about you?
Image is from a great site called Truth Theory – check them out for more thought provoking images.
Tags: access and inclusion, compliance, creativity, critical thought, truth theory
Four small gifts that are designed to lift your spirit
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Humor & comedy
This blog post is taken from this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors Inc. newsletter. See the entire newsletter, including how you can join in on a 4 year old tradition.
The holidays are a time for giving & for giving back. I consider myself over the top privileged for getting to work with the likes of yourself (clients, workshop participants, colleagues & casual readers combined), so I wanted to do just that.
Wherever you find yourself during the holidays, I invite you to sit back, put your feet up &, depending on where your ‘starting point’ is, receive one or more of the gifts below. Find the one that matches your mood & enjoy.
- If you’re having trouble finding something positive & are seeking a steady, emergency supply of compliments (like the one on the left below)
- If you’re seeking the benefits of being older & wiser
- If you’re seeking something mirthfully mindless
- If you’re seeking a confidence, can-do, motivational boost*
* know that for the latter you’ll be asked for your email however it’s worth it as you’ll receive a gorgeous, downloadable poster from Danielle LaPorte, like the one at the very bottom on the left.
Tags: Christmas, gifts, holidays, humour, motivation