Do you lean in or out? How to tell & what to do about it
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Communication, Conflict resolution, Teambuilding
Are you geared to lean in or lean out? Move towards or away? Here’s what I’m talking about, why it’s important for you to know & what you can do about it. Did you know you’re in the business of change? No matter what you do you’re likely at some point […]
Tags: assessment, change management, drive, grit, motivation, national geographic
Getting it on with GQ (but not the way you think)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Conflict resolution
There’s IQ, EQ (emotional intelligence) & now GQ (guts or grit quotient). A little girl puts her nose to the table, eyes wandering everywhere but the fluffy marshmallow in front of her face. She’s part of the famous marshmallow experiment, which showed that kids that could delay gratification for double the treat, overall […]
Tags: assessment, EQ, focus, GQ, grit, IQ, national geographic, productivity
Here’s how to plan a fun, fab 2018 for yourself
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Communication, Training & development
Welcome! To the new year that is. Happy 2018. → Are you finding yourself hard pressed to describe the kind of year YOU want? → Are you having difficulty expressing YOUR vision for 2018 (as opposed to someone else’s)? → Do you groan inwardly at the thought of creating goals only to feel […]
Tags: assessment, life lenses, online course, planning
How many sides does a circle have & other creativity provoking statements inspired by the Maasai Mara
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Zebra, wildebeests & elands (the largest of the antelopes) scatter as our tiny plane lands on the dirt runway. The air is heavy & loamy after the recent rains. The sky is a whorl of mauves & grays, which will soon darken to slate as the rain starts again. The safari vehicle that takes us to […]
Tags: assessment, creativity, innovation, maasai mara
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
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
Attention! Attention! A test of your attention.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
The Heath brothers have written in Made to Stick that our brains are more like a sieve than a sponge. Instead of soaking up what catches our eye, we’re more likely to strain out things that don’t catch our attention, leaving behind the big chunky bits in the sieve that is our brain. Watch the […]
Tags: assessment, attention, chip heath, christopher chabris, dan heath, daniel simons, gorilla, made to stick
The results are in (again): the collated creativity E.S.C.A.P.E. assessment (where do you measure up?)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
How creative are you? I wrote a blog post back in July because any and all humans can afford to be more creative (that includes us trainers). Creativity is the numero uno ingredient for success. Doing the same ol’ same ol’ doesn’t work anymore (not sure it worked ever). The post included a short assessment […]
Tags: assessment, creativity assessment, Dolly Hopkins, escape
Seeing clearly through the eyes of Eszter Debreczeni, HR lead for Microsoft
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Training & development
Eszter Debreczeni is Human Resources lead for Central and Eastern Europe, Microsoft. I met her recently at the WIN conference in Paris, where inspired by Life Lenses™ a self-assessment designed to help us identify how we see the world, she spoke to me about her ideas on seeing clearly. Clarity of vision is key. Key […]
Tags: assessment, eszter debreczeni, life lenses, perspective, seeing clearly, self-assessment
Life Lenses™ – Are you ready to see clearly?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication, Employee retention, Human resources, Training & development
“Really trying hard to implement the ‘diversity thing’ but in reality it’s driving you nuts?” “Feel like your boss might as well be speaking Latin for all you understand him/her? “Does what’s important to you get dismissed at work?” “Want to take your organization to the next level but you’re stuck with doubt due to […]
Tags: #lifelenses, assessment, learning & development, life lenses, self-assessment, training & development