How To Get Unstuck Thanks to Magical Kingdoms
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Conflict resolution, Creativity & innovation
Are you facing a particularly pernicious problem? Banging your head against the wall in frustration because you’re stuck & stumped? Stay tuned for some ease & how to find a way forward …. using resources that are right in front of your nose. Plus I’ll follow-up next week & share a fun, creative way […]
Tags: assumptions, bias, perspective, problem solving
Five Ways To See Anew & Find Another Perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Creativity & innovation
Last week I made the case for Why You Need To See Anew & Find Another Perspective. Because even though you know that today’s problems won’t get resolved by the same approaches you’ve taken in the past … And even though you know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and […]
Tags: assumptions, perspective
The danger of a single story
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
As a young Nigerian student who had travelled to the US to study, Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie came face to face with something we all encounter many times throughout our lives – a single story. Let me explain. Chimamanda arrived to the US and met her new roommate, a roommate who was shocked […]
Tags: assumptions, chimamanda adichie, international day of families, pico iyer, single story, TED
Does a fish see the water it swims in? Identifying the assumptions you’re swimming in
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
We’ve all done it – unwittingly made a big, fat assumption that we only realize much later clouds our thinking & our way forward. See if you can determine what assumptions these parents are making as they try to free their kid, who’s managed to get his head stuck in their fence. Fast […]
Tags: assumptions, creativity, perspective
Dementia Quiz – test yourself with these 4 funny questions
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy
Here are 4 questions to test for dementia (with tongue planted firmly in cheek). (Answers appear below.) 1. You are a participant in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? 2. If you overtake the last person, then you are in what place? 3. Very tricky arithmetic! Note: this must […]
Tags: assumptions, humour
Think outside the box. Where are your boundaries?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
This image, from Mike Rilstone’s facebook page, is a great, visual reminder of the unwitting chains that can bind our thinking. Of the assumptions we can unknowingly make. Of perspectives that can blind instead of illuminate. What assumptions are you making that are muddying the waters, preventing a clearer picture? What boundaries are binding your […]
Tags: assumptions, creativity, perspective
Out of the mouths of babes … come an entirely different perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation
We have chains around our brains. These chains limit our thinking. They box us in, hold us down, reign us in. The chains often come in the form of assumptions. Assumptions we make without even knowing it. Assumptions kill creativity. Assumptions keeps us in our own dogged perspective, our own worldview. How to bust out? […]
Tags: assumptions, creativity
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
Assumptions – an example for how to id & avoid them
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Assumptions. We all make them. All the time. What’s worse is we’re usually unaware that we’re making them. Assumptions that is. They’re devilishly difficult to identify. They play with our heads and how we see what’s in front of our face and fortune. A great example of id’ing & avoiding assumptions is Melodie Biringer of […]
Tags: assumptions, melodie biringer
How far away is the moon? It’s not what you think
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Many things skew our perspective, how we see the world and how we teach. our culture assumptions that we make (and don’t question) marketing (if you don’t have product X you’ll be unhappy, fat, poor and unpopular) images that we’re used to seeing (and don’t question) Take the moon for example. How far is the […]
Tags: assumptions, communication, perspective