Fringe or Fray: how you see the edges affects how you see the core
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Conflict resolution
I love lists. I love making them and checking them off. I like to think (some might say delude myself) that they help me have a sense of control over my life. I can get a bit crazy when I feel I don’t have any control, when I’m unorganized, when I’m not sure where things […]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, creativity & innovation, four hour work week, learning, mess, organized, perfect mess, perspective, tim ferris
Business Strategy & Lizards
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication
I have been participating in the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs E-Series program since January. It’s like a mini-MBA for women business owners. It kicks business butt. We’ve heard a variety of speakers on a variety of topics (see below for a listing with links). What’s been a common challenge however is to find time to […]
Tags: bev briscoe, blo blow dry bar, briscoe management, business, business strategy, change management, creativity & innovation, cupcakes, e-series, echo memoirs, forum for women entrepreneurs, isabelle mercier, judy brooks, kins farm market, leapzone strategies, learning, lisa colls simpson, lizard brain, lori kliman, mark wardell, mike jagger, nettwerk, provident security, queenie chu, sam reynolds, terry mcbride, wardell professional management, yyoga
Workshops that Work
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Do you have a training function in your job (or want to have one) and do you live in the Greater Vancouver area? If so you might be interested in an upcoming workshop I’m teaching called Workshops that Work from April 21-22, 2010 at Langara College in Vancouver, BC, Canada. What past participants have said […]
Tags: change management, creativity & innovation, curriculum, development, langara, learning, training & development, vancouver, workshop
Messengers of Truth
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Diversity & culture, Travel
Recently I was working (& playing) in Rio de Janiero, Brazil for the United Nation’s World Urban Forum, where I presented a workshop on cultural intelligence. The event included a celebration of young artists which the United Nations have deemed ‘Messengers of Truth’. They are artists from all over the world that sing and perform […]
Tags: brazil, change management, messengers of truth, music, peace, peacebuilding, rio de janiero, truth, united nations, world urban forum
You just never know, surprises Brazilian style
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Travel
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been at the UN World Urban Forum (WUF) in Rio de Janiero, Brazil where I gave a workshop on cultural intelligence. Here’s the behind the scenes story to the workshop, what I didn’t tell you in that post. When the time came to start there were only […]
Tags: brazil, change management, cultural intelligence, gerd junne, rio de janiero, training & development, united nations, world urban forum
Bingo based decision making
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict resolution, Travel
I’m traveling and working in Brazil, for the United Nations, and recently had a curious example of decision making using Bingo. The tale happens in Rio Quente, a resort anchored around a thermal river. Think every kind of water themed event and you’ll get the picture, including snorkeling with 6 foot long arapaima fish and […]
Tags: brazil, change management, decision making, decisions, learning, private, public, rio quente, united nations
Finding the ‘e’ in parking
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Humor & comedy, Travel
Travel both stretches the mind and the patience. Travel suffuses the spirit with all sorts of possibilities, possibilities that seem effortless and reachable. Creativity catches a ride in your suitcase to your far flung destination and ideas float as freely there as the lizard that my son mistakenly dropped in the pousada pool the other […]
Tags: brazil, change management, creativity & innovation, french, parking, portuguese, spanish, translation
Weight loss and business lessons
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Today I’m celebrating my two year anniversary of having lost 30 pounds. I learned a lot during my weight loss journey. Mostly I learned it’s about common sense prevailing over wishful thinking, reducing the power I have to delude myself and accepting some givens without excuses. I also learned about applying the journey to the […]
Tags: change management, chocolate, forum for women entrepreneurs, four hour work week, law of the farm, leap of faith, learning, russel stover, stephen covey, tim ferris, training & development, weight loss
Aim for regrets
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Conflict resolution
A while back I listened as Arlene Dickinson kept a large audience rapt with her business successes and her trials and tribulations. She’s the only woman on the wildly successful Dragon’s Den, “where aspiring entrepreneurs pitch their business concepts and products to a panel of Canadian business moguls who have the cash and the know-how […]
Tags: burton, change management, creativity & innovation, learning, regret, snowboard
Bobsledding – brake or steer? You can’t do both
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Conflict resolution
As the sun sets on the biggest celebration Vancouver’s ever seen my thoughts are returning to the Olympic bobsled competition I watched recently in Whistler. Run like hell for up to 50 meters, hop in, head down and then, if you’re the guy in back, you’re only role is to brake. The person whose back you’re […]
Tags: 2010, bobsled, bobsleigh, change management, control, learning, olympics, vancouver, whistler, winter olympics