Training & development learning well June blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of June. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development […]
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This light never turns green (& other complaints from Go Life Lenses™)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
This photo made me laugh out loud – it’s a perpetual complaint self-assessed Go Life Lenses™ have of Stop Life Lenses™. Do you know someone who always wants to think things over for a loooooong time before taking action? Wants to read just 5 more reports before making a decision? Needs to ruminate, debate, theorize […]
Tags: communication, go lens, self-assessment, stop lens
Oh, that I could shrink the surface of the world (for some perspective)…
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Wang Chien (AD 756–835) eloquently wrote the above when he heard his friend was coming back from the war. It came my way from a friend (thanks Michelle for your muse). It got me thinking about what creates distance and what creates closeness. Distance is more than being physically far apart, it’s: not feeling understood or […]
Tags: communication, life lenses, perspective
Do you have a heavy, non-useful contact? I did.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Oh the possible poetry of language. And oh what a mess we can make of it, more mess and muck than clear communication. Take jargon for example. Professional jargon. Like a dentist. Like my dentist (that’s him above). Despite the hardware in my mouth recently, I had to laugh when he turned to his assistant […]
Tags: communication
Crazy making bureaucratic, hair-tearing out form
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Training & development
Bureaucracy can move mountains. It can systematize what’s repetitive, streamlining processes & people with an elegance & ease that’s sorely needed. Bureaucracy can be a pain in the arse. It can make the most simple things so complex that a triple PhD is required to navigate your way through it. We all come into contact […]
Tags: bureaucracy, communication
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 […]
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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 […]
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Training & development learning well December blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility, Training & development
December is about to bid farewell & with that, usher in a new year. 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. […]
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Communication skills 101 (or how to posture with a moose)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Communication skills 101 is about how we hold ourselves. What our bodies say about us. Posturing = power dynamics + lack of awareness. Posturing def’n = a particular way of behaving that is intended to convey a false impression. When someone is posturing they’re trying to hide how they feel inside. Posture + power = […]
Tags: communication, posture, posturing
How mountains & cantaloupes go together when it comes to the high view
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
After laughing out loud at this one, and firmly pushing back memories of ugh-inducing highschool algebra classes that threatened to emerge, the cartoon made me think of the lessons that cantaloupes a.k.a. Mountain Life Lenses™ have to teach us. On a bad day Carrot Life Lenses™ (Mountain’s polar opposite) can have their head buried in […]
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