A creative ode to the linoleum temple (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert & Balkan Beat Box)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
Elizabeth Gilbert, in her book Committed: a Love Story, calls the kitchen the ‘linoleum temple.’ Love it. Here’s the linoleum temple in all it’s musical, yes musical, glory (see video below). It’s an ode to creativity. Notice the elements of surprise & the unusual use of everyday objects. Two very good elements to use in […]
Tags: balkan beat box, creativity, elizabeth gilbert
Training & development learning well May 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 May. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development […]
Tags: brain based learning, creativity, danielle laporte, darr reynolds, interactive, life lenses, perspective, powerpoint
Creativity doesn’t have to mean coming up with something brand new …
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
When I do creativity & innovation training workshops, I inevitably come across participants who don’t think they’re creative, who don’t believe they have a creative bone in their body. People, if you make it through a day you’re creative. If you’re breathing you’re creative. If you’re a parent you’re creative (especially if you’re a parent […]
Tags: creativity
Training & development learning well January blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
The first month of the new year is about to slip by. Sit up, take notice & look back before looking forward. 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 […]
Tags: change management, creativity, culture, emmanuel jal, forgiveness, jen louden, learning, to do
Freedom for creativity? Freedom from creativity? Is this a playground or a jail?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Freedom? Restrictions? Limitations? Guidelines? Safety? Security? Sanctions? Sanctimonious? The signs surrounding the playground that swam by me as I jogged my way around Washington Square in New York City a while back got me thinking. Do we need rules to set us free? Is this a safe space within a jungle? Or is it a […]
Tags: creativity, new york city, perspective
Fresh perspective = creativity + words that dance
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
What if words could dance? What if content could sing? What if training & development could taste? A whole lot more creativity, that’s what. Here’s what can happen when you bust out & think out loud, out of the proverbial box…. Creativity. Never gonna give you up. It’s a must. A ‘gotta have’. A go […]
Tags: creativity
How about a bedtime story a million miles away?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Rising up and gracefully meeting the challenges that today’s ever increasingly fast paced world presents can’t be done with the thinking of yesteryear. Changing perspective means breaking out of the bonds that tie our brains down. Encumbered with false assumptions (we’ve gotta do it this way, any other way won’t work, we tried before, it […]
Tags: a story before bed, assumptions, communication, creativity, learning, perspective, reading
Training & development learning well September blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
September passed in a blur and you missed out on some Rock.Paper.Scissors’ blog posts? No worries. Here they are – laid out like a picnic for your perusing – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for the month of September below. Learn well in the training […]
Tags: access and inclusion, creativity, harpaul sambhi, innovation, jessica fraser, mobile movement, resilience, social media
29 ways to stay creative when you’re training (part 3 of 3) plus a contest
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
Note: this post contains a chance to win a free song. Keep reading for how to enter… I came across this great video (see below) from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative. I really like the title because it assumes you and me are creative to start with, which is my mantra. Creativity […]
Tags: agenda, creativity, curiousity, inspiration, organization
29 ways to stay creative … when you’re training (part 2 of 3)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
I came across this great video (see below) from Tofu Design called 29 ways to stay creative. I really like the title because it assumes you and me are creative to start with, which is my mantra. Creativity is in our DNA – some of us just have to dig deeper for it if we’ve […]
Tags: collaboration, creativity, danielle laporte, Dolly Hopkins, dyana valentine, feedback