Training & development learning well July blog post round up

If you didn’t catch all the posts last month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of July. 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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Training & development learning well June blog post round up

If you didn’t catch all the posts last 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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Oh Canada- this one’s for you

Even though I’m about as far away as you can get from Canada, without leaving the planet, my heart lives in Canada. Thinking about home.  Thinking about how the concept of home has changed since I’ve been living in Kenya.  Thinking about what others think about my home.  Thinking about culture. Oh Canada, this one’s […]

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What we Canadians have to be proud of

Photo Credit: kennymatic via Compfight cc Perspective comes & worldviews get enhanced when we bump up against ‘other.’ Finding similarities in ‘other’ makes us feel at home but it’s a risky business if we never venture out past our own doorstep. Here for your viewing pleasure is a different way to view us Canadians. It’s […]

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Training & development learning well March blog post round up

If you didn’t catch all the posts last month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of March. 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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How do you experience your perspective, your life?

Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: Linh.Ngan I spend a lot of time thinking about perspective. How do you see the world? How does it compare to how I see the same world? Our perspective is framed by our cultures, including our gender, age, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, religious/spiritual beliefs, where we live (urban/rural), where […]

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Charlie’s Chocolate Factory – finding a neighbour 14,354 km away

The strangest coincidences happen when you’re far, far from home. Like when I was on safari recently in Kenya and met THE Charlie of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory.  Charlie is somewhat of a local legend & meeting him & his wife in person was a sweet treat (pun intended). Charlie’s Chocolate Factory is a family-owned and […]

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Which way does your watch hand point? For a novel perspective on time, how about uphill

My good friend & colleague Melanda Schmid sent me a fascinating article about how time, for a tribe from Papua New Guinea, flows uphill.  Yes, that’s uphill. Once thought to be universal, this “embodied cognition of time” is in fact strictly cultural. Over the past decade, encounters with various remote tribal societies have revealed a […]

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Training & development learning well October blog post round up

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 October. 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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Resources on culture, change & creativity, from an interview with Mozambican musician Wazimbo

In this month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors’ newsletter I interview Mozambican treasure, the musician Wazimbo & get his thoughts on culture, change & creativity.  (That’s him above.)  In this second blog post, I’ve included some resources related to the themes in our interview, including creativity, change, advice & more. Read the entire newsletter here or download a hard copy […]

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