When should I get a girlfriend says my 9 year old; identifying & escaping boxed in thinking
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication
I was looking forward to this past weekend. Really looking forward to it. Both my husband and oldest kid were out of town, leaving some precious 1:1 time with my youngest. After dropping off my oldest at the ferry terminal to visit his grandparents my youngest and I headed back to the van, hand in […]
Tags: change management, creativity & innovation, learning
The road to success may be under construction but you should always be the site foreman
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness
Danielle Wilson, the smart and savvy President and Founder of Sweet Peanut Clothing Company suggests “we should know what our picture of success looks like. We should know what we want and then build a picture of what that looks like.” I really tuned in when she walked her talk by relating how she’d turned […]
Tags: change management, danielle wilson, e-series, forum for women entrepreneurs, fwe, learning, success, sweet peanut clothing
How to make a fan out of a fan; creative marketing ideas
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication, Travel
Imagine being in 28 degrees Celsius / 82 degrees Fahrenheit weather and it’s only 8 am. Your shirt is already sticking to your back and you can feel the sweat sliding down your spine like some amusement park ride gone wild. As you make your way to the first day of a business conference you […]
Tags: brazil, learning, marketing, permission marketing, rio de janeiro, seth godin, ship, united nations, world urban forum
Fray or fringe worldview; you can choose
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict resolution, Creativity & innovation
Recently I wrote a post about as a metaphor for life. You know the bits of a carpet that aren’t neatly sewn up but rather hang there loosely at the edges? Do you see those bits as fray – as messy, a nuisance and unorganized? Or do you see them as fringe – as balance […]
Tags: change management, change management & wellness, creativity & innovation, learning, perspective, worldview
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
Samba lessons from Brazil
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Travel
I was recently in a traditional Samba club called Democraticos in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. I was in Rio to do cultural intelligence training for the United Nations and one night, post-conference, a bunch of us gathered in Lappa, a district of Rio. Think people. Lots and lots and lots of people. People filling the […]
Tags: brazil, creativity & innovation, dancing, following, leading, learning, rio de janeiro, samba, united nations, world urban forum
Teambuilding Brazilian Style
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation, Travel
Raucous cheering filled the air which competed with the hum and thrum of the rain forest. Wild toucans flew about the forest canopy while 6 foot long arapaima fish swam below the tangle of arms and legs that were trying to coordinate themselves down the river. In Rio Quente, Brazil, a thermal river and water […]
Tags: brazil, collaboration, cooperation, creativity & innovation, learning, rio quente, team, Teambuilding, 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