What frames your view? A Life Lenses™ take on provocative video
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources, Humor & comedy
Is the video below funny, creative, rule breaking and subversive or a waste of time, waste of energy and sadly pathetic? Depends on your view. Depends on how you frame things. A Carrot Life Lens™ appreciates the attention to detail. A Mountain Life Lens™ likes the strategy. A Destination Life Lens™ approves getting it done. […]
Tags: humour, organizational culture
Training & development learning well July 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 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 […]
Tags: africa, anita roddick, barbie, body shop, change management, dave ulrich, enthusiasm, gary brolsma, heath brothers, ihrm, journey lens, learning, liz paterson, mattel, memory, numa numa, organizational culture, perspective, public health, retention, sitting, switch, vonrestorff
Results of ‘What % of the time is the leading scorer on the winning World Cup team? And what does it have to do with organizational culture?!?’
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
Last week I wrote a post about ‘What percent of the time is the leading scorer on the winning World Cup team? And what does it have to do with organizational culture?!?,’ Spoiler alert! Now for the results…. (Didn’t get a chance to cast your interactive vote? Simply head over there now before reading the […]
Tags: aaron johannes, dave ulrich, emmanuel jal, melanda schmid, organizational culture
What percent of the time is the leading scorer on the winning World Cup team? And what does it have to do with organizational culture?!?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
A while back I was fortunate to take part in Dave Ulrich’s day long workshop for the Institute of Human Resource Management, in Nairobi. One of the most interesting bits was his take on organizational culture. But first, some sports trivia compliments of Dave (note: if you’re not a sports fan like me, hang in there, […]
Tags: dave ulrich, ihrm, organizational culture
Storytelling as a culture builder – how feather dusters & snow globes can help
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources
‘Tell me a story’ are words to make most people’s blood pressure increase. Just as North American corporate audiences don’t tend to sing or draw in public, we don’t tend to tell stories either. Or do we? The background story We all tell stories and we tell them all the time. We just may not […]
Tags: change management, Daniel Pink, echo memoirs, engagement, infographics, made to stick, organizational culture, sam reynolds, storytelling
The biggest bird on the block in terms of building nest know-how still have to manage their flock, lessons from problem managers
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication
A recent survey in the Canadian HR Reporter, by Claude Balthazard, reported on human resource professionals’ take on problem managers. Cleaning up after them. Sometimes repeatedly. The article had some interesting things to say about some organizational cultures tolerating problem behaviour. A disappointing 35.2% said ‘if they deliver results, we tolerate just about anything’. Talk […]
Tags: canadian hr reporter, claude balthazard, cultural intelligence, emotional intelligence, Human resources, managers, organizational culture, problem managers, word cloud