What’s more complicated – flying a plane or juggling three TV remotes?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Training & development
A while back I was on vacation, alone (temporarily) in rented digs. I had satellite television. Three unusual happenstance. I grabbed the remote eagerly and started searching for a good show to watch. I searched. I floundered. I can’t turn the TV on. So I change tactics and switch remotes. Three remotes later I need […]
Tags: perspective
What does a hand dryer look like? Depends on your perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Travel
I love things and people that make me shift or readjust my perspective. Like crossing the street and the hand dryer. What does a hand dryer look like to you? Like this? Or like this and this? Both of them get the job done, just differently. How does your perspective frame how you see the […]
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Do you know the fancy, official wine term ‘DNPIM’? aka a great T&D hook
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Humor & comedy, Training & development
Have you entered the cultural training & development contest yet and grabbed a chance of winning a free Life Lenses assessment? No? What are you waiting for – deadline is June 15th. ******************* A while ago I attended the Forum for Women Entrepreneur’s annual Gala, a great bash for entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurially minded. This […]
Tags: decode, forum for women entrepreneurs, fwe, hook, john jacobsen, monexa, perspective, quails' gate estate winery, tony stewart
Do First Nations people look you in the eye? More cultural lessons for training & development
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Training & development
Hot post title, no? Has it got you all up in arms? Good. Hang on, keep reading (there’s a contest with a cool prize to come)… A couple of my recent posts have been on cultural issues to consider when doing training and development. You can see them at the bottom of this post. I […]
Tags: communication, communication continuum, first nations, intercultural, inuit, life lenses, perspective
Learning Perspective – Paper vrs Rock
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
Learning perspective. In my dictionary that’s what we’re all about as training and development specialists. In my dictionary that means creating a culture in both our training and development content and delivery that supports: …taking a second look …finding a new outlook …re-examining perspectives, even (especially) those perspectives we’ve held for a lifetime. ‘nuf said. […]
Tags: learning perspective, perspective, training & development
Assumptions – those sneaky, sly fellows that wreak havoc
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution
I’m a huge fan of assumptions, or rather busting those sneaky, sly fellows before they have a chance to loom large. Making assumptions is the cause of a good deal of conflict, of misperceptions, of stereotyping and of generally mis-seeing our colleagues, companies and collective communities. As big a role as assumption making plays in […]
Tags: assumptions, confict resolution, crave, melody biringer, perspective
He ain’t heavy, he’s my (misinformed) brother – how a little information can go a wrong way
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Humor & comedy, Training & development
Warning: this post is a little graphic. I decided to run it because I originally received the joke from my mum-in-law. I figured if she found it funny you may too. Two young boys walked into a pharmacy one day, picked out a box of tampons and preceded to the checkout counter. The man at […]
Tags: organizational development, perspective, safety, training & development
Don’t be a parrot or a human ventriloquist
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Employee retention
Ever get the sense you’re listening to a talking head, someone who is is parroting someone else’s words? Does your boss ever expect you to be a human ventriloquist with him or her pulling the strings and you voicing their stuff? Welcome to the world of unengaged employees. Of staff caught in a maze blindly […]
Tags: engagement, life lenses, paul zerdin, perspective, self-assessment, ventriloquist
3 easy, free, funny planning tools to help you get the year you want part 3
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
In terms of looking ahead to help unfurl what the new year will bring we’ve covered the serious stuff – an article on how to get the year you want and 6 resources to help you do just that. Now it’s time for the fun and funny. If you need some conviction check out Taylor […]
Tags: colleen wainwright, communicatrix, new year, perspective, planning, planning tools, taylor mali
There are years that ask questions and years that answer
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Diversity & culture
In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God author Zora Neale Hurston writes there were years that ask questions and years that answer. Besides being a sentence that made me jolt to a stop and ponder, it’s a great way to frame the new year. Which will it be for you? Which worldview will broaden […]
Tags: answers, perspective, questions, their eyes were watching god, worldview, zora neale hurston