The fine art of balance
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Training & development
The gorgeous video clip below came to me via Dyana Valentine. Other than wondering how the artist can manage to spend so much time upside down while looking so effortless and graceful, it’s got me thinking about balance. As a learning and development specialist I think a vastly overlooked aspect of training is balance. We […]
Tags: artur, balance, carrot life lenses, destination life lenses, go life lenses, head life lenses, heart life lenses, journey life lenses, learning & development, life lenses, mimworld, mountain life lenses, perspective, stop life lenses
Seeing clearly in the eyes of Maggy Barankitse, Founder Maison Shalom
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Training & development
There are those who walk among us, whose mere presence is enough to command respect, to cause one’s eyeballs to pivot forward and focus with intensity, to straighten one’s shoulders, lift one’s head and vow to do better, to be better. Marguerite ‘Maggy’ Barankitse is one such person. Maggy, pictured above with myself, is founder […]
Tags: house of peace, life lenses, Maggy Barankitse, Maguerite Barankitse, Maison Shalom, perspective, seeing clearly, self-assessment, WIN conference
What it takes to see clearly in Senator & Minister of State Ms. Malahoo’s view
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Training & development, Travel
I recently had the honour of hearing Ms. Malahoo, Senator and Minister of State for Jamaica, speak at the W.I.N. conference in Paris. She was dynamic, engaging and articulate. She graciously agreed to be videotaped, speaking about what it takes in her view to see clearly. We’re all inundated with things to do, places to […]
Tags: life lenses, Marlene Malahoo, perspective, seeing clearly
I’m launching Life Lenses™ online at the W.I.N conference in Paris
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Human resources, Training & development, Travel
I’m tickled pink, no actually blue, orange, yellow and bunch of other colours to announce I’ve been selected to speak at the upcoming Women’s International Networking (W.I.N.) conference in Paris, October 5-9, 2010. I’ll be doing a workshop on “Life Lenses™: polish your perspective & gain a whole new view”. ********* The global launch of […]
Tags: assessment, life lenses, Paris, perspective, self-assessment, W.I.N., women's international networking, world view
A great example of evocative learning & development
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Training & development
Good training uses good design. Good learning and development ties new information to knowledge that participants bring with them. Good training takes complex concepts and presents them in simple but not simplistic ways. Good learning and development creates ‘ah ha’ moments that learners discover on their own. Good training is creative. Good learning and development […]
Tags: ah ha moments, creativity & innovation, emotion. pedagogy, learning & development, perspective, training & development
Assess your perspective & find your blind spots (all without visiting the eye doctor)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources, Training & development
We all have 20/20 vision …. in some areas, just as we all have blind spots … in other areas. Do you know yours? The challenge is how to identify where we shine and where we’re blind. By the time you’ve begun reading this you’ve already been faced with an onslaught of sensory input. Everything […]
Tags: assessment, Diversity & culture, dyana valentine, life lenses, perspective
Chuck the flotsam & jetsam so you can see beyond the horizon
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness
Love this ad, love what it captures. Today looms large but not so much tomorrow or the long term prospects. Where’s your focus? Likely it’s barely beyond the tip of your nose. On today. With all the flotsam and jetsam of today’s frenetic life we have to jettison the garbage in order to focus inward […]
Tags: change management & wellness, focus, perspective, vision
Kindness doesn’t have to be huge, hairy and hard to reach (or teach)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility
Some things are complicated. Some things are complex. Some things though are simple. Deceptively simple. Like kindness. I love Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Thought Bubble – Kindness video for that reason. It’s not huge and hairy and hard to reach. Rather it’s simple, soft and within our grasp. It’s also easy to teach. Kindness is the […]
Tags: amy krouse rosenthal, capulet communications, creativity & innovation, julie szabo, kindness, Lloyd Budd, northern voices, perspective, thought bubble, wordpress
When scales don’t tell the truth- how do you judge success?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
I’m graduating from the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs E-series program soon and the other day I tried on a dress that I want to wear to the party. I was trying it on because it was too big and I needed to have it measured to take in. That was my first shocker. It fit. […]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, creativity & innovation, e-series, exercise, forum for women entrepreneurs, perspective, scale, success, tim ferris
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