Doing things differently as a trainer gets attention
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Training & development
Learning can’t happen without attention. Our brains have to be sitting up, ready to absorb, in order to learn. One way of getting our participant’s attention is by doing things differently. By doing things creatively. How much have the estimates changed of how much oil is pulsating into the Gulf? A lot. Loads. More than […]
Tags: attention, development, gulf oil spill, Human resources, learning, oil spill, powerful learning, rorschach, rorschach test, training & development
Are you a sieve or a sponge?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Travel
We see what we expect to see. The Heath Brothers, in their fantastic book Made to Stick, talk about our minds being like a sieve as opposed to a sponge – that to remember something it has to be big enough, memorable enough, sticky enough to get caught in the sieve. My sieve got stuck […]
Tags: brazil, development, heath brothers, learning, made to stick, memory, normal, powerful learning, toucan, Travel
Powerful training = powerful learning
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation
When was the last time you learned something powerful in a group setting? I’ve asked my workshop participants this very question hundreds of times and I can count on one hand the number of times someone relayed an example that took place in a university setting (see my caveat below). Powerful learning is relevant. Powerful […]
Tags: adult education, book learning, brain based learning, education, experiential education, group dynamics, learning, popular education, powerful learning, training & development, university