Resilience Is About How You Recharge Not How You Endure
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Humor & comedy
I’m the Queen of suck it up. I can put my nose to the grindstone & buckle down with the best of them. Hours can pass without my noticing my shoulders are aching, my back is sore & I need to go to the bathroom. I work hard, really hard. That’s why I need an […]
Tags: celebrate, hbr, humour, recovery, resilience, suck it up, urgency, Wellness
When it comes to resilience, which are you – an egg, carrot or a coffee bean?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
My friend & I had climbed several of flights of stairs & sandwiched ourselves into high-backed, comfy chairs to listen to the bright minds that had come to speak at TEDx Kilimani, a suburb of Nairobi. Like speaker Sitawa Wafula, award-winning activist & founder of My Mind My Funk, demonstrated recently. Sitawa had […]
Tags: fight, flee, flow, resilience, tedx
Training & development learning well September blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
September passed in a blur and you missed out on some Rock.Paper.Scissors’ blog posts? No worries. Here they are – laid out like a picnic for your perusing – here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up. You’ll find all the blog posts for the month of September below. Learn well in the training […]
Tags: access and inclusion, creativity, harpaul sambhi, innovation, jessica fraser, mobile movement, resilience, social media
When you’ve had a hard day training, listen to this answering machine message for a laugh
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Humor & comedy, Training & development
Some days it’s hard to remain professional, resilient, supportive, prepared yet spontaneous, calm, centred and understanding as a trainer. Training and development is hard work. It’s not for the faint of heart. The following is an school’s answering machine message – it’s not real, it’s a joke. But on some days …. Caveat: while I […]
Tags: resilience
Can you sum up resilience in a song? Bella can – listen up.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
I had a stroke two years ago, my memory’s not so good. When I get down I simply sing… And with that I was introduced to the remarkable, resilient woman that is Mrs. Bella Kelly. I met Bella while working in a tiny Northern Ontario community where she’s currently living, though she originally hails from […]