The pros and cons of training stubborness, from a baboon’s point of view
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change, Learning & Development, Training
As a trainer you’re likely passionate about your content matter (if you’re not, uh, maybe you shouldn’t be teaching it). You probably have tried and true methods that you’re confident in and killer hip pocket activities that you have at the ready.
Great! Really. These are good signs of being assertive, on track and stubborn (in [...]
Tags: Change, lee-anne ragan, rock.paper.scissors, stubborn, Training
Make time to fall, fail and flounder
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change, Human resources, Learning & Development
Do you have something that you want to delegate but are holding back because it’s going to be tough? Need to hire but putting it off because orientation will take too long?
I recently hired a VA (Virtual Assistant). I’d been wanting to do this for a long time but had held back because I knew [...]
Tags: delegate, delegating, Get Friday, hiring, planning, VA, virtual assistant
Take a deep breath & remember to exhale
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change, Learning & Development
To get the things you’ve never had
Do the things you’ve never done
(Sign posted in a store I visited while at a community festival today.)
If you define ‘things’ beyond just stuff this is powerful.
It’s also timely.
I’m embarking on some radical new learning for some new business goals. Most of the time I’m jazzed up with excitement [...]
Tags: business, Business development, change management, Creativity, leap of faith, learning, lee-anne ragan, rock.paper.scissors
Chuck the flotsam & jetsam so you can see beyond the horizon
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change
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 and beyond.
Jettisoning [...]
Tags: Change, focus, lee-anne ragan, perspective, rock.paper.scissors, vision
What does it take to win Olympic gold in women’s ski cross?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change, Creativity
On the last day of the Every Woman conference I got to listen to Ashleigh McIvor, the first Olympic gold winner of the women’s ski cross at the recent Winter Olympics. She’s tall and lithe and she had some surprising things to say.
How often do you think she thought about winning gold?
Would it surprise you [...]
Tags: ashleigh mcivor, change management, Creativity, every woman, lee-anne ragan, olympics, rock.paper.scissors, vancouver, winter olympics, women's ski cross
When should I get a girlfriend says my 9 year old; identifying & escaping boxed in thinking
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change, Communication, Parenting
I was looking forward to this past weekend. Really looking forward to it. Both my husband and oldest kid were out of town, leaving some precious 1:1 time with my youngest. After dropping off my oldest at the ferry terminal to visit his grandparents my youngest and I headed back to the van, hand in [...]
Tags: change management, Creativity, learning, lee-anne ragan, rock.paper.scissors
The road to success may be under construction but you should always be the site foreman
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change, Wellness
Danielle Wilson, the smart and savvy President and Founder of Sweet Peanut Clothing Company suggests “we should know what our picture of success looks like. We should know what we want and then build a picture of what that looks like.”
I really tuned in when she walked her talk by relating how she’d turned [...]
Tags: change management, danielle wilson, e-series, forum for women entrepreneurs, fwe, learning, lee-anne ragan, rock.paper.scissors, success, sweet peanut clothing
How to start a social movement: leadership lessons from dancing guy
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business development, Change, Creativity
In my past post I wrote about how dance can be used as metaphor for getting into your work flow, your zone. Dance can be used for other things too. Such as how to start a social movement.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about the things that need to happen to ‘tip’ it into mainstream society in the [...]
Tags: dance, derek sivers, flow, follower, leader, leadership, lee-anne ragan, malcolm gladwell, rock.paper.scissors, social movement, tipping point
When scales don’t tell the truth- how do you judge success?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change, 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. Well.
My [...]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, Creativity, e-series, exercise, forum for women entrepreneurs, lee-anne ragan, perspective, rock.paper.scissors, scale, success, tim ferris
Fringe or Fray: how you see the edges affects how you see the core
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change, Conflict
I love lists. I love making them and checking them off. I like to think (some might say delude myself) that they help me have a sense of control over my life.
I can get a bit crazy when I feel I don’t have any control, when I’m unorganized, when I’m not sure where things are, [...]
Tags: 4 hour work week, change management, Creativity, four hour work week, learning, lee-anne ragan, mess, organized, perfect mess, perspective, rock.paper.scissors, tim ferris