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Information to help you laugh, learn and lead

All links are to our online e-newsletters, complete with articles and related resources (with the odd media article thrown in).

• It’s not about the cookie! The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

• The 4th annual To do, To stop doing & To’odle compilation

• Seeking Happy Holidays 2012

• 7 things Learning & Development professionals can learn from HubSpot’s Chief Marketing Officer, Mike Volpe

• Failure to Communicate (how to avoid the ‘take it, take it, have a cow’ con res strategy)

• Culture, change & creativity, an interview with musician Wazimbo

• Using Social Media as a training tool- Lights, Camera, Action!

• Fire Starter Sessions – a soulful practical guide to creating success on your own terms

• Switch – how to change things when change is hard’ – a review of the book by the Heath brothers

• Storytelling as a culture builder & how feather dusters & snow globes can help
  

• The 3rd annual To do, To stop doing & To’odle compilation

• What a former child solider has to say about forgiveness & more

• Seeking Happy Holidays

• Rethinking cubicles & classrooms – matching how our brains work with how business & boardrooms could work

• Four Ways Social Media is Transforming Workplace Learning(or how to be a space cowboy)

• Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?  Social Media & the 3 little pigs

• How to turn off your brain and ski to Thailand – a review of Douglas Merrill’s book (former CIO of Google) Organizing in the Age of Google

• Recruitment tips from one of the largest executive search firms in the world, Odgers Berndtson

• You make sex boring; getting intimate about speaking and training with Scott Berkun, author of Confessions of a Public Speaker

• Getting real with Dyana Valentine; is being on track and being true to yourself antithetical?

• Easy, free planning tools to help you get the year you want

• Happy Holidays; a musical tribute for you

• Learning about change & the power of music to rock the world from ‘Messenger of Truth’ Sara Mitaru

• Life Lenses officially launches today; Check to see if you won a free assessment

• Interview with global sensation Playing for Change; Sticking together through shared passions & serendipity©

• Interview with Julie Angus, the only woman to have ROWED across the Atlantic; Lessons learned from rowing through a hurricane©

• Laser hot business acumen from author and social media queen; White Hot Truth – an interview with Danielle LaPorte©

• Breaking out of the mould & becoming a linchpin: Seducing lizards (a la Seth Godin) & other ways to be a genius©

• Interview in Mompreneur: Laugh It Up! The Rock.Paper.Scissors approach to corporate and cross-cultural training

• Comedy and business; What Steve Martin can teach us about business©

• In branding higher learning, it’s out with the old school: Globe and Mail article about how to reach students ‘where they live’ which includes RPS’s work with client SFU

• How to do program evaluation that is feasible, useful, practical, accurate and creative: Bureacratese to Evalu-ease: putting fun and evaluation in the same sentence©

• How art and business are interlinked: How to catch a baboon – the art of business and the business of art©

• National Post article by Shannon Proudfoot, including quotes from Lee-Anne:Recession stress turns workplaces into ‘outwit, outplay, outlast’

• Gazette article by Shannon Proudfoot, including quotes from Lee-Anne: Let the work wars begin

• Corporate Incentive Travel article, Lee-Anne talks about Taking the Plunge: In the Right Place at the Right Time

• Finding your strengths newsletter and article: How Bear Mace Helped Me Discover My Strengths a la Marcus Buckingham©

• The benefits of mess newsletter and article: 5 habits of Highly Messy People- How messy desks are a sign of higher education and earning power©

• Peacebuilding and Business newsletter and article: 8 Lessons on Peacebuilding from Elder Statesman, the Honourable Joaquim Chissano, Former President of Mozambique©

• Creativity and Innovation newsletter and article: Doing More with Less in Tough Economic Times – Creative Ways to E.S.C.A.P.E.©

• Resilience newsletter and article: What do you do when life slaps you upside the face and then giggles about it after? Get resilient and get success©

• Communication newsletter and article: Tail Dogging Ain’t No Country Song – Finding your focus whether you have a dog or not©

• Creativity newsletter and article: Creativity in the Workplace – How to Save Money, Stay out of Court & Get Creative in Four Steps or Less ©

• Humour newsletter and article: The Strategic Use of Humour Can Be to Your Business Advantage ©

• RPS Humour in the workplace feature article in Benefit News Canada: Turning Ha Ha into Ah Ah

• Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution newsletter and article: While conflict is universal, how we deal with it isn’t ©

• Train the trainers newsletter and article: Three Elements of Powerful Learning for Trainers©

• Using Humour to Innovate: page 4 of Service BC Innovation, Volume 2

• Business in Vancouver humour article: Are we having fun yet? Executives beware: Your employee retention and productivity could depend on it

• The Gift of Humour: Humour and Healing article: ‘New Beginnings – Resources for Renewal and Transition for the adult burn community’