Imagine that your beloved furry friend keeps escaping from your yard through a gap in the fence. Exasperated and not wanting to lose her again, you’re temporarily flummoxed as you don’t have the time or cash to build a new fence.What’s a person to do?Why add a wooden spoon of course.I … [Read more...] about Ramping up your creativity with a dog, a fence and a spoon
This Fast Company article, by Drake Baer, caught my attention. It's a Stop Life Lens' delight.Contemplation. Reflection. Analysis.All soothing words to & strengths of a Stop Life Lens®. Too much efficiency (a.k.a. being hellbent on action) can stifle innovation. Check out the excerpts below … [Read more...] about Einstein's Problem-Solving Formula, And Why You're Doing It All Wrong
Organizers, Prepare To Swoon: “The Art of Clean Up” Puts Messy Reality In Extreme Order" is a Fast Company article that had me laughing.It could be renamed "Calling all Carrot Life Lenses®."Does that kind of order, that kind of organization make you want to vomit? Make you feel constricted? … [Read more...] about Organizers, Prepare To Swoon: “The Art of Clean Up” Puts Messy Reality In Extreme Order
The following are excerpts from a Fast Company article by Katerina Walter (read the whole article here) - great examples of two very different perspectives working well together, each complimenting & filling in, the other's shadows without diminishing their own bright spots.The first example … [Read more...] about How Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook Gave New Life To An Old Management Style (from Fast Company)
If you didn't catch all the posts this month simply peruse & click what's below.Here's the Rock.Paper.Scissors' monthly training & development round up for the month of November.Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small … [Read more...] about Training & development learning well November blog post round up
I just got back from doing a plenary at the Social Media Strategies Summit in London - it was a blue sky, brainstorm balanced with a down & detailed account of how to enhance social media skills.Allow me to uncover & unwrap the highlights for you:Yasmin Joomraty from Warner Brothers … [Read more...] about Social Media Strategies Summit Unwrapped – 6 resources from the London conference
"The greatest achievements happen in the overlap of three things: Your genuine interests, skills, and opportunities. To find success, work within your overlap," says Scott Belsky in a Fast Company article Work Smart: how to find your sweet spot (check him out in the video below).I'm often asked … [Read more...] about Training & development interests, skills & opportunities a la Scott Belsky
The roots of engaging training can be found anywhere. You do however have be on the lookout.Some of my ideas have come from advertisements - yep ads. When I say I'm going to be talking about hairy, naked guy (above specimen) I can see participant's question marks dancing in the air. … [Read more...] about Looking for inspiration? Try an ad (especially these unusual ones from Fast Company)
The saying, curiousity killed the cat, means if you're too curious harm may come to you. That's true. In some circles curiousity causes problems (say if you're a bank teller trying to figure out how to steal money) but in the case of corporate training curiousity is worth its weight in … [Read more...] about Curiousity may have killed the cat but it's a trainer's best friend
The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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