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This site has been designed to help anyone involved in
change management, strategic planning, innovation, leadership, coaching or facilitaton. Leaders in business or
government, change and strategy consultants, innovation champions, facilitators, HR professionals, marketing managers,
conference organizers and educationalists will find this site full of useful
articles, research, information, tools and links.
the change designs way.
Change Designs:
Where change is far more than a project or process.
It is an exciting adventure of self discovery, empowerment & achievement.
Our tools, training, and interventions are designed to take the drudgery out of change management, strategic planning, facilitation or innovation. We provide a space within which your teams can contribute in creative ways, to achieving any strategy or project. By mixing and matching our beautiful yet powerful tools and training courses, your teams will experience the delight that comes from achieving far more than they ever imagined possible. But the legacy we leave behind, is the excitement and confidence that your teams have - in their own ability, their own creativity, and their own power.
As a strategist, facilitator, coach, consultant, project manager or change agent/champion, use this page to help you find the right tools, knowledge, and training quickly. For more information contact ruth@changedesigns.co.za
Download our catalogue of practical change tools: Use our tools to help you diagnose, plan or design a change intervention. Give our beautifully packaged tools as gifts to reinforce what you are doing or to get people excited about your change. Use our tools to make your job as coach, facilitator, consultant, project manager or change agent easier. Or use them as practical activities on your own training courses. You can mix and match our tools to support your own interventions, or combine them with some of our training courses. Click on the corners to turn the pages. This is a flash file so you may need to have a flash player, and allow blocked content on your browser.
For a pdf version - or a printable version click here.
I've been working in project and change management in the public sector within Toronto, Canada for the past 27 years. It is refreshing and delighting to visit South Africa (the home of tremendous change) and to come across the tools and products that are available through Change Designs. The products are easy to use, creative and beautifully put together. They are chalk full of effective, practical techniques that have a positive impact and support the successful implementation of any change initiative. What I particularly like is that the tools can also be easily adapted within any existing framework or model! I’m so impressed with these products that I am happy to spread the word – that the Change Design products are a must have in any change agents resource tool kit!”
Susan, Ksiezopolski PMP® Manager, Project Management Consulting and Development Group,
Project Management Centre of Excellence
Toronto, Ontario.
For change consultants, change agents, project managers, facilitators, managers and anyone involved in change management.
Have you ever wished you could just buy 20 years of hard-won experience from a change maangement guru? Well now you can. Ruth Tearle has packaged all her best change management activities into the Magic Change Toolkit.
When you need to work on any change, simply select the relevant activity cards from the Magic Change Toolkit.
If you'd like to buy a Magic Change Toolkit for every manager or every change agent, email us to get special volume discounts.
This short, inspiring booklet will help new change agents understand and get excited about the role they will be playing.
A series of change management training courses and strategy, innovation and facilitation training, designed to equip leaders, champions, and consultants with the practical tools they need to manage change effectively.
We offer both public and customised in-house training courses. View our complete catalogue of courses here.
Download a course calendar of our public courses for September to December 2010 here.
Venues:
Johannesburg:
Radiance Guest House in Bryanston.
Cape
Town: Change
Designs Offices in Tokai. Email us for a map. For recommended accommodation within a 10 minute walk of our
offices see the
Morningside Cottages website. Remember to book early as there
are only 6 rooms! For other unseen accommodation nearby see Tokai
Accommodation.
For
more information, phone Ruth at 021 712 2154 or email ruth@changedesigns.co.za
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Quotes for in house courses are
available on request.
The purpose of this free newsletter is to provide topical articles, useful
hints, new change tools and news in the change management field.
In this issue:
What does real, sustainable change look like and feel like?
Ordinary change vs “AYOBA change.”
- The 7 factors that differentiate AYOBA change from ordinary change:
- The team that drives the change from inside the organisation.
- The way the drivers of change see the world.
- The way the drivers of change see themselves.
- The way the drives of change see an OD intervention, change or project.
- What the drivers of change focus on.
- What the drivers of change do.
- The tools used by the drivers of change.
What people remember.
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develop internal change consultants & change agents
Do you need to train change consultants internally? Do you want ordinary staff in branches or departments to act as change agents? Do you need to train up your own team of internal change consultants?
Many large organisations, and small change
consultancies, use Change Designs to train, develop and
mentor their change consultants.
We also provide designs for large scale
interventions. We provide custom designed workshops, and
professionally designed tools to support the many
different roles involved in a particular change
intervention. This could include trainers, change
consultants, change agents, leaders, middle managers and
individual employees. Training each group of people, and
providing them with the tools to be successful is a
powerful way of building capacity at many different levels
withing an organisation. Once a design has been done, we
also provide train the trainer courses so you can develop
and keep the skills in-house. Contact ruth@changedesigns.co.za to talk about your specific needs.,
Do you want to buy gifts for your change agents or change team? Use our Change Catalogue for beautifully packaged change tools. Read our training catalogue for training courses for change consultants and change agents. Or use our free slides to sell the idea of change to your executive.
 Need to sell the idea of change management or change agents?
Download our free presentation on "Change Management - how to achieve more with less stress."
Want to build a change agent network?
Download our free presentation on "Manage change better: Build your own change agent network."
ADKAR model: tools to support it, and make it practical and alive.
Do you need practical tools or training to make the ADKAR model work in your organisation?
Get a feel of how to train change agents for their new role. Mix tools and training.
Do you struggle with resistance? Are you afraid of 'difficult people sabotaging your change?' With this simple yet powerful tool, you can ensure that you, your leaders, your change agents and your managers never have to fear resistance again. For a mere R170 (or less for volume orders), get a tool that you can use over and over again, during any change.
How it works:
When introducing a change, people react in different ways. Some are unaware that the change applies to them. Some are angry or resistant. Some fear change. Others are excited. With the change cycle cards it doesn’t matter how people react.
All you have to do is listen to what people are saying.
Then match what they are saying to the relevant card in this pack. This will tell you what stage of the change cycle the person is in.
Read the back of the card to find out what action you need to take as a leader, to move them to the next stage of the change cycle.
A participative tool for planning the implementation of any
project or strategy.
R6900 per kit.
A participative tool for planning the
implementation of any project, strategy or cultural change. At the
start of any project, get all the stakeholders together to play 'Winning
the Game of Change'. This game is a powerful tool for
getting buy in, defining roles and planning the implementation of
any complex change. It is based on the best practices of
successful strategy implementation and change management. After
playing the game for a few hours, all stakeholders will walk away with
a comprehensive change strategy. This is an ideal starting
point for a consultant to use when planning a project with a
client.
Having problems with marketing? Want to
compete easily with the big consulting firms. Have a look
at The Change Designs Advantage Programme.
Design your own workshop, training course or event
in a single day in our studios. Piggy back onto skills, products
and years of work of Ruth Tearle, (consulting) and the databases
of images of Mike Blignaut (photographer and designer.) Get both
mentoring, designing and piggy back onto years of past work - all
in one shot. Click here for
more info
Discover and
live your passion
A book on discovering and living your passion.
“It
should be recommended reading at every college, university, in
every library.”
(Belinda Knight. CEO. The Graduate Institute of Management &
Technology)
See a video review and read
press reviews
Read author interview plus review
by
Jacquie Golding Executive Chairperson of Creda.
Published in
BluePrint Vol 3 2008
WHAT'S
USEFUL
This article highlights the different roles
played by the most highly skilled change agents or change
masters.
This article shows you to manage resistance to change and how to craft a powerful change management strategy.
This article pays tribute to the change agents - in both our personal lives and in organisations.
This article shows you how to build a network of change agents in your organisation. Whether you want to train managers as change agents, or staff in every division, read this article first.
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