About Change Designs
ABOUT CD

 

Contact Ruth Tearle at +27-21 712 2154 or email ruth@changedesigns.co.za

 
About Ruth Tearle
   

for facilitators, coaches, consultants.

Change Designs Publishing is a one-stop shop for facilitators, consultants, facilitators and team leaders where you can get:

  • Experience which is packaged in a way that will help you to achieve real results.
  • A wide range of tools to add magic to your own workshops and help you to delight your clients. Use our professionally packaged tools to sell yourself, and get instant credibility.
  • Slides and articles to help you educate and entice others about what needs to be done to achieve the results they want.
  • Make your own offering feel like a gift.
  • Tools that allow you to focus on being a true faciltitator during a workshop. This mean you can spend your energy on bringing out the best in others, rather than on presenting.

Change Designs Publishing provides tools
for the intelligent facilitator/coach or consultant
who likes to empower others!

Who buys change Designs tools?

Experienced practioners looking for something fresh to add to their existing offering.

Many of our clients are experienced practioners. They have their own methodologies and courses. But they want to inject some excitement, energy and inspiration into their own workshops and events. They buy books, cards, games and activities to support what they are already doing.

New consultants, facilitators, coaches or team leaders.

Our tools allow new consultants, facilitators or coaches, or those wanting to broaden the scope of their experience, to facilitate in areas they don't have much experience in.

Practioners who want a wide range of tools - immediatly.

Some consultants have produced one or two of their own products. They know it is hard to sell a single product/service to a client. And they don't have the capital needed (R80 000 upwards) for each new product.So by adding our tools to theirs, they offer their clients an attractive range of products.

Facilitators and consultants who wish to empower others.

Facilitators and consultants often reach the stage where they want to go beyond advising, educating or facilitating workshops.They want to empower teams of people to be able to do things for themselves. Whether it is training change agents, innovation champions, team leaders, or champions in different countries or regions - they find our tools invaluable.

A one or two day workshop built around our tools is the equivalent of a 5 day workshop without the tools.During the workshop, delegates practice using our tools in a safe environment. They build skill and confidence. After the workshop, delegates have their own toolkit to use for life.

Practioners use our tools to help market themselves.

Many of our clients are in their own businesses. They use our tools and professionally designed advertisements in the following ways:

    • Getting access to new clients.They forward our attractive adverts on to potential clients that they want to meet. They offer to show the products to them. The attractively packaged tools provide them with instant credibility. While they are showing off the product - they often ask use the opportunity to find out what the client is really interested in. They then land up selling a combination of our tools and their workshops.

    • Offering something new to old customers. Often independent practioners have a few favourite clients who have already bought most of their offerings. And because they trust the practioners, the clients are ready to buy anything new from them. However it takes time to develop new workshops and products. When the customers see the beautifully packaged tools, - and they understand how they reinforce the work already done, they want them. The more savvy of our practioners, often offer to facilitate a workshop around our products to their clients.

What else we offer to consultants, facilitators and coaches.

advantage programme

For independent consultants, coaches and facilitators. Either those who are starting their businesses or those who want to grow it to a new level. Join our Advantage Programme. As a member, get help with marketing your business, building credibility, setting up systems, and discover ways to earn while you sleep. Get big discounts on our training courses, Design Days, and our wide range of tools and products.

design days.

When you need to design a training course, a consulting process or an event - attend a design day. Visit our creative studio in Cape Town, where you will have everything available in one place to help you design and package your event. Piggy back on the skills and years of work done by Ruth Tearle (experienced consultant) and Mike Blignaut (photographer and designer), and look like an instant professional.

knowledge cafe.

Visit the knowledge cafe for articles, courses, website links, networks of other consultants and good reads on strategy and change management.

what we offer to internal consultants.

Licenced workshops

"A good facilitator that works with poorly designed material gets embarrassed. 
An ineffectual facilitator working with excellent material won't get results."

Change Designs provides:

Don't simply manage change. 
Create a change capability inside your own organisation
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Ensure you get the full benefits out of any change process: Ensure that:

  • Your changes are sustained beyond the first communication.

  • Change skills are transferred to your own organisation.

  • You have an in-house change capability ready to tackle future changes with confidence. 

Develop a network of in house change consultants in your organisation. Develop your HR or change management department in the skills they will need to act as internal change consultants. Or train your entire middle management to become change leaders. Or develop a network of change agents from each department or branch.

Use the Change Master series to develop your middle managers, change agents, or internal consultants into Change Masters. Choose the appropriate courses for your needs: "The Change Leader", "Powerful Facilitationr" ,"Practical Innovation" and "Out of the Box Strategic Planning."

 

Resistance to change

Resistance to change

change agents booklet

Role of a change agent



Change

Mastering Personal Change Book



Motivational cards

Unleash the magic cards


Change management


Ride the Wild Tiger book 


change management

The change puzzle

change management

Winning the Game of Change

Facilitation


Powerful Facilitation cards


Strategic management


Strategy facilitation cards

Motivational cards

Blackboard Wisdom cards

Motivation

Inspiration
Bubbles cards

Motivational cards

Ride the wild tiger cards

Purpose and passion

Discover your purpose

Strategic Trends cards

Strategic trends  2008/9