Consulting

Powerful interventions which are custom designed to solve your unique organizational problems and challenges.

If you are:

• Formulating a strategy or strategic plan.
• Crafting a vision.
• Building a scenario.
• Reviewing progress and setting new goals.
• Changing a paradigm.
• Developing a new brand.
• Needing to identify new opportunities to reach a sales target.
• Communicating a strategy, culture or project in a way that gets people to commit their time and energy towards making it work.
• Creating a culture based on customer service, innovation, or building a culture to support your strategy.
• Executing a new strategy, change or system.
• Developing a culture of continuous improvement.
• Introducing performance management as a way of building a culture within which people can achieve easily and develop themselves.
• Involved in managing change, innovation, strategic planning, facilitation or coaching.
• Building a team of change agents, change champions or innovation champions.
• Managing the people side of a merger.
• Dealing with complex change in your organization.
• Developing a change strategy.
• Sustaining a change.

With our vast consulting experience in these areas, we provide:

• Consulting to the CEO and his executive team.
• Custom designed interventions.
• Custom designed training courses.
• Training the trainer.
• Practical tools to empower your own teams.
• Practical support to your in house consultants, leaders, managers or specialist teams.

 

 

In-house training

Powerful training: Real results.

Change Designs Courses are powerful in that they deal with real life organizational challenges in a way that blends rational, emotional and spiritual intelligence. All Change Designs courses are:

• Practical. Based on vast real world experience.
• Empowering and easy to understand. Delegates learn by doing. Delegates get to try out our practical tools and techniques for themselves during the workshop– so they feel more confident about using them back at work.
• Innovative. Fun and exciting.
• Relevant. Up to date.
• Build interdisciplinary team work. Group work encourages delegates from different areas to understand and befriend people in different departments, functions and SBU's.
• Inspirational. Delegates leave courses feeling energized, and often comment that the courses are ‘life changing’.

Skills development : We combine training, practical tools and practice.

As part of our courses, delegates practice using our tools on their own work challenges, making their learning relevant and practical. They also receive a practical toolkit they can use back at work. The tools are published by Change Designs Publishing, and combine the intellectual capital from Ruth Tearle’s vast experience in consulting and facilitation, with the fresh look and feel of Mike Blignaut’s creative designs.

Train the trainer option and customization.

All courses are available as a train-the-trainer option. The practical toolkit at the core of each Change Designs course, makes it easier for trainers to learn to facilitate a Change Designs course. We customize our courses to suit your situation, and train at your chosen venue.

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In-house training catalogue

Continuous improvement training.

• The Quest for Continuous ImprovementContinuous improvement with a magical twist. A motivating way to launch a continuous improvement process or culture. Get the toolkit and skills to make improvements, solve problems and make better decisions.

Performance management training.

• Colour Me Magic. Performance management with a splash of magic.Avoid tedious performance management systems which employees believe are a waste of time. Instead use Colour Me Magic to give your employees a valuable gift that they can use throughout their careers.

Strategic Management and strategic planning training and customized courses.

• Powerful strategic planningStrategic planning training. Develop a strategic plan. Combine team participation, strategic research & analysis, with creativity as you facilitate a strategic planning workshop.

• Strategic Alignment workshopHow to align every element of your organization to your strategy, values or processes.

• Organisational Values workshopChanging a culture. Create a new set of organisational values. Cascade your organisational values throughout your organization.

• Leading a strategic changeFor project managers, leaders, facilitators, consultants, OD professionals, engagement managers who need to lead change at a strategic level. How to diagnose your organization and determine what to change.

• Develop a change management strategy or planDevelop a change strategy or plan to implement a strategy, strategic projects or cultural change programmes.

• Strategic implementation Plan to implement any strategy or project. Use systems thinking.

 

Innovation training and customized courses

• Practical InnovationAn innovation course to develop new innovative and profitable ideas that will grow the business and excite your team.
• Business development - Reach your targetA business development and strategic planning workshop to help teams find innovative ways to achieve a sales or profit target

Change management training and customized courses

• The Change LeaderA powerful workshop filled with practical tools and methods for anyone involved in leading organizational change.

• Change Agent and change champion training. Equip change agents or change champions with the knowledge, toolkits and confidence they need to facilitate change in their own areas.

• Change training for managersEquip your leaders with the knowledge and tools they need to support their change agents and champions. Build a change infrastructure that works.

• The change agents magic toolkitManage resistance, communicate the benefits of change, get buy-in, manage difficult people and motivate your team to implement any change
• Powerful change consultingA change management course for internal and external change consultants. How to ensure your change delivers the results your clients want. Practical toolkits for being a powerful change management consultant.

 

Managing Mergers & Acquisitions training and customized courses

• Successful mergers & acquisitions. A morale boosting workshop to help managers and employees develop practical strategies for coping successfully with a merger or acquisition.

 

Facilitation training and customized courses

• The facilitators magic toolkit Tools and techniques for creative facilitation that gets real results. Inject energy into any meeting, workshop or conference.

• Powerful facilitation Learn to design and facilitate a workshop successfully. Achieve the goals your clients want.