Articles and tools for :

Unleash the magic within your organization ...

Articles and tools on:

• Strategy or strategic planning.
• Strategy implementation.
• Organizational development.
• Change management at a project or organizational wide level.
• Innovation.
• Coaching.

When you want to:

• Build a new vision, values or brand.
• Cascade a new vision or strategy. Change a culture.
• Develop a change strategy.
• Manage complex situations such as a merger or a restructure.
• Implement a strategy or project that cuts across many areas.

Unleash the magic within your team ...

Articles and tools relating to:

• Generate excitment around a new strategy or culture.
• Develop a strategic plan for your area.
• Do change management, coaching or innovation.
• Facilitate a workshop.
• Implement a project.
• Solve a complex team problem.

When you want to get your team to:

• Take responsibility.
• Act as a united team.
• Change their paradigms.
• Contribute to a new strategy, change or project.
• Take positive action to achieve goals, projects o r changes.
• Find creative ways around problems.
• Bounce back after a restructure, merger or retrenchment.
• Live your organization's values.

Unleash the magic within yourself ...

Articles and tools relating to:

• Develop a personal life and career strategy.
• Get focused.
• Find your passion.
• Reinvent your life.
• Get your mojo back.
• Solve problems that are holding you back.
• Take positive actions to achieve goals.
• Reconnect with your creative self.
• Create a business out of your passion.
• Bounce back after being retrenched.

Whether you are a CEO, a leader, a coach, a strategist, a consultant, a manager, a change agent, a facilitator or an educationalist, or someone who just needs a bit of inspiration - this site is for you.

We provide articles, tools, mentoring and training around the following topics:

• Strategy formulation.
• Visions, values. Strategic planning. Change strategy.
• Culture change.
• Change Management.
• Facilitation.
• Innovation.
• Strategic Trends.
• Inspiration.
• Coaching.
• Mergers. Restructures. Solving complex organizational problems.
• Organizational Development.

These topics are grouped under : Me, My Team and My organization.

We have found from our 20 years consulting experience in strategic planning, change management, leadership development, coaching and general facilitation, that:

Success at work is not only as a result of hard slog.
Rather, the best results come when a leader
unleashes the magic within individuals and teams.

To help you to unleash the magic within others, we offer a mix of:

• Articles containing a mix of practical experience and wisdom.
• Practical tool kits for coaches, leaders, consultants and faciltitors, designed to save you months of slog, and help you to achieve results in a magical ways.
• Practical tools for your teams to use, that will make it easy for them to be successful.
• Beautifuly packaged gifts in the form of books and inspirational cards. These are carefully created to reinforce your own work.
• A member zone - where you can get a range of useful consulting tools, 'how to' documents, concept documents, leader guides, advice, free gifts and special offers. You can also access:
  • The 'Ask the guru' advice column, where you can post a quick question about something that is troubling you, and have it answered by a guru.
• The Change Designs Blog where you can share personal stories of consulting, coaching and facilitation experiences with others. Stories that describe positive or magical experiences, stories depicting struggle and difficulty as well as humorous stories. About the Change Designs Blog.
• A shop - where you can indulge yourself with gifts and tools to make your work life easier, and more exciting.
• A subscription to our free newsletter.
• Our consulting arm provides customised training courses and consulting designs.

To make it easy for you to navigate, we have grouped a wide range of topics under 3 levels. Me, my team and my organization.

For each of these areas, we have grouped the types of topics you may be interested into 3 themes:

• Me: Simplify. Inspire. Apply.
• My team: Team strategy. Team innovation. Team leadership.
• My organization: Strategy. Innovation. Change management.

You can easily navigate to what you need either by topic, or by level.