Change Designs Blog

Personal stories, insights & real world experiences

The real life experiences of being a consultant is usually richer, stranger, more humorous, and more magical than any model or training prepares us for. Whether you are doing strategy, project management, change management, innovation, leadership, coaching, organizational development or any other work that involves helping a group to achieve a goal, you will find that following a model, or doing the actual job, is only 10% of the total experience.

This blog contains real life experiences, stories, and insights from consultants who work in all different areas.

If you are thinking of changing your career and want to know what it is really like to be a consultant or coach, a change agent or facilitator, and travel to different towns and organizations, then this blog is for you.

If you are already consulting, then you will appreciate sharing experiences and insights with people who understand you.

The personal stories, insights, and wisdom contained in this blog, describe real life experiences that no book, model or training can ever prepare you for.

What is the Change Designs Blog?

The Change Designs blog is about sharing real world experiences, insights, lessons learned and stories at work. This includes anything that has to do with :

• Positive experiences and magical moments when working with teams and individuals.
• Problems and difficulties faced when consulting, facilitating, coaching or training or travelling to different environments, organizations, or cultures.
• Humorous situations or stories that other consultants, faciltitators or coaches will relate to.
• Lessons learned from challenging experiences.
• Insights into what works and why.
• Insights about what doesn’t work and why.
• Stories or ideas to inspire you.

While many topics are started by Ruth Tearle, all members are encouraged to comment on each topic and submit stories of their own practical experiences.

What makes the Change Designs Blog different from other blogs or discussion groups?

 

Sometimes in our lives, we get to experience a moment, when we feel powerful, full of energy, truly alive.

A moment when we are inspired by a goal, and obstacles are fascinating puzzles to be solved.

And we feel successful.

The Change Designs blog is a community of like minded people who want to share with one another:

• Practical experiences about magical moments at work.
• Real life experiences of challenges and difficult experiences.
• Funny, real life stories.
• Lessons learned from experience.
• Insights into what works and doesn't work, and why.
• Inspiration.

The Change Designs Blog is designed for sharing of real life stories and insights gained from practical experiences. By sharing these, we can learn from one another, support one another, and inspire one another.

The do's and don'ts of posting on the Change Designs Blog.

Do

We encourage you to share your practical real life experiences – stories, insights or lessons learned, that you believe people in the Change Designs community will find useful, valuable, funny or inspirational.

Don't

Please do not:

• Share models or theories – as there are many other discussion groups or forums catering for them.
• Use this as a forum to promote yourself. Please don’t ask us to promote your product, book, website,  service, or blog post here. If you'd like to advertise on the Change Designs website, rather e-mail us for a rates card, and have your advert attractively posted in a advertising section.
• Ask specific questions about solving a problem: If you want to solve a problem you have, rather direct it to "Ask the Coach"

How to use the Change Designs Blog.

1. Go to the Change Designs blog posts.
2. Read any blog post and the related comments. If you'd like to comment, on any blog post, then complete the "Post a comment" form at the bottom of each post and press submit.
3. If you'd like to submit your own story or real life experience, then email it us. We will then publish it in a new blog post - subject to editorial review.

Help to make the Change Designs Blog a powerful support for yourself and others.

Our wish for this community, is simply this.

By reading through the blog posts and comments, you will feel energized and renewed every time you read a post. And you will return to work, ready to tackle whatever situation you find yourself in.