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BENEFITS OF BEING A CHANGE DESIGNS MEMBER

The bottom line of being a member.

Use the Change Designs member zone to help you achieve complex results fast, look good, and turbo-charge your career. Our member zone has been designed to help you to:

• Achieve complex tasks - fast!
• Be successful in your role. Achieve high quality results.
• Get credibility. Look like an expert.
• Save time and money.
• Empower and inspire your teams whilst achieving results.
• Solve people related problems.

Contents of the member zone.

• Member only applied know how. Save yourself time and money with our concept documents, slide presentations, job profiles, how-to articles and other applications that you will need in your role.
• The 'Ask the guru' advice column. Save yourself thousands of rands in coaching or consulting fees, and post a quick question about something that is bothering you. Have it answered by a guru.

Want to know more?

We have designed the member zone for:

• CEO's and executive teams involved in strategy, strategy implementation, mergers or cultural change.
• Heads of change management, strategic planning, Innovation, HR, Employee Engagement, or Learning & Development.
• Project managers, middle managers and team leaders.
• Coaches, consultants and facilitators
• Change agents and innovation champions
• Lecturers at business schools or on a leadership development programmes.
• Graduates of leadership programmes who need ongoing support.
• Anyone considering a new career in strategy, change management, coaching, facilitation, innovation.
• Anyone looking for inspiration

How we help you to be more successful.

Achieve complex tasks - fast.

The Change Designs member zone helps you to achieve complex results - fast!

Do you need to:

• Prepare a presentation for your boss, or executive team fast? Have a look at our pre-prepared presentations. Download a presentation that took us weeks to prepare, and is based on 20 years of practical experience. Get it in an instant.
• Prepare a concept document. We might have already done it for you. Save yourself thousands of dollars of consulting fees, and weeks of time.
• Prepare a role description or job description. Are you starting a new function? Need to know what the head of a change management unit does, or a strategic planner's role. We've done it before. We've even documented it for you.
• Find out how to do complex consulting or coaching work easily. Tap into our 20 years of experience. Avoid doing all the things that don't work, in the real world and focus only on what we have proven, does work. Read our practical, how to articles for members only. Get practical. Get real results.

Be successful - achieve high quality results.

To be successful in anything complex, you need to practice

10 000 hours.

That translates into 4 hours a day for 10 years.

Source: Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers: The Story of Success.

In his research on what makes geniuses, Malcolm Gladwell discovered that successful people, whether they were musicians, business leaders, sportsmen, nuclear physicists, or Olympic champions all had one thing in common. Their success followed years of hard work and practice. Over 10 000 hours of practice!

We, at Change Designs have spent 20 years, 8 hours a day, practicing. We have worked in many different industries, in many cultures and many countries, working inside organizations and consulting externally in strategic planning, strategic implementation, values and culture, innovation, change management, employee engagement, and empowerment.

We have done the 40 000 hours of practice. You can use this expertise in minutes.

Our 40 000 hours of experience is combined with the many many hours of work we have spent in perfecting our tools, articles and know how.

Does your boss ever expect you to produce years of work, in a few days? If so, have a look at our member tools, and see if you can give them just that. Years of work, in a moment.

What you can get as a member.

Applied know how.

We have packaged work we have done in our 20 years of consulting into practical, easy tools for you to use. Save yourself time and money with our concept documents, slide presentations, job profiles, how to articles and other applications that you will need in your role. These have taken us months to develop and perfect. Normally  consultants working on hourly rates would need to charge you thousands of dollars for similar work. By piggybacking on work we've already done, you get this work, as part of the Change Designs member zone. 

We regularly add new articles and downloadable tools to our member zone. So keep refreshing your browser.

Ask the Guru. Quick answers to quick questions.

Need expert advice on how to handle a situation at work? Dealing with difficult people? Struggling with politics? Ask the guru for advice and get pointed in the right direction.

Have you ever been in a situation where you are bogged down with a problem? One that you spent days agonizing over. One that had a simple solution that you only discovered months later. Maybe you were facing resistance from a key player? Perhaps you didn't know how to handle a difficult person? You needed to sell the concept of change management or employee engagement to someone who just didn't understand.

Often, what may seem to be an impossible situation, has a easy solution - for someone who has experienced a similar situation before. This is what professional consultants, coaches and facilitators offer as part of their services.

But what if you don't want to spend thousands on professional advice, but need answers fast.

As a service to our members, we offer the "Ask the Guru" blog. While this is not intended to replace coaching or consulting, it does offer a quick expert answer to a quick question. For very complex questions that require complex integrated solutions, we may recommend traditional coaching or consulting.

How to sign up.

Go to our easy to use and secure shopping cart. Choose the member subscriptions catalogue and choose between a 4 month, 8 month and 12 months membership. A user name and password will be e-mailed to you. Use the login button at the top right to login.

How to use the member zone.

Once you've logged in, you will immediately have access to all the member articles and tools. Just click on them. A member portal menu button will appear at the top. This will give you access to:

• Ask the Guru - where you can submit questions.
• The Guru answers.
• A place where you can store and view your favorite products and announcements.
• Your own details which you can update at any time.

The second bottom line: Be credible. Become known for excellent quality work.

Become known for the high quality work that you do. Simply leverage off the the Change Designs brand.

With our support, the legacy you will be able to leave behind, is the excitement and confidence that your teams have - in their own ability, their own creativity, and their own power.

Our tools, training, and interventions are designed to take the drudgery out of strategic planning, change management, innovation or facilitation. We provide a ways to encourage your teams to contribute in creative ways, to crafting and achieving any strategy, culture or project. By mixing and matching our beautiful yet powerful tools in creative ways, your teams will experience the delight that comes from achieving far more than they ever imagined possible.