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:

• Based on 20 years of real world experience.
• Empowering, practical 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 them back at work.
• Innovative. Fun and exciting.
• Relevant. Up to date.
• Build 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 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

 

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 workshopReengineered your business? Use our powerful workshop to align your culture to your new strategy, structure or system.

• 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 an integrated change strategy Develop an integrated organizational wide change strategy to implement your corporate strategy, strategic projects and 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.

 

 

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.
• Implementing a new strategy, change or system.
• 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.
• Applying any consulting model such as ADKAR, or Kotter and needing practical support.

With our 20 years of consulting experience in these areas, we provide:

• 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.

 

 

Public courses

We offer the popular Change Master Series of public courses. The courses are run in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa - or in joint ventures with international conference organizers anywhere in the world.

Tap into the vibrancy of South Africa's rainbow nation. Learn how to mix rational, emotional and spiritual intelligence, as you learn how to facilitate strategy, change management, innovation or facilitation - in a way that excites, inspires and delivers real results.

Testimonials

• "I find your workshops enticing. You give enough to satisfy the requirements for a person that needs the practical tools, but only some will find the golden key that opens up amazing worlds of wisdom." Emma van der Merwe. Nedbank
  
• "One word sums up your wonderful course - creativity! It had quite an impact on me as it was dynamic, relevant, and a huge plus is that you've opened up a whole new world for me. It’s been a while since I last felt so creative and inspired - now I can't wait to put into practice all we learnt. Plus, it was wonderful to meet such interesting and diverse people on the course. The choice of venue was particularly good and the little touches showed just how much effort you put into the details in order to make the class feel very special. Thanks! Adriana Chickesh Center for Business Knowledge Ernst & Young"

Strategic planning

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

Innovation

• Practical InnovationHelp a team to be innovative. Develop exciting and profitable ideas that will rejuvenate your business and the personal energy of your team.

Change Management

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

• 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

Facilitation

• 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.

Design Day

• Design dayDesign your own workshop, training course or event in a single day at our studios.