Enabling Change

That's you
leading change

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Facilitate with Confidence

Les facilitates a fun, friendly event to grow your skills to facilitate zappy, productive workshops and meetings, large and small.

This time we’ll especially focus on the 'Art of Decisions’ - how to facilitate your participants to make measured, well-informed decisions, no matter what the subject matter.

The cost: $660 incl GST. Discounts are available, see below.

Two enjoyable mornings: 8.45 am to 1.00 pm, via Zoom

Next workshop Tues 29 and Wed 30 April 2025.

Contact me for in-house training.

Open to all budding and blossoming facilitators.

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Changeology Master Class and project incubator

A insight-filled 'rapid project incubator' with Les Robinson.

Design innovative real life projects that excite groups or communities to do things they've never done before.

The cost: $660 incl GST. Discounts are available, see below.

Next workshop Tues 6 and Wed 7 May 2025. Contact me for in-house training.

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Discounts:
• Self-funded: 20% discount
• Community organisations: 20% discount
• Climate action projects: If you and at least one buddy are working on a climate action project, you all receive a 50% discount.

New resources

Passion Mashing

"I feel hit with a zapper!""

Revitalise Landcare and bushcare groups with this fun, inspiring workshop that harnesses the power of reinvention to spark new zest and ideas.

Plus we'll create irresistible messages to attract new members.

Click here for details.

Cartoonist versus motorways

Something different: a fun collection of anti-motorway cartoon stories, at once satirical and serious, historic and perpetually relevant.
Download here.

Engaging ideas (updated)

Here's the inspiring slide show we use to stimulate 'engaging tactics' brainstorms. Lots of you asked for it. (19Mb PDF)
Download here.

Systemology for small projects

Long term legacies come from changing systems, not people. Here are four practices for building effective system change into even the smallest project.

Messages for 'YES'

Communic- ation for change is different to education. We're asking people to invest effort and negotiate risk. Here are 8 rules.

Facilitator's checklist

Facilitating workshop or meeting isn't that hard. It just needs careful planning. Here's an all-purpose 3 page checklist of stuff never to forget.

Facilitating a 'solutions engine'

How to apply a gathering of minds to create solutions to any problem, no matter how wicked - Les's tried and proven method.
Download here.

Everything strategy

I'm proud to share this succinct, comprehensive guide to designing change projects.
It has the most vital behaviour change strategies and design processes, all illustrated with colourful examples which show how they're within the capacity of even the most humble project.
Download here (it's free).

(If you're attending a Changeology workshop, this is pre-reading!)

More goodies here.

Changeology blog

“Les helps teams and organisations to...

CULTIVATE THE WISDOM OF GROUPS
He facilitates the strategic brilliance of gatherings, summits and conferences.
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SOLVE PUZZLES
He works with you to devise 'long fix' solutions to tricky social, health and organisational challenges.
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SKILL UP YOUR TEAM
He expands people's skills in change management, facilitation, innovation and change thinking.
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MAKE CHOICES EASY
He provides lots of labour-saving tools to improve decision-making.
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Quote de joy

"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. "
- Albert Einstein

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning." - Albert Camus

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