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20 February 2011
** UPDATE ** Continuing Transformation in Public Sector
Chameleon Works has recently supported a public sector organisation through the challenge of rebuilding teams in the front line of Adult Social care. The work we completed followed a period of redundancies and restructuring as part of large scale cuts. Like most public sector organisations the people in the front line operational roles have seen changes to the people they work with, tasks they complete and processes they follow. The scale of the changes can mean that individuals either adapt quickly or derail completely.
01 January 2011
** New ** Innovative Applications of MBTI™
Deepen your knowledge of Personality Type at our new event on 15th February 2011 at Wallacespace, St Pancras. Learn about the model of Levels of Type Development and how to apply them to organisational change or coaching scenarios, and experience the new application of MBTI and Wine Tasting to add fun and depth to your leadership development events.
23 September 2010
IBM Top Talent Programme 2010
Working in conjunction with Joe O'Mahoney from Cardiff Business School, Chameleon Works was selected to support the IBM Top Talent Programme 2010. The programme was designed inhouse to support the core value of innovation in IBM and Chameleon Works ran the "Innovation Live" session which measured the Innovation Potential of the consultants using the Innovation Potential Indicator™ and other interactive excercises.
05 March 2010
British Association for Psychological Type (BAPT) Conference 2010
Chameleon Works founder Deborah Fleming presented an overview of the Personality of Wine™ event to an engaged audience of Business Psychologists and Type Practitioners at their annual conference in Milton Keynes in March.
17 February 2010
Chameleon Works Founder Deborah Fleming Contributes to New Book
Management Consulting is both a challenging, invigorating and complex profession. Organisations continue to need consultants and their specialisms. Practitioners continue to need to deliver quality with tight attention to cost. The recession has tested both the purchasing and the supply of it and the pace of the Consultancy Life-Cycle continues to be challenged.
Dr Joe O'Mahoney, Lecturer in Organisational Studies at Cardiff University Business School, has brought together a full critique of the profession, the market issues and the theory of Consulting in one "bible" for practitioners and purchasers of Management Consulting. The book covers...
13 October 2009
** New ** The Personality of Wine™
In today’s highly competitive environments, teams in organisations need to adapt quickly to different customer and stakeholder needs. Teams more able to “flex” and tailor their communications to appeal to different personalities can increase their customer and employee engagement.
Chameleon Works has developed the new Personality of Wine™ event which provides teams with an opportunity to learn how to engage different MBTI Personality Types in their ideas and communications. We use the fun platform of wine tasting to give leaders and teams opportunity to test their new skills. We are experts in wine and psychology using new and exciting wines to provide a varied and sensory learning experience.
01 June 2009
Your Organisation Needs You (... to adapt to change)
Business Issue:
The credit crunch means that organisations are working harder and tighter than ever before. Employees are handling increased complexity in their jobs, facing cutbacks and even pay freezes.
It is even more important for organisations to retain rather than re-train! The need for consistent, regular and “Type-Friendly” communication is high to give reassurance to nervous employees.
In leading change, this calls for attention to detail, (listening to the needs of individuals), learning from previous experience, (making sure the culture adapts to new markets), together with delivery of a vision that is believable and inspirational to reach a variety of employees who, by the way, all need something they haven’t heard before! (No pressure there then!)
01 April 2009
How to Communicate Effectively
The emphasis on communicating effectively has never been greater. The “current climate” has become common rhetoric in organisations. Add to this the fact that 98% of change projects fail because not enough attention is paid to communicating effectively and you have a new complexity to how you make change safe for people.
It is not enough to just inform people of what is happening but a necessity to inform people of what is NOT going to happen. It is an opportunity to use the ambiguity of recession to re-evaluate, be creative or completely change your habits and rituals. When implementing change in organisations, there are many facets of communication that need to be addressed:
