If you're like most people, you probably answered "yes", at least to some degree. Why do you think that is? After all, new ideas and innovations can bring about significant improvements in our work and lives. It's not that you don't like innovation, it's just that the implementation of something new means that change is required. Change, at face value, represents an upset in the status quo – a disruption of your comfort zone.

Some people need constant change to keep them interested and happy, they seem to enjoy the constant disruption to their lives. For the majority of people though, the language used when talking about change is often "coping with" or "surviving".

At Shaping Change we believe that you deserve more than this - you deserve to learn how to thrive in change.

We know that change is inevitable and there’s really no way around it. But people still fret over it, worrying about what’s lurking around the corner and wondering when the proverbial “other shoe” is going to drop.

And yet, this is no way to go through life!

In fact, recent research suggests that stress alone is behind 60% of all human illness and disease, with 3 out 4 doctor visits being due to stress-related ailments. Not only does stress cause you to lose sleep at night (which can drastically impact your productivity and mental awareness), but it can also shrink your brain as it reduces grey matter in regions tied to your emotional and physiological functions!

Simply put—change, and the stress that it very often brings, is taking a toll on people every day.

So what if I told you that there’s a way to ease the resistance, stress, uncertainty, worry and feelings of dread that come with change…? What if I told you there was a different way to manage change in your life? A way that you could remove the stress from the constant change of our busy lives, and learn to thrive in the face of it?

So many people talk about coping with change

Search Amazon books for ‘coping with change’ and you’ll get 5,685 results, and that doesn’t take into account all of the online courses and blogs that deal with change. My name is Ros Cardinal and I am the founder of Shaping Change. I am an accredited Change Manager and an Organisational Behaviours expert, and have spent the last 20 years plus working with organisations and leaders to help them cope with changes – changes in their businesses, and changes in their lives.

I have written articles on the topics of change and leadership that have appeared in online publications like Huffington Post, Leaders in Heels, eMile: People Development Magazine. I have also recently been published in the 2014 book “Australian Entrepreneur”.

Throughout my career, I have helped thousands of people learn tools and techniques to improve their coping skills with change. Below are some excerpts from unsolicited emails, received from recent clients that I led through the material in these courses.

Our courses have been developed to focus on the individual process of working through change, and understanding how you can manage that process more effectively. Some people work well with reading a book and learning for themselves, others learn more successfully with spoken content, and then there are those that work best when they are guided through a process.

The current courses on offer will provide you with video content, slides and workbooks to give you tools, tips and advice on managing change in your own life, and transforming how you deal with it.

All of our courses come with a risk-free 30 day money back guarantee. So, if you do not believe the content will help you thrive through change and improve your resilience to change in your life, you can request your money back. We won't challenge you, or make you prove it to us - but we will ask for honest feedback, if you're willing to provide it.

Change – it’s not just something that happens to other people

Change, and how people behave in change, is not only one of the topics that I have studied for many years. I, like all of you, have lived through the experience of significant changes in my own life.

At the age of 42 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The words “you have cancer” are quite probably amongst the scariest words a person will hear in their lives. However, I was able to draw on my knowledge of change, emotional intelligence and human behaviour to not only get through the treatment, but to move forward – to leave my corporate job and start a consulting business. My aim wasn’t to just survive cancer – it was to thrive. To use the experience as a springboard for growth.

Of course, dealing with my surgery and treatment over that time, I wasn’t always able to see the opportunities in the change – sometimes it was enough to survive each day. I can vividly remember days when I couldn’t see a future, where I was certain I would not recover from the cancer, or the radiotherapy that was burning and scarring my body. But, when the pain would subside, and I was able to use these techniques to rediscover the optimism and energy to cope with the situation, I would take stock of the lessons along the way. Then, being a trainer and facilitator, I thought of how I could help other people apply these lessons to their own lives.

This led me to develop a suite of programs to help people do what I did – to thrive in change, rather than just surviving it.

The Programs

Change can be stressful, but you don’t have to let it wreak havoc on your life. The sooner you embrace the inevitable changes that occur in life, the sooner you can start seeing the opportunities held within change, and begin thriving on EVERY level.

In Thriving in Change, you’ll learn about:

In Transitions and Transformations, you'll develop a personal action plan for dealing with change as you learn about:

You'll also discover...

With these in-depth programs, you’ll be armed and equipped with everything you need to face change fearlessly and preserve your peace of mind!

Don’t spend any more time feeding stress and anxiety because of your resistance to change. Learn how to manage change effortlessly and start taking back the reins in your life.

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