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	Our Services and Products Building on our long standing practical experiences as analytical practitioners, we have developed a set of products, related to our focal areas, which promote learning and change at various organisational levels and for diverse dimensions in research and development. Products are methodologies and approaches being utilized to lead change processes towards intended outcomes and impacts. Some key products are: Learning to make Change / Innovation Competence: a high impact approach to develop innovation and change competence in individuals and teams. It focuses on change management, personal and team development, facilitation, action learning / research and systemic intervention. Learning to make change sees the transformation of individual as key to changing systems. Often individuals underestimate completely their creativity and power to change things and see themselves as victims of a non-conducive system. In Learning to make changeprocesses, which are built around learning programmes, individuals develop their entrepreneurial competence to innovate, to engage in change and to lead change in their teams and organisations. LearningTeam: a successful approach for team development integrating three components: joint conceptual vision and thinking, team development (behavioural) and personal development (individual). We apply LearningTeam as part of an integrated competence development in organisations and teams which is linked to the broader organisational orientation. LearningTeam aligns organisational change with team competence.  Facilitation for Change: an approach to process facilitation which aims at triggering change. It is based on a range of psychological methodologies, critical & appreciative enquiry, solution-oriented approaches and provocative elements to bring out the potential for transformation in groups and individuals. It is applied from local to international level and is the core of our facilitation methodology.  LearningSystem: a methodology for an alternative way of managing complex and dynamic development processes with quality and efficiency. LearningSystem is an outcome-based planning and management system for innovation processes. It was experientially developed in a number of initiatives, as a response to a lack of tools and methods to manage process-type interventions with an adequate quality and stakeholder involvement without being boxed and stifled by rigid linear planning systems.                                                                                                                              LearningSystem  (PDF) LearningWheel: a methodology for creating common frameworks for joint learning, action and knowledge management. The LearningWheel methodology generates experience-based conceptual frameworks, building on the lessons and success-factors of practical examples in an analytical and appreciative manner. The utility of the conceptualised experiences is in its application to enhance practice and learning. Some of the options where the LearningWheelframework has been successfully applied in practice embrace a) as a frame to design new programmes, b) as a frame to monitor and evaluate on-going programmes in a strategic way,  c) as a knowledge management tool or  d) as a tool to create a common understanding and vision.                                                             LearningWheel.(PDF) Mainstream: a methodology to integrate successful pilot approaches into the mainstream of organisational approaches. Often good pilot activities get forgotten because they are never integrated in the main organisational approaches and systems (‘pilotitis’). Mainstream offers a sound process to assess pilots for their merits by the organisations themselves and to design ways to integrate the positive aspects in their approaches.  We have applied Mainstream successfully in various fields of practice and a range of organisations .  Participatory Extension Approach – PEA: a well proven and successful approach for building local / farmer organisational capacity and innovation at grassroot level / the demand side of services. PEA focuses on developing farmers’ adaptive capacities. PEA builds up facilitation competences of field-level extension staff and community activists in order to these engage community members in collective action for tackling their major challenges. Farmers and extensionists involve together in joint learning interventions to bring about positive change in rural communities. We have been working with this approach since 1991 and have developed it to its maturity with success cases in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Dominican Republic, Mozambique, Cambodia etc.                                                           PEA (PDF)
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