Cultivate Talent Newsletter June 2011

1. Cultivate Talent
June 2011 Issue 2 Engaging Talent, Building Trust, Inspiring Change www.cultivatetalent.biz
Cultivating Change;
Leading Teams in Changing Times
We are seeing more organisations having to their team and business unit as critical as deciding what to do in the first
deliver a faster pace of change both in terms of Build better relationships to deliver place. It guides leaders as individuals on how to
how they operate and cultural shift, which is improved engagement, trust and be role models, motivators and set the right
involving them asking key questions of their empowerment tone within their teams to continually ask how
organisation; do I add value? and what will I do about it?
Focus on the right activities, alignment and
How do we ensure there is clarity of and buy prioritisation of work
in to our purpose, strategy, values and Clarity: Focuses on how to establish and then
To effectively manage change,
vision? maintain a clear direction which prioritises
transition and ambiguity along the way
activities and resources aligned to a clear
How can we provide transparency on the
strategy, and answers questions like where are
priority and focus on our activities and use of Our methodology provides for five core areas of
we going?
resources? leadership required to deliver the right outcomes
How do we ensure that the right things get supported by a suite of simple but effective tools
Environment: Setting the right tone and
done in the right way, aligned to our that leaders can pick up and employ at a
environment is critical to effective team work
strategic goals? moment's notice.
and high performance - how do we build trust
How do we develop an open leadership and work together to get where we need to be?
culture operating within an agreed It coaches leaders to be more situationally
framework? aware to improve their judgement in
Progression: Understanding operational
picking the right approach and tool. It
How do we engage our people to create effectiveness is not simply about getting tasks
also provides a better understanding of
vibrant networks, driving innovation and completed, but how you deliver, deal with
individual and team motivations, so that
improving performance? change, set stretch targets and performance,
leaders can lead people at the same time as
and continuously innovate. It gives boundaries
managing efficiencies and processes.
Cultivate Talent has created a and direction to what do we need to do to
Leading Teams Methodology, based on 40 improve?
Leading: First or last, the leadership of teams is
years of combined business experience and
client assignments, to answer these key Relationships: These are the most complex
questions and enable leaders at all levels to aspects of team work and achievement. It
operate within a single disciplined framework. provides useable shorthand to
making relationships work 1:1, in teams and
Using this framework enables them to: nodes within a network. It consciously asks
Provide common purpose and clarity for the question “how do we use our networks
and relationships to get better outcomes?”
For more information on how Cultivate Talent could help you or your business
improve performance levels then please feel free to contact us:
Adrian Woodstock Mark Thompson
adrian.woodstock@cultivatetalent.co.uk mark.thompson@cultivatetalent.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 7769 650960 Tel: +44 (0) 7917 305290