At Cardio we work actively in partnerships across your organisation to provide critical cultural insight. Our goal is to identify, surface, engage, connect and practically apply all the talent within your organisation to help you create your own internal ‘Intelligent Client’ consultancy capacity. Once you have enhanced your own in-house capability, we may be the last external consultants you’ll ever need.

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3. Active Culture. If your organisations culture
isn’t where you want it to be, how do you
begin to change it…
CARDIO are Corporate Culture Consultants, and we work in active partnerships with
organisations to provide critical cultural insight combined with corporate coaching. Using our
Corporate Culture Curriculum (delivered in partnership with The Open University), we help
you to see your internal working culture and values more clearly and then provide the action
learning coaching which enables you to resolve conflicts, as well as accelerate performance
and enhance change. With our accredited thinking, reflective, and meta-leadership techniques
we enable:
 A change in your colleagues’ attitudes…
 Better thought through plans…
 More value..
 Less cost…
 Co-ordinated individuality…
 Outcome-focused partnership working…
…Lets talk!

4. Transforming organisational energy and individual
motivation needs a disciplined, outcomes-led
framework. Energy needs to be directed. Individual
motivation needs to be focused…
We have developed a Corporate Culture Curriculum® with The Open University created
specifically to promote sustainable action learning. The programme is designed to
develop a deeper understanding of critical thinking, meta-leadership and reflective
skills, as well as significantly improve individual relationships and team working. We
coach your staff to help build your internal capability, capacity and skills to enhance:
 Active Culture – our Corporate Culture Transition Toolkit for leadership
changes, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing or partnerships
 Active Relationships – our Conflict Resolution and Brokering practice
 Active Talent – our Internal Consultancy Development Programme for
succession planning, retention and income generation
 Active Change– our Change Management Readiness Toolkit
 Active Communities – our Sustainability Benchmarking Toolkit for the
public sector, social enterprises and social entrepreneurs

5. We can help your organisation to:
 Identify, reflect and build upon your collective talent
 Create better connected, multi-disciplinary, outcome-driven teams
 Foster greater interdependence and collaboration inside and out
 Develop a shared, focused corporate and social purpose
 Achieve accredited best practice leading to higher performance
 Renew commitment to delivering your vision and goals
We coach your talented people to:
 Recognise, surface and develop their innate skills
 Develop breakthrough thinking for breakthrough performance
 Add seriously relevant value to their capability
 Connect with other networks of talent to drive change
 Engage with stakeholders for higher quality, needs-based delivery
 Fulfil their potential as accredited Active Thinking Practitioners

6. The potential for real and sustainable change-ability
begins at the heart of your organisation, at cultural
level, and it’s there that we need to shift thinking…
We will help you to resolve relationship conflicts and make effective, sustainable, but
practical improvements to your internal culture so you can confidently achieve your
strategic or operational goals. We are highly experienced and successful practitioners, not
typical specialist consultants, so we can help you to answer the really tough questions:
 what does your culture say about you?
 if your culture is driven by target-hitting, box-ticking performance
management, can it still become inspirational?
 how can your collective unique talent, innovative thinking,
individuality and adaptability be harnessed and nurtured?
 how can local social capital be recognised and leveraged?
 how can you ensure change outcomes take equal priority or
precedence over operational outputs?
…Contact us now!

7. Find us on these sites…
www.thinking.co.uk
CARDIO LTD
9 Wood Street
Old Town
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN1 4AN
Email: alex.cole@thinking.co.uk
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