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 Change. If you want to determine which
cultural factors might help or inhibit any planned
change, increase buy-in and ensure transformation
is successful, sustainable and sticks…
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. A transformed organisation is adaptive and more
resilient with a long-term view characterised by
sustainable high performing teams, with the potential
to continuously engage with customers and enhance
the stakeholder experience…
Throughout all of our coaching and change projects we provide strategic analysis,
reviews and communication campaigns to ensure all your stakeholders are aware of,
and aligned to the change proposition and all the key messages. We work closely with
you to help develop an ongoing change and communication strategy to ensure:
 that what is happening inside your organisation is communicated
effectively both inside and out
 together we create a state of positive engagement
 that people know what is happening, why it’s happening and how it
will affect them.
 that when change is in the wind, we help to let it blow through and
power the right responses
 we work with your change teams to ensure culture insight provides the
basis for informed decisions, and a platform for change related
communications
 we carry out value-driven audits and reviews, measure and monitor
employee engagement and track changes in attitudes and behaviours

7. We make sure people participate in planning
and have a sense of ownership and familiarity
to drive support for your change initiatives…
We do qualitative research and consultations with your staff, key stakeholders and your
customers to assess what interventions will create the right impact to ensure:
 we deliver a sustainable effect on attitudes and behaviour
 together we embed that critical cultural shift
 we identify and carry out effective targeted stakeholder research
 we look at what individual teams really need
 together we explore a variety of possible sustainability options
 we bespoke our methods and techniques for each stakeholder group
…Contact us now!

8. 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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