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 Talent. If your organisation is suffering from
‘brain drain’ which results in your talent retention,
succession planning and change programmes not being
as effective as you want them to be, how do you begin
to transform them…
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 so they:
 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. ThinkSpace. We take dead space and
turn it into headspace…
We provide a purpose-built ThinkSpace to enable your staff to concentrate on finding
real-time solutions to your organisation’s most pressing challenges. By teaching them a
range of recognised and proven thinking techniques (such as: 6 thinking hats, mind
mapping, force-field analysis, clustering or brainstorming…) we enhance existing decision-
making and planning skills whilst developing the ability to work more effectively in cross-
organisational, multi-agency or project teams:
 We provide all levels of talented people the incentive to work
towards solving business and project challenges with the support
they need to deliver…
 We ensure they don’t have to do it alone and they no longer have to
struggle in isolation with recurring issues…
 We help you to cascade your wealth of knowledge across the
organisation…
 We help your people to draw upon insight and intelligence --making
it readily and easily accessible to them…
 We enable real joined up thinking…

7. Getting people thinking and building
talent-powered organisations…
We work with you to:
 shift old behaviour patterns and underlying motives for attitudes and
conflicts which are blocking organisational energy…
 revive, re-connect and re-energise your teams talented individuals to
build you own ‘internal consultancy’ experts…
 transform insight and responsiveness into action to make internal
performance more effective and relevant to the changing needs of
your customers…
 develop ‘coordinated individuality’ to empower your people to
exhibit their true stunningly talented behaviour…
 reveal hidden potential so your teams can live, breathe and thrive in
the new talent-driven economy…
 put in place the self-organising, adaptive relationships that will
enable complete confidence and stability in times of change…
…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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