My coaching and consulting services will help you move smoothly & quickly towards your ambitious future, whilst cultivating a positive workplace that enriches the lives of all who work in it.
I call this releasing business agility:
- Envision and communicate a bright future.
- Understand what's stopping you from achieving it.
- Build the "team to get it done".
- Focus on habits and routines.
- Build a learning culture.
My services include consultancy, coaching, workshops, seminars and energising talks.
On this page you will find ways I can partner with you, designed around transformation, change and business improvement.
At Cultivated Management, we don’t wait to discover the future; we help you create it.
About Cultivated Management
Cultivated Management was founded in 2017 by Rob Lambert, a Media Scientist and business leader with a unique blend of expertise in both communication and corporate leadership.
Having served as Vice President of Software Engineering (twice), Vice President of HR, Head of communications and Head of Business Agility, Rob understands that nearly every business challenge stems from ineffective communication.
His background in Internal PR, media production, journalism, leadership, management, HR and corporate communications equips him to break down complex ideas and connect with diverse audiences across various platforms, making communication his ultimate business tool.
A veteran of the startup world, Rob has worked with enterprise organisations seeking to enhance business agility (move smoothly and quickly) and startups looking to scale without losing their fast-paced, action-oriented culture.
At Cultivated Management, we fuse Rob’s passion for communication science with his strong business acumen to help organisations unlock their full potential in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape.
Why communication?
99% of problems in business are due to ineffective communication.
I'm likely not far from the truth when it comes to most problems being related to ineffective communication.
If most problems in business are due to ineffective communication, then it pays to identify what these problems are, and solve them through better communication.
This isn't abstract training and coaching about communication. I work with you to identify and solve your real business problems, which at first don't always appear to be related to communication. Whether you are doing a transformation and change program, or simply looking to improve how you deliver value, communication is often the key to unlocking what you seek.
Effective communication skills also allows you to influence, move people into action, inspire and lead.
I focus on the following
- Clarity of direction & Strategy: Clarity over a future state is the first essential step to building a better business. From this you can define a strategy that brings this future to life. A strategy though, also needs a robust transformation plan and delivery approach.
- Public Relationships and Communication Planning: Winning hearts and minds by using data, insights, stories and clear communication to build internal alignment and engagement.
- Media Production: Using visuals and other mediums to help people “see” the big picture and bright future. If people can't "see" the idea, how will they make sense of the detail?
- Interpersonal Communication & Relationships: Strengthen relationships for success.
- Storytelling: Move people into action and foster innovation through compelling stories.
- Critical Thinking & Process Improvement: Making decisions based on evidence, not assumptions and strong opinions.
- Creativity: Unleash the collective creativity and innovative thinking of your people, to deliver value in better ways for your customers and to force your competition to keep up.
- Learning: Instigating on-the-job training, effective training and role modelling a leader who learns.
What is Releasing Business Agility?
To frame my coaching and consulting, I typically use my 5 stage thinking model to understand where I can help you.
- Release = Set free from confinement
- Agility = Move smoothly and quickly towards your business goals
In a nutshell this model helps to understand where problems, challenges and opportunities lie within the organisation - and how we can use communication interventions to solve them.
At the end of the day, many challenges in business come down to a lack of clarity and alignment, resulting in busy action which is not always delivering value.
Read more about how this model works here.
Partnership
I offer simple and straight forward services to partner with you.
- Consulting and Coaching
- Workshops and Tutorials
- Energising Talks / Seminars
Available services and courses are on this page, or download the PDF brochure here.
Pricing
I believe in clear value driven pricing.
- Full day Workshops, Seminars and Tutorials are priced at £7,000
- Crowd pleasing talks are priced at £4000
- Consultancy & Coaching pricing on request - available as single days or blocks of time.
All prices exclude VAT.
Travel/accommodation can be discussed depending on engagement.
I have special discount prices for conference or events. Please get in touch.
Coaching & Consulting
As an experienced Vice President of Software Engineering (twice), Vice President of HR, Head of Business Agility and Head of Communication, I am available to coach or consult with you and your team.
I can work in a coaching capacity, helping you and your team to nurture the bright future you desire, focussing on behaviours, overcoming problems and supporting from a coaching capacity.
I can also work in a consulting capacity, where you can leverage my strong experience to overcome problems, restructure your business, build a learning company and Release Business Agility.
I can work in a retainer model (i.e. two days a week), or in a longer-term engagement, depending on your needs and challenges.
If you're looking to define a bright future, create a strategy, build a communication plan, grow as a startup, release agility in your Enterprise company, solve problems with delivery, engage your workforce, or you simply need to train your management teams then don't hesitate to get in touch.
Email : info@cultivatedmanagement.com
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertlambert/
Workshops and Seminars
Workshops are a powerful way of bringing theories and ideas to life.
As an award-winning workshop Teacher I always bring an experienced based approach to teaching and learning.
I use an inductive laddering model where we start with the underlying principles and truths. Once we've firmly grasped the underlying principles, we work outwards - exploring how to bring this to life within the context of your work, goals, ambitions and problems.
This allows what I teach to move from information to actual knowledge. See an article on the two learning styles here.
Most workshops can be run with up to 50 people - enabling you to scale the value for money and teach more of your team.
All workshops have a mixture of teaching styles, including lecture, interaction, group activity, reflection and practice - this is why they win awards.
The Communication Super Power Workshop
The Communication Super Power Workshop
My flagship, award-winning workshop starts with why communication is so important to personal and business success.
We then cover the underlying core principles and science of communication, before bringing these to life in a series of interactive scenarios related to the workplace.
There is also an online, self-paced version that I can offer bulk discount codes for too.
I've run this workshop over 150 times. It's still a joy to run.
“I knew Rob was a great speaker as I’d seen him present at a number of industry conferences so I had high expectations of the communications workshop. Rob worked with me to understand what we wanted to be delivered and achieved, and then facilitated a jam packed workshop that had something for everyone. Rob’s energy, expertise and amiable presenting style was a big hit with all of us and we left with new skills, insights and practical knowledge.” - Scott Summer - DIRECTOR, nFocus
The 10 Behaviours of Effective Employees Workshop
The 10 Behaviours of Effective Employees
Another award-winning workshop where we use various mediums and media to bring to life the 10 Behaviours of Effective Employees.
We explore each behaviour and uncover why behaviours are so important to aid in growth, delivery and a positive workplace.
We explore why behaviours matter so much - hint, they’re the culture of your organisation. Using multiple mediums we bring each one to life, leaving a physical or digital product you can share with your wider organisation.
Business Storytelling Workshop
Business Storytelling
This full day workshop is hosted and run by a Sunday Times top 10 best selling author. It’s very good.
During the workshop you will learn how to craft a good story and why stories are the key to moving people into action.
This is still in trials. If you would like to be an early adopter for a reduced rate please get in touch. info@cultivatedmanagement.com
Zero to Keynote Workshop
Zero to Keynote
This workshop is a full day of developing excellent presentation skills.
It is strictly limited to 10-15 people to allow time and space to practice, and to support those who are nervous about presenting.
We cover the basic communication science, dive into how to frame up an idea before moving on to structuring a talk, dealing with nerves and presenting with confidence.
This workshop content is now available as a print or digital book.
Management & Leadership Team DISC Workshop
Team Alignment using DISC - workshop
In this workshop we use the DISC tool to understand our own preferences for communication, as well as our peers.
This workshop is designed for leadership and management teams.
After understanding more about DISC we cover how we can start to align and work with those who have different communication behaviours to ourselves.
This is a powerful workshop for bringing leadership teams together.
Releasing Agility Seminar
Releasing Agility Seminar and Workshop
In this half day Seminar we play a puzzle game which perfectly demonstrates how to Release Business Agility.
It has all of the steps of the model in it, brings some fun and is super energising.
We learn how to come together to solve problems, why having a clear painted picture is so important, how experiments don't always work and how we sometimes need to do the work in order to make it better.
I have instructions on how to run this, if you want to have a go without me.
Email : info@cultivatedmanagement.com
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertlambert/
Energising Talks
I've been doing International Keynotes and company events for over 20 years now - and I also teach others how to present.
If you'd like an energising talk to get your team inspired, motivated and thinking differently, then I likely have a talk for you.
As an International Keynote presenter, I know how to work a room and leave people feeling energised and refreshed – all packaged up with fun and humour.
I have my regular talks or I could rustle up something specific for your business. I am happy to hang around and do a Q&A or short seminar also.
If you'd like a specific talk that is not one of my staple Keynotes, then please give advanced notice.
Some talks that may inspire:
- The 10 behaviours of effective employees
- How to thrive in your career
- Talk about Value - and that's not just financial
- How to climb the career ladder
Please don't hesitate to email me about anything on this page. If you'd like an informal chat to see how I can help you and your team, don't hesitate to get in touch.
Email : info@cultivatedmanagement.com
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertlambert/