Field Guides
Books, guides and ways to work together.
Practical books and workbooks for people who want to grow their career and make their work better: turning ideas into value, communicating clearly, landing a talk, teaching what they know, or building something of their own.
They’re written from the Cultivated practice and twenty years of noticing how work really happens — first in journalism and Media Science, then as VP of Engineering, VP of HR and Head of Communication, and now as an independent advisor, speaker and teacher.
01 · Start free
Read something first.
Written to be useful in themselves, and given freely as part of the practice.
Eleven free books and guides, plus over two hundred essays, live on the Writing page →
02 · The seeing series
Own a field guide.
Numbered in the order they joined the shelf. Each stands on its own, so start with whatever you need. Digital editions arrive the moment you check out.
The Full Shelf
Every field guide, together.
All seven paid guides in the series, in digital editions, for less than buying them apart. Read them in any order.
- 01The 10 Behaviours Coaching and Development Guide
- 02Take a Day Off
- 03Effective Workplace Communication
- 04Zero to Keynote
- 05Workshop Mastery
- 07From Idea to Sustainable Work
- 08The Life of an Idea
03 · Studio
The deeper room.
The workshop behind Cultivated. The complete Idea to Value Practitioner’s Handbook the moment you join, a new Department of Interesting Things edition every month, and a direct line to me.
The Handbook on its own is worth more than a year in Studio.
- The Practitioner’s Handbook. All 26 principles, built to be used on the job. Yours on joining.
- The Department of Interesting Things. A new edition each month, with the back catalogue from day one.
- Seminars, essays and working notes. The deeper teaching and the work in progress.
- A direct line to Rob. Email me; I reply within 24 hours.
- 10% off the shelf. Every field guide, workbook and book above.
04 – 05 · With Rob
Work on it together.
One hour on the thing you’re wrestling with, or a whole day building a talk with a room of eight.
04 · Office Hours · Online
One hour. One work problem. A fresh pair of eyes.
Bring an idea, a piece of work, a talk or a problem that won’t move. We look at it properly, turn it around and decide what’s worth doing next. It isn’t coaching. It’s simpler than that.
05 · Public workshop · Winchester
Zero to Keynote. Bring an idea, leave with a talk.
One day, eight people, index cards and pens. By the end of the afternoon everyone has built, rehearsed and given a complete first version of their talk.
- Where
- Central Winchester, an hour from Waterloo
- The room
- Eight places, one talk each
- The day
- Analogue: no laptops, no slides
- Included
- Lunch, materials and a printed copy of the book
For teams and organisations
Zero to Keynote is one of several workshops I run in-house – on communication, management, presentation and how good ideas travel through an organisation. Each is scoped to your team. From £3,500.
About Rob
I’m Rob Lambert. I’ve spent twenty years inside organisations – as a journalist, filmmaker, VP of Engineering, VP of HR and Head of Communication – studying how ideas become value, and where they stall. I’ve helped scale a business from barely making payroll to an exit, and taught hundreds of people to speak, teach and communicate. These field guides are what I’ve noticed along the way.
More about Rob →Beyond the shelf
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