Workshops
Hands-on workshops for teams who want good ideas to travel further and work to get better. Every one is built around your team's real work.
When good ideas aren't landing
The Everyday Communication Workshop
It's not what you say. It's what arrives. A hands-on day on the conversations, messages and meetings that carry good ideas to results, built on Media Science and orientated around your people's real conversations.
To move faster towards results
Releasing Business Agility
Three hours, one puzzle game and five questions to release the agility already in your organisation.
To see how your work becomes value
The Whole Journey
Your team traces its own work from idea to value, finds where it slows, and leaves with changes it owns.
For new and growing managers
The Manager's Practice
The six everyday practices behind well-run teams, with a plan each manager starts on Monday.
To agree what good looks like
The Ten Behaviours Workshop
Name the behaviours behind good work, in your own words, then hire for them, coach them and recognise them.
To think and make differently
The Creativity of Constraints
Short, timed challenges that show people how limits fuel creative thinking. With Helen Callaghan and Helen Lisowski.
When someone needs to give a talk
Zero to Keynote
Arrive with an idea, leave with a talk. A small public day in Winchester, or in-house for your team.
Not sure which fits? That's what the 20-minute call is for. For a wider look at your organisation before choosing, there's The Read.
How every workshop works
01
A 20-minute call
Your team, what you'd like to be different, and which workshop fits. No pitch.
02
Shaped to you
A short conversation before the day, so the exercises use your team's real work.
03
The day
Hands-on, in person, with no hours of slides. Usually 6 to 55 people, depending on the workshop.
04
Something you keep
Notes for the organiser, and if you like, a thing the team makes: posters, a playbook, a film or a podcast episode.
Why these workshops are different
Most training is about the person at the front of the room. These are about what changes once everyone's back at their desks. They come from twenty years inside organisations, as Head of Communication, twice a VP of Engineering, VP of HR and Head of Business Agility, and from a background in Media Science and journalism. So they treat business results and keeping good people as the same outcome, and they work on your team's real work rather than invented case studies.
I've also written the book on it: Workshop Mastery, on designing and running workshops that change what people do.
250+
Everyday Communication workshops delivered
300+
Releasing Business Agility sessions
3 × 150
people in one global energy company
20 years
inside organisations, from both sides of the desk
Something more specific?
If none of these fits exactly, I also design workshops from scratch for a particular brief: aligning a leadership team, communicating a change, solving a stubborn problem, or building a team culture. They start the same way, with a 20-minute call.
Start with a 20-minute call.
Tell me about your team and what you'd like to be different, and we'll work out which workshop fits, if any. There's no pitch and no follow-up sequence.
Or email info@cultivatednotes.com. I usually reply within 48 hours.
For whoever holds the budget
Cultivated runs hands-on workshops for teams on communication, management, business agility, behaviours and creativity, each shaped around our real work and run in person by Rob Lambert, former Head of Communication, VP of Engineering and VP of HR. The communication workshop has been delivered more than 250 times and the business agility session more than 300. It starts with a 20-minute call to find the right fit.