Organisations are firing their middle managers and calling it efficiency. Middle managers are carrying out orders they don't believe in and calling it professionalism. Both are wrong — and this dismissive perspective of the work of Middle Management is costing everyone far more than they realise. 

In this episode, Shiao-Yin Kuik makes a case for what great leadership in the middle actually looks like, and shares a strategic framework for Middles wanting to change things in their organisation.

About The Soul at Work Podcast
Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. If you're the person in your organisation who sees the human cost and is done with solutions that treat the symptoms of the problem, not the source, this show is built for you.

Ready to go further than a podcast — training programmes and consulting calls are available at www.ourcommonground.com.sg.

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Being humble about our good work is honourable — but staying too silent has a cost. When practitioners don't tell their best impact stories, unhelpful cultural orthodoxies persist: the myth of the self-sustaining nonprofit, the bias that business knows best, the prioritisation of for-profit values in non-profits

In this episode, Shiao-Yin Kuik shows why we need more effective impact storytelling from the ground — and introduces the R.E.A.L. framework: four principles for telling impact stories that help practitioners and funders stay human, honest and humble about doing complex change work.

• Learn The R.E.A.L. Framework
  Register for Strategic Storytelling for Insight and Impact
• Visit The Common Ground Civic Centre 
• Read Vu Le’s Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy

About The Soul at Work Podcast
Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. If you're the person in your organisation who sees the human cost and is done with solutions that treat the symptoms of the problem, not the source, this show is built for you.

Ready to go further than a podcast — training programmes and consulting calls are available at www.ourcommonground.com.sg.

LinkedIn | Common Ground Consultancy
Instagram | @oursoulatwork
YouTube | @oursoulatwork

Good leaders want to do good work but often settle for managing surface issues, keeping the peace, and enabling the very dysfunction they want to change. 

In this episode, Shiao-Yin Kuik names what that avoidance actually costs, and offers one concrete practice, forming the throughline, to help you align your daily actions with the values that actually matter to you.

About The Soul at Work Podcast
Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. If you're the person in your organisation who sees the human cost and is done with solutions that treat the symptoms of the problem, not the source, this show is built for you.

Ready to go further than a podcast — training programmes and consulting calls are available at www.ourcommonground.com.sg.

LinkedIn | Common Ground Consultancy
Instagram | @oursoulatwork
YouTube | @oursoulatwork

There's a gap between what good leaders value and how they actually work every day.
The Soul at Work is for every leader who sees that gap — and wants to do something about it.
The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. One beautiful practical strategy to bring to work that week.
Thirty minutes — good for a walk around the block.

Episode 1 drops 28 May. Come take a walk with me.

About The Soul at Work Podcast
Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. If you're the person in your organisation who sees the human cost and is done with solutions that treat the symptoms of the problem, not the source, this show is built for you.

Ready to go further than a podcast — training programmes and consulting calls are available at www.ourcommonground.com.sg.

LinkedIn | Common Ground Consultancy
Instagram | @oursoulatwork
YouTube | @oursoulatwork