Common Purpose Blog

Economic instability has presented businesses with many challenges since the great crash of 2008 – and these problems have refused to disappear. It is amid these harsh financial realities that the perception of learning and development (L&D) has changed. A recent survey by the Henley Business School suggested that L&D has become increasingly focused as organisations look [...]

The last two days I had the pleasure of attending the Third Sector Digital Communications and Social Media Convention. Throughout the conference it occurred to me the themes that kept creeping up around the social media were the very same themes that arise when considering what it means to be a good leader. Here were [...]

The below is a post written by Isabella Betkowski, a Course Co-ordinator at Common Purpose in London. She shared it with colleagues this morning and it really got people thinking. Go on…have a read. What stories have you shared recently? Stories are gifts I was walking to work yesterday morning when I got an email [...]

How we perceive the world depends very much on who tells its story.  Indeed, you could even argue that with a differing opinion.  There are prime examples of contradictory opinions everywhere, particularly as our access to information, news and knowledge becomes increasingly fragmented. Today is World AIDS Day, an awareness raising event stimulating global media [...]