Common Purpose Blog

Lyndal Stuart is the Media and Communications Manager for Common Purpose and is currently a participant in Common Purpose’s International Navigator course for emerging leaders. She writes here on the insights of her line manager, Oliver Mack, who has shared his thoughts on employee engagement with Knowledge Peers. So I sat there opposite my boss [...]

“Time was when anyone who slacked off, back-pedalled, loafed around or otherwise failed to add value at work knew they were in for a good old-fashioned telling-off from the boss. It cleared the air and allowed everyone to get on with the task in hand. Nowadays, though, bureaucracy and the tyranny of balanced feedback rule.”  [...]