The Soul at Work Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:46:12 -0400 https://ourcommonground.com.sg/ en-gb © 2026 The Soul at Work yes b8d74608-3f09-53db-8bb3-9f6e2bd40523 ourcommongroundsg episodic false Close the gap between what you value and how you actually work. 
The Good, Bad, Ugly & Beautiful of leading well.


People and organisations don't fall apart overnight. They disintegrate through everyday choices — small compromises, avoided conversations, policies designed to extract more than they give.


The Soul at Work is for managers, leaders, and internal reformers who feel that cost acutely — and are ready to address it with real frameworks, not superficial fixes.


Each episode takes one theme all the way through: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and one Beautiful strategy you can bring to work this week.


Not all talk. Built for practice.


]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) ourcommongroundsg https://storage.buzzsprout.com/8ldbldxw7813oa5knjjdx40o3c0k?.jpg The Soul at Work https://ourcommonground.com.sg/ Stop Meeting After the Meeting. Say It in the Room. Stop Meeting After the Meeting. Say It in the Room. Every organisation struggles with meetings after the meetings — the corridor debriefs, the group chats, the honest conversation that only happens once the real one ends. Shiao-Yin Kuik names what that silence actually costs — not just you, but the people who never get a seat in the room at all — and offers a simple two-step practice to help you bring your voice back where it belongs.

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


]]> Every organisation struggles with meetings after the meetings — the corridor debriefs, the group chats, the honest conversation that only happens once the real one ends. Shiao-Yin Kuik names what that silence actually costs — not just you, but the people who never get a seat in the room at all — and offers a simple two-step practice to help you bring your voice back where it belongs.

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


]]> https://ourcommonground.com.sg/the-soul-at-work-podcast/stop-meeting-after-the-meeting-say-it-in-the-room ourcommongroundsg Buzzsprout-19861960 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0800 1691 full false Stop Personality Testing. Talk to People. Stop Personality Testing. Talk to People. Enneagram, StrengthsFinder, MBTI. Some workplaces love them, some people loathe them.

Shiao-Yin draws the line between using personality tests to help teams name how they work differently and using them to pronounce verdicts on each other. Using the Enneagram to illustrate, she offers a three-step practice for turning any personality framework into a practical way to connect with your teams.

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


]]> Enneagram, StrengthsFinder, MBTI. Some workplaces love them, some people loathe them.

Shiao-Yin draws the line between using personality tests to help teams name how they work differently and using them to pronounce verdicts on each other. Using the Enneagram to illustrate, she offers a three-step practice for turning any personality framework into a practical way to connect with your teams.

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


]]> ourcommongroundsg Buzzsprout-19704170 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0800 1651 4 full false Stop Managing Up. Lead from the Middle. Stop Managing Up. Lead from the Middle. 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.

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


]]> 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.

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


]]> https://ourcommonground.com.sg/the-soul-at-work-podcast/stop-managing-up-lead-from-the-middle ourcommongroundsg Buzzsprout-19530724 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +0800 2060 3 full false Stop Underselling Your Work. Tell Your Impact Story. Stop Underselling Your Work. Tell Your Impact Story. 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.

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


]]> 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.

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


]]> ourcommongroundsg Buzzsprout-19324175 Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:00 +0800 1397 2 full false Stop Fixing Culture. Renew the Soul at Work. Stop Fixing Culture. Renew the Soul at Work. 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


]]> 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


]]> ourcommongroundsg Buzzsprout-19240396 Tue, 26 May 2026 19:00:00 +0800 1156 1 full false Welcome to The Soul at Work Welcome to The Soul at Work 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


]]> 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


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