The Soul at Work

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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.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    Stop Prompting Without Purpose. Lead AI Towards Good.

    You didn't sign up to be an AI ethicist, but helping yourself and others to use AI well has slowly but surely become part of your leadership work. Shiao-Yin Kuik makes the case for leading AI instead of being led by it — offering five traits any human needs to effectively oversee AI output, and a simple Triple Triage for deciding when a task shouldn't go near AI at all. Further Links Black Box: The Chatbots Ep 6 “What I Saw At the Double Six Ranch” (Interview with Michael Samadi)Black Box: The Chatbots Ep 3 “Happy Accident” (Interview with Sherry Turkle on The Eliza Effect)“AI has a seat in the C-suite”, Wakefield for SAP (2025)”Many Shot Jailbreaking”, Anthropic (2024)“Your Brain on Chat GPT”, MIT (2025)If this episode has you curious about how to work better with AI and be that human in the lead, not just the loop, you can check out Common Ground's workshop, Purpose Before Prompt. More information on our training workshops is in this link. Or you may book a consulting slot with Common Ground. 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

    Stop Prompting Without Purpose. Lead AI Towards Good.

  2. Sep 25

    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

    Stop Meeting After the Meeting. Say It in the Room.

  3. Aug 26

    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

    Stop Personality Testing. Talk to People.

  4. Jul 23

    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

    Stop Managing Up. Lead from the Middle.

  5. Jun 10

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

    Stop Underselling Your Work. Tell Your Impact Story.

  6. May 26

    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

    Stop Fixing Culture. Renew the Soul at Work.

  7. May 22

    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

    Welcome to The Soul at Work
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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.

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  • Creator
    ourcommongroundsg
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    7
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    © 2026 The Soul at Work
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