What's different about Common Purpose programmes?
Our participants don't just sit in meeting rooms studying abstract management problems or wrestling with intellectual exercises. They go out into their own community and grapple with real life problems at first hand, visiting prisons, housing developments, businesses, hospitals and manufacturing plants in order to find inspiration outside their usual experience. Through this process, they trade leadership experiences and strategies with other leaders from a variety of fields and build wider networks.
Benefits of Common Purpose Programmes
Organisations benefit from more inspired leaders who are better able to lead beyond their authority, both within their organisations and in the outside world. Communities benefit from more — and more diverse — leaders who are energised and engaging in civil society.
Our graduates repeatedly say that as a result of Common Purpose they:
- work more effectively with people from diverse backgrounds or disciplines and with different ways of thinking
- can handle complex, multi-disciplinary tasks more successfully
- develop their leadership skills and broaden their capacity to take advantage of new opportunities in a range of situations
- are able to move easily between sectors and communities, and open doors to new opportunities
- gain experience in team-working in the areas of change and innovation.