John Prescott

Bluemerle · 13-02-2007, 04:58 PM

http://commonpurpose.org.uk/spotlight

In 1989, Common Purpose started with one programme for leaders. Now there are nine different programmes running in 45 locations across the UK.

Over 70 per cent of the FTSE 100 companies have used Common Purpose to develop their leaders.
All Common Purpose programmes share the same aim - to give leaders of today and tomorrow the information, insights, competencies and networks they need to become better leaders and to improve the way society works.

Common Purpose programmes are offered in 45 cities, towns and regions in the UK (and an increasing number of locations beyond the UK).

In addition, Common Purpose runs OpenGround twice annually, a new type of gathering designed to stimulate and nourish society's thinkers and doers at the highest levels.

What's so special about Common Purpose programmes?

Is there a programme for me?

Common Purpose offers a wide variety of programmes designed to suit every kind of emerging or existing leader.

Benefits
Better leaders
Stronger communities
New networks
If you are a leader in your organisation, city, town or area, find out more about Matrix and Focus.
If you are a London leader needing a more flexible programme schedule, find out more about TheKNOW
If you are an emerging leader, one of the high-potential "people to watch" within your organisation, sector or community, find out more about Navigator.
If you are a leader or part of a partnership that needs to know your area better, find out more about Profile.
If you are a leader whose sphere of influence is expanding to a regional, national or international level, find out more about 20:20.
The Power Dynamic is a challenging one-day event specifically organised for those who need to know more about how power works at a national or European level, and how you can influence it.
Infuse is a customised programme designed for leaders who are involved in a specific partnership or cross-sector board.
What Next? is a brand new programme for people who are completing one stage of their career, and are now looking for new and possibly very different opportunities.
If you are of university age and have evidence of leadership skills in civil society, find out more about Frontrunner.
If you are a young person (14 to 18 years old) with leadership potential, find out more about Your Turn.

Bluemerle · 13-02-2007, 05:02 PM

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The generation game - with a common purpose

What do a hard-headed banker and his idealistic daughter have in common?
Banker Tim Murley is a man mainly concerned with the cold, hard numbers of the business world. But when members of his staff kept telling him what a positive experience they’d enjoyed on Common Purpose’s Matrix leadership development programme, he finally decided to test the waters himself.

Tim was so impressed with his own experience that when he heard about the organisation’s new programme, Frontrunner, for pre-career leaders, he encouraged his daughter, Rebecca, to apply.

“ Matrix opened my eyes to my employer’s wider role in the community,” says Tim, the Managing Director of Intermediary & Specialist Banking for Abbey National plc, “and it changed the way I operate as a manager. Before the programme, I concentrated solely on day-to-day business, but the broader perspective that Common Purpose gave me changed my outlook. I began to see much more clearly how our organisation fitted into the wider community – and how that knowledge could also be good for business. Although Rebecca is a very different person to me, I knew that Common Purpose would be a great option for her too.”

Twenty-one year-old Rebecca is a young person with a mission to inspire others. She has recently completed a degree in Philosophy and Linguistics at York University and is the first to admit that her focus is very different to that of her father. “I need to find work rewarding and satisfying in a different way to my Dad,” she says. “It’s a far more personal thing for me. I need to be able to see how my work is directly benefiting others – which is one of the reasons I've decided to go into teaching. Dad has a much more commercial approach – but that’s appropriate when you work in banking.”

Following her father’s recommendation, Rebecca recently attended Frontrunner – a four-day residential programme targeted at pre-career people who have already shown evidence of leadership skills in their schools in society and which aims to encourage them to continue campaigning for change in their future careers.

“I found Frontrunner to be really inspirational,” she says. “Hearing from so many people from so many different walks of life who had made positive changes made me think ‘yes, it can be done!’

“The participants and speakers I met were really passionate about their work which I found to be infectious. I want to take that kind of energy and bring it to teaching. To meet such interesting people who had all brought about positive change in their own ways was truly motivating. For example, hearing Madi Sharma - Managing Director of Original Eastern Foods - speak about Asian women’s rights and what she’d achieved in life made me want to get out there and inspire others in my own way.”

The network of friends Rebecca developed following the Frontrunner programme will, she believes, stay with her. “I’d never met so many like-minded people when it comes to the really important issues in life. We created tremendously strong links. For example, when the London bombings occurred in July, shortly after the programme, we were all on the phone and email checking on each other’s safety and discussing ways we could help out anyone who needed transport. That says it all for me.”

The Matrix programme made Tim think a lot more about what was going in the community. “I began to get myself involved in Abbey’s wider activities after the programme,” he says. “Amongst other things, I chaired an employee disability forum and became a member of the Corporate & Social Responsibility Steering Group. I also became a Vice-Patron of a charity that helps people affected by strokes. As I delved further into what was happening in the area in which I live and work, I was amazed at the sheer extent of the positive initiatives - particularly in the voluntary sector - that I previously had no idea about. And given the nature of my role at Abbey, this new, wider focus actually helped me to develop a better understanding of the people I was dealing with, which was beneficial for business too – so it was good news all round.”

Although Rebecca and Tim are very different in what they do, both acknowledge that there are similarities in the way in which they go about their work. “We’re both very methodical and open to different ways of achieving things,” says Rebecca, “we’re both keen to see things really happening, and we like to be kept busy, getting restless if we have nothing to do. So I think Common Purpose particularly lives up to its name where my Dad and I are concerned.”

“Common Purpose helped me lift my head up and look around me to see what is really going on,” says Tim. “I just knew that a similar experience would be absolutely ideal for Rebecca given her choice of career. I wasn’t wrong.”

22ANDUK · 13-02-2007, 06:43 PM

Looks alright, I'm actually going to try and sign up for it!

This-England · 13-02-2007, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Britannist

Prescott has always been a europhile. Right from the start.

Why the working class people of his Hull constituency vote him, I don't know.

He hasn't been part of the working class for 40 years. If he ever was genuinely working class in the first place.

In England Class has nothing to do with money.

g hall · 14-02-2007, 05:52 PM

Having had a quick look surely all people involved in public life should have to declare their affiliation because like the masons who knows what favours could be done otherwise

Mikeuk · 15-02-2007, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Bluemerle

Cressida Dick is the Common Purpose senior police officer who authorised the "Shoot to kill" policy without reference to Parliament, the law or the British Constitution. Jean de Menezes was one of the innocents who died as a result. Her shoot to kill policy still stands today.

The hideous PC harpy Cressida Dick-head disappeared from view after her key part in the murder of the innocent Brazilian was established.

Of course it was too good to last. She popped up all over the place today assuring us that the black-on-black teenage murders are 'rare' - an astonishing statement when three have occurred in one week.

Still at least murders of Brazilians have become rare since Dick-head was reined in. This evil death-dealing harridan should be booted out of the force without delay. A taste of the ducking stool would be an excellent means of putting this ugly far-left nobody firmly in her place.

Britannist · 16-02-2007, 06:19 PM

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MikeUK wrote: The hideous PC harpy Cressida Dick-head disappeared from view after her key part in the murder of the innocent Brazilian was established.

Of course it was too good to last. She popped up all over the place today... A taste of the ducking stool would be an excellent means of putting this ugly far-left nobody firmly in her place.

Is there really someone with the name "Cressida Dick"? :shock: :twisted:

Britannist · 17-02-2007, 01:19 AM

Here's a letter from yesterday's Telegraph (16.2.2007):

Sir - With reference to A. C. Miller's suggestion of casting Meat Loaf in the role of John Prescott :x for the planned Prime Minister - the Musical (Letters, 15th February), can we assume he would include a rendition of his seminal hit, Bat Out of Hull? :shock:

Richard Lisney, London SW6.

g hall · 17-02-2007, 11:38 AM

One other thing I'm working class He's never been a hero of mine the man's a thoroughly nasty piece of work

Oh and I like croquet

Britannist · 17-02-2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by g hall

the man's a thoroughly nasty piece of work

Never a truer word said.

17-02-2007, 01:19 AM	#18 (permalink)
Britannist Uber Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: London Posts: 22,896	Meatloaf as Prescott Here's a letter from yesterday's Telegraph (16.2.2007): Sir - With reference to A. C. Miller's suggestion of casting Meat Loaf in the role of John Prescott :x for the planned Prime Minister - the Musical (Letters, 15th February), can we assume he would include a rendition of his seminal hit, Bat Out of Hull? :shock: Richard Lisney, London SW6.

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Bluemerle Uber Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Dorset. Posts: 3,248	http://commonpurpose.org.uk/spotlight In 1989, Common Purpose started with one programme for leaders. Now there are nine different programmes running in 45 locations across the UK. Over 70 per cent of the FTSE 100 companies have used Common Purpose to develop their leaders. All Common Purpose programmes share the same aim - to give leaders of today and tomorrow the information, insights, competencies and networks they need to become better leaders and to improve the way society works. Common Purpose programmes are offered in 45 cities, towns and regions in the UK (and an increasing number of locations beyond the UK). In addition, Common Purpose runs OpenGround twice annually, a new type of gathering designed to stimulate and nourish society's thinkers and doers at the highest levels. What's so special about Common Purpose programmes? Is there a programme for me? Common Purpose offers a wide variety of programmes designed to suit every kind of emerging or existing leader. Benefits Better leaders Stronger communities New networks If you are a leader in your organisation, city, town or area, find out more about Matrix and Focus. If you are a London leader needing a more flexible programme schedule, find out more about TheKNOW If you are an emerging leader, one of the high-potential "people to watch" within your organisation, sector or community, find out more about Navigator. If you are a leader or part of a partnership that needs to know your area better, find out more about Profile. If you are a leader whose sphere of influence is expanding to a regional, national or international level, find out more about 20:20. The Power Dynamic is a challenging one-day event specifically organised for those who need to know more about how power works at a national or European level, and how you can influence it. Infuse is a customised programme designed for leaders who are involved in a specific partnership or cross-sector board. What Next? is a brand new programme for people who are completing one stage of their career, and are now looking for new and possibly very different opportunities. If you are of university age and have evidence of leadership skills in civil society, find out more about Frontrunner. If you are a young person (14 to 18 years old) with leadership potential, find out more about Your Turn.

13-02-2007, 06:43 PM	#13 (permalink)
22ANDUK Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,438	Looks alright, I'm actually going to try and sign up for it!

14-02-2007, 05:52 PM	#15 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4,929	Having had a quick look surely all people involved in public life should have to declare their affiliation because like the masons who knows what favours could be done otherwise