At Common Ground, coworking means more than just a workspace or office – it is a lifestyle and community centred on business success. In their unceasing bid to grow and enrich businesses beyond the office walls, Common Ground announces its latest project – a learning platform aptly named Common Minds. Common Minds aims to support and encourage ambitious business owners to lead their businesses productively through various learning programs, courses, and workshops across branding, marketing, technology, and business management – among a bevy of other various disciplines.
With an ever-growing number of locations across South East Asia, the coworking space prioritizes cultivating a driven community and vibrant ecosystem to help ambitious, fast-growing companies take business to the next level. Understanding that a successful business requires more than just premium workspaces, facilities, and amenities to thrive, Common Ground focuses heavily on building the right support network to elevate their members. With value-added perks, such as partnership benefits, daily events and their networking app, the launch of Common Minds is truly yet another testament to the coworking company’s dedication to supporting their community’s businesses.
The Common Minds learning initiative is the first of its kind that is being offered by Common Ground. In an ever-changing and increasingly interdisciplinary world, Common Minds endeavors to elevate individuals by offering courses that will upskill and reskill their abilities, help them overcome existing challenges, and grow their talents to keep up with today's interdisciplinary modern business landscape.
Since its inception, Common Minds has groomed businesses of all sizes to grow, from multinational corporations to freelancers alike. Among the companies that have engaged their executives in the Common Minds programs are UEM Edgenta and Lanna Cosmetics.
Aida, Founder, Lanna Cosmetics:
"I took Creating Executive Presence by The British Council, and I found the course's content very current and relevant to today’s industries and roles. David – the trainer – is clear, engaging, encouraging, and knowledgeable. I genuinely feel that I have improved with exerting and managing my presence in public settings as the class shared tangible, attainable, and actionable steps to help us strengthen our weaknesses. I feel that Common Minds should be conducted more often with various topics as it is very pertinent and helpful for working adults who face time constraints but want to continuously improve their skills.”
Diyana, Corporate Communications Executive, UEM Edgenta:
“The course shared germane and practical insight on building a credible and confident presence within a professional capacity. David captured and maintained our active interest, applying clear usage of teaching materials both useful for the present and for future situations. Leading by example, he was able to manage and guide introspective group discussions, stimulate key thoughts, and motivate interaction amongst participants to help us achieve our objectives.”
COMMON MINDS POWERED BY COMMON GROUND
Common Minds currently offers more than 70 courses, bootcamps, workshops, and certifications, collaborating and curating these learning programs with reputable partners such as iTrain, Spanish World Group, Radiate Lab, PositiveX, Cavemen Global, Think Codex, and more.
“One of the primary objectives of Common Minds is to explore, deepen, and broaden the exposure of individuals to diverse disciplines. This is why our learning platform aims to work with as many quality trainers, organisations, and universities as possible to continuously encourage our companies to keep up with today’s multifaceted landscape. We welcome them to reach out to us if they haven’t already – together we can collaborate to introduce new perspectives to working individuals, as well as nurture germane skills to elevate their businesses to the next level,” said Juhn Teo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder of Common Ground.
Offering a diverse array of topics in the fields of Business Management, Digital Technologies, Communications Skills, Creative Innovation, Branding and Marketing Strategies, among others, the objective of Common Minds is to drive and grow individuals to either further improve in existing areas, or to explore new disciplines.
For example, with Common Minds’ Business Communications and Essential Skills program, entrepreneurs harness key business skills in communicating concisely, building confidence in public speaking, delivering successful presentations, mastering decision-making and problem solving skills, and developing strong business strategies.
In Digital Technology, course learners have the opportunities to gain in-depth knowledge and skill in iOS app development or choose to learn about designing and building mobile applications using Google’s Android open-source platform. In the Certified Data Science Specialist (CDSS) course, course learners will learn how to leverage on data to unlock new economic value for their businesses, as well as apply useful data science concepts to every aspect of daily life from personal finances, to reading, lifestyle habits, and work decisions.
The 2-day Brand Strategy & Digital Marketing course covers how to design and create powerful brands; through in-depth understanding of people and marketing communications strategy.
PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
In a flourishing business, its people are the most important asset. Common Ground believes that investing in its people is investing in a successful business. A successful entrepreneur not only runs a business, he also leads a community, thus empowering his team to succeed. All training programs offered by Common Minds are in-person training courses. Course attendees can easily interact with their trainer, and the trainer can provide real one-on-one help as needed.
For more information on the learning programs offered by Common Minds, please contact the Common Minds team at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 03-9213 1433.
