Start The Week With Lorna & Lottie
Lorna Leeson and Lottie Dahl from Woodreed start each week with a heavily caffeinated Teams call. What began as a way to share some energy from their home offices became them shooting the breeze on all things Culture, Change, Communication and Coaching. Join them for their reflections every Monday and start the week with fresh insight to help you build Creative, Courageous, Compassionate Cultures.
Listen on:
Episodes
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Join Lottie and Lorna as Lorna introduces Lottie to the guilty pleasure that is The Traitors TV show and they dissect how it is a perfect portrayal of the Toxic Cultures leaders can create if they don't spot the pitfalls. Featuring lots of fan-girling of Claudia Winkleman and love for an owl amongst the deeper reflection on how leaders can inadvertently create traitors in their midst.
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Last in the three episodes examining the Horizon scandal. With Jo Moffatt, MD and Founder of Woodreed and Richard - Lottie's Dad and former Sub Postmaster offering their reflections on the scandal and Richard's view from 16 years inside the Post Office.
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Part 2 of our focus on the Post Office Horizon scandal. This week looking at why storytelling was the key to bringing this scandal to a nation's attention and galvanising people to action.
Why do stories move us in ways facts and figures do not? What's the story of Charlotte's childhood Saturday evenings? Does Lorna have the most useless Gladiator name ever?
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Listen as Lorna and Lottie reflect on the Post Office Horizon scandal that has captured the nation's attention. The first of three episodes looking at this through the lens of Culture and Leadership.What was Paula Vennell's role as CEO in this catastrophe? Was she the problem? How do other CEOs avoid the same trap? How has Lorna managed to shoehorn a Taylor Swift lyric into all this? Is Lottie really singing?
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Join Lottie and Lorna as they start the week talking about all the things they will be consigning to the bin at the end of 2023. Including, it would seem, Lorna's new jumper. Feedback, as we say, is a gift.
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Join Lorna and Lottie as they chat to their first ever guest; Lee Elliston, COO of Aspen Claims about his journey leading a global team through transformation, why the 'Why' matters and what the heck Lorna's trifle has got to do with that. Also, why are gilets such a hit with men in the City?
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Start the week with Lorna and Lottie as they nurse their vulnerability hangovers, reflect on professionalism, bringing your whole self to work and why, when Lottie experienced a difficult personal challenge, she shared it with her clients.
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Virtual meetings: Friend or Foe?
Start the week with Lorna and Lottie as they talk leadership, culture, communications and coaching. This week the conversation canters through 80's British TV shows, via an impromptu song, before focusing on the pro's and con's of virtual meetings and how to make them more engaging.
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Start the week with Lorna and Lottie as they delve into why Compassion in Leadership matters, what it looks like and how leaders can create compassionate cultures. Plus the limits of Lottie's geographical knowledge, and why she has so many pink jumpers.
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Join Lottie and Lorna as they reflect on Lottie's part in the Gail Porter Houses of Parliament controversy, Group Think as a consequence of lack of diversity and Lorna's very short tenure as a Brownie.