23 episodes
Start The Week With Lorna & Lottie lornaleeson
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Lottie Dahl from Woodreed and Lorna Leeson from Little Tent 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 as they work together on joint projects as Woodreed and Little Tent.
Join them for their reflections every Monday and start the week with fresh insight to help you build Creative, Courageous, Compassionate Cultures.
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Episode 23: The Pursuit of Happiness
Join Lottie, Lorna and special guest Matt Phelan from The Happiness Index as we explore how we define Happiness at work, why it matters, how come so many leaders are inadvertently bad at it and what you can do.
Also witness Matt's shameless bid for Lorna's spare Taylor Swift tickets.
The Happiness Index helps organisations understand employee engagement and happiness drivers to power their people strategy. -
Episode 22: You Have (Too Much) Mail
Join Lottie and Lorna as they explore their different attitudes to the form of communication that everyone loves to hate, ponder on why we behave so badly when at the wheel of Outlook, 'fess up to their worst ever email crimes and see how Lottie's Dutch is getting on.
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Episode 21: We Are (Not) Family
Join Lorna and Lottie to discuss whether referring to your business as a family is a good thing or not, what happens when leaders and employees inadvertently fall into unhelpful patterns of behaviour and why Lottie has had a Sister Sledge ear worm all weekend. Live-ish from the Greek islands. Well, for one of us.
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Episode 20: But What Can I Do?
Join Lottie and Lorna as they waltz through a fundamental of getting Culture right in 30 (ish) minutes: how do you nail your organisational values?
Expect a couple of expletives, an errant magpie, the key rules for making sure values live and breathe through everything you do and why leaders need to be all in on the endeavour. -
Episode 19: The Great Mismatch
Join Lottie, Lorna and a SECOND special guest, Culture and Comms genius Jo Coxhill, as they get rather cross about the state of flexible working in organisations. Where is the trust? Where is the love? Where is Lorna's last Easter Egg? Answers to these important questions and more in 32 minutes of start the week madness...
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Episode 18: Filling the Void
Why did a Royal communication void send the the nation (world?) batshit crazy?
What can leaders during change take from this collective madness?
How has Lorna managed to bring Donald Rumsfeld into all this? Did Lorna and Lottie just have their first on-air tiff? Answers to all these questions and many more.