Podcasts

Sharing experience, knowledge and great ideas

Space for Conversations is The Oakridge Centre's podcast series which began during the initial COVID 19 pandemic lockdown and continues to prove both interesting and informative for many. Providing insights to help drive business forwards, the podcasts cover a wide range of subject areas including Leadership, Coaching, Change, Team Effectiveness and Mental Health, and can be accessed via all of the most popular podcast apps including: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Acast, TuneIn, Pocket Casts, Breaker and Stitcher.

Discover 'Space for Conversations' podcasts below

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The importance of Embracing Differences in the Workplace and the roles of Active Allyship and Active Bystanders at Work

In this Podcast, Tracey Crampton, Oakridge Marketing Consultant is joined by Oakridge Senior Consultants, Anita Roche, Deborah Larder-Shaw and Lisa Wright on the important topic of Embracing Differences and the role of the Active Ally and Bystander at work.

Anita Roche is Oakridge's specialist on training and awareness of Active Allyship and Active Bystanders and leads on all supporting training required. A list of the training support programmes under Oakridge's Embracing Difference Programme can be found on our website: https://www.oakridgecentre.co.uk/embracing-difference-programme/

Deborah Larder-Shaw is Oakridge's Account Director providing on hand client support and guidance on all aspects of thee Embracing Difference Programme and is the lead on Oakridge's STRIDE - Female Leadership Development Programme.

Lisa Wright is the owner of Menopause The Wright Way and Oakridge's Senior Consultant on this topic. Lisa addresses the impact of Menopause at work from both employer and employee perspective - and provides training and support for colleagues and partners of those transitioning through Menopause.

Lisa wright also shares her experience as a Gay Business Leader in Embracing Differences at work and discusses her specialist topic of Menopause at Work - from an Employer perspective, Employee support, and also colleague and partner support - at work and at home. The Menopause at Work Programme Outline can be downloaded HERE

The Full Recording and Transcript of this 'Space for Conversations' Podcast can also be found HERE

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Episode 1 Series 3: Taking your 'Whole Self' to Work ... Being a Gay Leader in Business

Lisa Wright, owner of Menopause The Wright Way and Oakridge Senior Consultant, shares her 30-year career experience as a gay female leader in the business and the roles of Active Allyship and Active Bystanders in Embracing Difference in the workplace. Lisa is joined in conversation by Anita Roche and Deborah Larder-Shaw, both Oakridge Senior Consultants. This is a brief excerpt taken from the full Podcast: Embracing Difference, Active Allyship and Bystanders - Episode 2 - Series 3 which you can also listen to on this platform.
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Introducing Space for Conversations Podcasts

Discover the background to The Oakridge Centre's unique Space for Conversations podcasts in this Introduction to Podcast Series 2 which provides an outline of the episodes to follow in this, and future series
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Episode 14 Series 2: Talking is Better than Yoga

Why and how talking can benefit teams and people within organisations. Contemporary future leadership is explored and what effective organisations need to think about - not to just survive but to thrive.
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Episode 13 Series 2: What about the Administrators?

The importance of enriching the Administrator role and appreciating Administrators as the unsung heroes in your organisation.
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Episode 12 Series 2: The Art of the Leading Hand

The importance of enriching your job role as a 'Leading Hand' in your organisation. How to master the skills around doing something that you are good at, that grows and improves on your exceptional skills.
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Episode 11 Series 2: Maintaining Effective Team Performance

The importance of developing and maintaining team effectiveness and performance to thrive into the future. What effective and inspirational leadership looks like and measuring team performance exploring the TEA model.
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Episode 10 Series 2: Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

What is EQ? Also known as Emotional Quotient, which is a set of emotional and social skills in order to make a change for the better. Measures on the performance and insights into EQ are explored around self expression, decision making and managing stress.
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Episode 9 Series 2: Finding Your Voice at Work

Finding your Voice will be found at the heart of many of The Oakridge Centre's Leadership Programmes. In order to manage or lead others, we need to 'manage ourselves' through personal considered thought and external communication to create better interactions with others. Tools are shared to help you achieve your communication skills through Emotional Intelligence and Influencing techniques.
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Episode 8 Series 2 - Part 2: A Business as a Force for Better

Nicola Ryan, Director of Client Support at Rowlinson Knitwear - now One + All, discusses the B-Corp model and how through strategic communication, their leadership team helped colleagues during the pandemic and returning to work. Nicola also discusses how The Oakridge Centre's STRIDE programme (six month female leadership programme) supported her through building her confidence not to just strive but to thrive to greater career opportunities.
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Episode 8 Series 2 - Part 1: How a privately owned business evolved into an employee owned business and the reason why

Nicola Ryan, Director of Colleague Support at Rowlinson Knitwear - now One + All, discusses how their organisation worked through employee/colleague ownership of the business. Using the B-Corp route, how they restructed teams to achieve what they needed to do for the business growth. The process they went through in developing an Employee Assistant Programme to generate progress and to improve customer support overall.
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Episode 7 Series 2: Tribes and Communities

What does effective and inspirational contemporary leadership look like? How do I build great tribes and communities? In this podcast we explore what successful organisations need to pay attention to not to just survive but thrive now and into the future. We define what a 'Tribe' means and how to change a leadership style from managing a crowd into managing a Tribe.
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Episode 6 Series 2: 'Muddy Boots' Pragmatism - the Art of the Possible...

This podcast focuses on a train-the-trainer programme as a case study developed for a large client health sciences industry. The programme was delivered face-to-face online and focused on the use of effective questioning by assessors and what the assessors role entails. The interactive workbook and test tools and processes which were developed to create solutions are shared in the podcast.
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Episode 5 Series 2: Managing our Energy to Maintain Momentum

What is contemporary leadership and how we need to manage our energy. We explore the model around Resilience, Motivation, Problem Solving and Maintaining Energy. Understanding how to manage your physical and mental energy and calming your spiritual/deep energy to access your values and beliefs and purpose - both personally and at work.
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Episode 4 Series 2: Knowing me, Knowing You - Leadership Development

What makes for great leadership and what will effective organisations do to survive and thrive over the months to follow? We focus on how to improve work performance in knowing yourself and your team. The benefits of using Myers Briggs for impact and results testing and we also delve into personality types of extroverts and introverts and how you relate to one another.
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Episode 3 Series 2: How can we Leverage Change to Accelerate Organisational Performance?

In this podcast we share experiences of programmes The Oakridge Centre has developed for the education sector and broader industries, on how leaders can take people with them in times of change by leveraging Change Champions within teams to accelerate organisational performance.
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Episode 2 Series 2: The Oakridge Centre's STRIDE- Six Month Female Leadership Programme

The facilitators who deliver the STRIDE programme, provide an outline about the programme and the benefits it brings to those aspiring, and existing, female leaders. An inspiring and leadership insightful podcast for women wishing to progress their career.
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Episode 1 Series 2: An introduction to Series 2 of The Oakridge Centre's Space for Conversations Podcasts

In this podcast we discuss with colleagues our client feedback from Series One and the ambitions for Series Two in bringing even more to the Space for Conversations podcast series. We also welcome the start of introducing great client conversations too.