Highly Relational

www.linkedin.com/in/learyjoyce

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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All Right Now - The Paradox of Change with John Leary-Joyce

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:00:00 GMT

What really creates change - in coaching, in leadership, and in life?

Highly Relational

Season 4 - Episode 5

All Right Now - The Paradox of Change

with John Leary-Joyce

In this episode, host Robert Digings is joined by John Leary-Joyce, one of the UK’s foremost Gestalt practitioners and pioneers of Gestalt coaching. Founder and CEO of the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), co-founder of the Gestalt Centre London, and author of The Fertile Void: Gestalt Coaching at Work, John has spent more than 45 years developing and teaching relational, embodied ways of working.

Together, Robert and John explore how Gestalt principles - awareness, contact, embodiment, and presence - translate from therapy and personal development into leadership, team coaching, and organisational life.

In this conversation, they discuss:

🌀 The power and magic of working in the moment - and why presence changes everything
🧠 How emotions and anxiety disrupt clear thinking, and how the body offers a direct route back to awareness
💬 What Gestalt reveals about contact, connection, and the interruptions that limit our aliveness
🌿 The Paradox of Change - why transformation happens when we stop trying to be what we’re not
🧘‍♀️ The Fertile Void - trusting the creative potential that emerges when we pause and allow
💃 What tango and Gestalt have in common - and what 'flow' looks like in both movement and leadership
🧩 How great teams mirror this flow: open, connected, and unafraid to speak or stay silent

John’s message is timeless: real change begins in the present moment. When we stop striving and simply allow ourselves to be, the relationship - and the learning - takes care of itself.

John Leary-Joyce:

www.aoec.com

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-clark-psychologist

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Hetal Patel

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Walking on the Moon - Leading in Extremis with Caroline Clark

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:30:00 GMT

What can space exploration teach us about leadership, teamwork, and trust?

Highly Relational

Season 4 - Episode 4

Walking on the Moon - Leading in Extremis

with Caroline Clark

In this episode, host Robert Digings speaks with Caroline Clark - leadership and performance coach, former senior leader in construction and tech, and now an analogue astronaut. Drawing on her unique experience training in a simulated lunar habitat, Caroline shares what life in extreme environments can reveal about how teams operate under pressure here on Earth.

Together, Robert and Caroline explore:

🚀 What it means to be an analogue astronaut and how space psychology informs team performance
💫 Why dynamic leadership - the right person leading at the right moment - creates resilience and agility
🧭 How to build trust strong enough for leadership to move fluidly around a team
😅 Why “if there’s no humour, there’s no trust” - and how laughter signals high levels of belonging
💬 The power of wellbeing checks, vulnerability, and caring for each other under pressure
🌍 How lessons from the International Space Station can shape leadership and culture back on Earth

Caroline’s message is clear: in complex, high-stakes environments - whether outer space or the modern workplace - the strongest leaders are those who can let go of status, share control, and build trust that allows everyone to step up when it matters most.

Caroline Clark:

www.carolineclark.space

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Hetal Patel

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Highly Relational Team - Ask Me Anything #6/6

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week - Ask Me Anything - Episode #6/6

With Robert Digings and series producer Julie Allen asking the questions

To close out the launch of the Highly Relational Team, we’re doing something completely new: our first ever Ask Me Anything.

After the biggest month we’ve ever had on the podcast -

25 Two Minute Teamwork episodes, a three-part mini-series with Anni Townend, and a roundtable hosted by Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie - today we open the floor to you.

In this special episode, series producer Julie Allen steps out from behind the scenes to put your questions to Robert Digings, covering everything from the origins of the model to the realities of team life, conflict, leadership, and relational development.

In this episode, Robert explores:

• His greatest joy working with leaders and teams

• How the Highly Relational Team model began - and why he finally decided to share it

• Why the model has 25 elements and how to find an easy way in

• Using the model with teams of different sizes - from pairs to global groups

• The role of leaders in shaping (and sometimes complicating) team dynamics

• How to turn personality differences into real strengths

• How to think about conflict in a team - and why it’s co-created

• Why presence matters more than anything

• Which element he believes is most essential

• And why the model is framed with the words: “This is not the truth”

Along the way, Robert speaks to the complexity of human relationships, the importance of conscious development, and the delight — and difficulty — of helping teams grow.

Did we get to your question?

We couldn’t answer all of them in the time we had, but every question shaped the conversation.

And yes - we’ll definitely do another AMA next year.

Explore the model

Visit highlyrelational.com to see the interactive landing page with:

• All 25 Two Minute Teamwork videos

• Conversations explaining the Personal Process, Team Process and full model

• Free resources to help you bring the approach to life

What’s next?

Season 4 continues next week.

And throughout December we’ll be joined by three brilliant guests - each with something important to say about teams, leadership and what really drives their success.

If you’re enjoying the series, please share it with a colleague or leave a rating or review - it makes a huge difference.

For more information about the Highly Relational approach visit highlyrelational.com

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Podshop Studios - Tom Wright

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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Highly Relational Team - What's Next?! #5/6

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week - What's Next?! - Episode #5/6

With Robert Digings

As we bring launch week for the Highly Relational Team to a close, Robert takes a moment to look back - and look ahead. After three weeks of opening the doors to the full model, today’s episode gathers up what’s happened, offers gratitude, and sets the stage for what’s coming next.

In this episode, Robert reflects on:

• The mini-series with Anni Townend exploring the Personal Process, Team Process and complete model

• The roundtable with Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie, Lucy Widdowson and Alastair Kidd

• The release of all 25 Two Minute Teamwork episodes - now available on the interactive landing page

• What it means to put people before productivity, team before task, and relationships before results

And he shares what’s coming next for the Highly Relational community:

Your chance to take part - Ask Me Anything

Next week we’re doing something new: an AMA episode.

Robert invites your questions about anything to do with teams, relationships and the Highly Relational Team - from any of the 25 elements to the meaning of Adventure.

Send your question to podcast@highlyrelational.com

Resources now available

At highlyrelational.com, you’ll find:

• Videos introducing every element

• Short conversations explaining how the elements fit together

• Reflections on the philosophy behind the model

Looking ahead to next year

Robert previews what’s coming in 2026:

• A full new website with deeper resources

• A beta version of the team assessment

• A professional training programme for practitioners who want to bring the Highly Relational approach into their own work

Season 4 continues…

There are still three episodes to come this season, featuring:

• Caroline Clark - on analog astronaut missions, extreme environments and relational resilience

• John Leary-Joyce - on Gestalt, embodiment and showing up in the moment

• Angie Wakeman - on the wisdom and freedom of the Clown archetype

Robert closes with thanks - for listening, for being part of this community, and for exploring a different way of thinking about teams.

For more information about the Highly Relational approach visit highlyrelational.com

🎙️ Coming soon:

An Ask Me Anything episode where Robert answers listener questions.

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Podshop Studios - Tom Wright

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Adventure #25/25

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #25: ADVENTURE

Adventure is the culmination of the Highly Relational Team - the moment when everything integrates
It's aliveness in action. The work stretches you, but doesn’t split you. People are learning, growing, daring, and still deeply connected
It’s when a team steps into the unknown together - guided by purpose, anchored by trust, fuelled by curiosity

🎙️ Coming soon:

Longer conversations explaining how the 25 elements fit together, a roundtable with practitioners on what really makes teams thrive, and an Ask Me Anything episode where Robert answers listener questions.

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/dr-gwen-stirling-wilkie-🌐-edgewalker-6171356

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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Highly Relational Team - Teams and How They Come to Life #4/6

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week Roundtable - Teams and How They Come to Life - Episode #4/6

Hosted by Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie with guests Lucy Widdowson, Alastair Kidd & Robert Digings

As part of launch week for the Highly Relational Team, this special roundtable brings together four experienced practitioners to explore a central question: What really brings teams to life?

Hosted by Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie, and joined by Lucy Widdowson, Alastair Kidd, and Robert Digings, this lively, insightful conversation examines how teams thrive in an unpredictable world - and why the relational fabric between people matters as much as the work itself.

In this episode, our guests explore:

• Why teams need both individual development and collective development

• How teams can become their own mirror - building the courage to look at themselves

• Why 'soft skills' are now the hardest and most essential skills in team life

• What collaboration really means - and why most teams confuse it with coordination

• The limits of hub-and-spoke leadership, and the power of collective responsibility

• How future team life may include AI members - and what won’t change at all: our humanity

As the discussion closes, each guest shares their advice for teams wanting to start, reset or reinvigorate their team development journey.

For more information about the Highly Relational Team visit highlyrelational.com

🎙️ Coming soon:

A look ahead to the rest of Season 4 and our plans for 2026, and an Ask Me Anything episode where Robert answers listener questions.

Guest Host - Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie:

www.seedsoftransformation.co.uk

Organisational Consultant, Edgewalker and Author of Omni-Working: Work effectively in all ways, from all places

Lucy Widdowson:

www.linkedin.com/in/lucywiddowson

www.performance-edge.co.uk

Accredited Executive and Team Coach and Consultant. Founder of Performance Edge

Alastair Kidd:

www.inkedin.com/in/alastairkidd

www.alastairkidd.com

Systemic leadership sherpa, coach, and facilitator. Generative leadership and teaming

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach. Creator of the Highly Relational Team

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Podshop Studios - Tom Wright

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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Two Minute Teamwork - Ambition #24/25

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #24: AMBITION

Ambition isn’t just about wanting more - it’s about wanting meaningfully. It’s the energy that turns purpose into pursuit
It's born where contribution and commitment meet, fuelled by courage - drive with integrity
It challenges comfort, sets direction, and inspires effort - seeking success with people, not over them

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/anni-townend-leadership

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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Highly Relational Team - Complete Model #3/6

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week Mini-Series - Episode #3/6

Hosted by Anni Townend with guest Robert Digings

In this final episode of our special launch-week mini-series, we bring everything together - the full map of the Highly Relational Team.

Guest host Anni Townend speaks with Robert Digings about how the Personal Process and Team Process combine into a complete, relational approach to team development. Together they explore the elements that emerge when the two halves meet: Story, Ambition and Adventure, supported by the enablers Creativity and Courage.

In this conversation, Robert shares:

• Why teams thrive in environments with aliveness, risk and meaning

• How creativity and courage enable teams to stay together through challenge

• Why Adventure is the heart of relational team life - the journey a team chooses to take

• How corporate life is a continual cycle of joining, belonging and leaving

• Why a truly relational team sees one another as humans first, colleagues second

We also explore the model’s two developmental dimensions:

The horizontal progression: Showing Up, Joining In, Staying With, Counting On, Facing Out
The vertical progression: Communicating, Cooperating, Coordinating, Collaborating, Community

As the series closes, Robert offers a simple starting point: Have a conversation - a quality, spacious conversation about relationship, belonging, adventure, creativity and courage - all around the work of being human together.

🎙️ Coming soon:

A roundtable discussion with four experienced practitioners on what really makes teams come to life, a look ahead to next year, and an Ask Me Anything episode where Robert answers listener questions.

Guest Host - Anni Townend:

www.annitownend.com

www.collaborationequation.com

Leadership Coach, Partner and Executive Mentor to C-Suite, Senior Teams and Boards

Co-founder of the Collaboration Equation

Podcast Host - Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this three-part mini-series Robert explains how the 25 elements of the Highly Relational Team fit together to create a powerful team development model.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Brown Bear Studios - Tom Dalton

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Story #23/25

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #23: STORY

Story is how we make sense of experience. It’s where facts meet feeling, where data gains direction
It arises when congruency and connection meet through creativity - the bridge between insight and inspiration
Story defines how you remember success, interpret failure, and imagine the future

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/anni-townend-leadership

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Highly Relational Team - Team Process #2/6

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week Mini-Series - Episode #2/6

Hosted by Anni Townend with guest Robert Digings

In this second episode of our special mini-series for launch week, we move from self to system - exploring the Team Process at the heart of the Highly Relational Team.

Guest host Anni Townend interviews Robert Digings about the three core elements that shape how individuals join in together: Belonging, Connection and Commitment - exploring how these practices create unity, through deeper connection, commitment and belief in each other.

In this conversation, Robert shares:

• Why the destination of team development is not performance - but community

• Why belonging must be co-created, never imposed

• How connection deepens when teams embrace vulnerability and difference

• Why commitment is ultimately about committing to each other, not just the task

• Why intimacy in teams is not romantic, but profoundly human - and essential

You’ll hear how the double overlaps — Intimacy (Belonging + Connection) and Identity (Belonging + Commitment) - build towards Unity, the outcome of the Team Process and the basis of collaborative working.

To close, Robert offers one practical step for leaders this week: Make time for your team to simply be together. Eat, laugh, share stories - to build the fabric of community.

In our final episode, we bring everything together: the complete Highly Relational Team model, the enablers that support it, and the adventure that help teams grow, mature and achieve together.

🎙️ Coming soon:

A roundtable discussion with four experienced practitioners on what really makes teams come to life, a look ahead to next year, and an Ask Me Anything episode where Robert answers listener questions.

Guest Host - Anni Townend:

www.annitownend.com

www.collaborationequation.com

Leadership Coach, Partner and Executive Mentor to C-Suite, Senior Teams and Boards

Co-founder of the Collaboration Equation

Podcast Host - Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this three-part mini-series Robert explains how the 25 elements of the Highly Relational Team fit together to create a powerful team development model.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Brown Bear Studios - Tom Dalton

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Unity #22/25

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #22: UNITY

Unity is when a team stops being a collection of individuals and starts becoming a community
It's the triple overlap of belonging, connection, and commitment - the felt sense of we
It’s alignment without sameness - diversity held together by shared identity and ambition

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/anni-townend-leadership

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Highly Relational Team - Personal Process #1/6

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week Mini-Series - Episode #1/6

Hosted by Anni Townend with guest Robert Digings

In this first episode of our special mini-series, Highly Relational Team, we begin with the first half of the model: the Personal Process - how each individual shows up in the team - as a human, colleague and leader.

Guest host Anni Townend interviews Robert Digings about the three core elements at the heart of the Personal Process: Awareness, Congruency and Contribution - exploring how these practices shape presence, deepen relationship and transform the quality of leadership.

In this conversation, Robert shares:

• The foundational value of Awareness to all personal and leadership development

• How the inner work of Congruency supports insight into ourselves and others

• Why Contribution is more about offering yourself than offering expertise

• That being is more important than doing in all developmental work

• How the present moment is full of possibility, awe and mystery

You’ll also hear how the double overlaps - Insight (Awareness + Congruency) and Immediacy (Awareness + Contribution) — support the development of Presence, the outcome of the Personal Process and the basis of relational leadership.

To close, Robert offers a simple practice to begin strengthening your own presence this week: Give a third of your attention back to yourself - to breath, body and inner experience.

In the next episode we move from self to system, exploring the Team Process and how Belonging, Connection and Commitment weave the fabric of Unity.

🎙️ Coming soon:

A roundtable discussion with four experienced practitioners on what really makes teams come to life, a look ahead to next year, and an Ask Me Anything episode where Robert answers listener questions.

Guest Host - Anni Townend:

www.annitownend.com

www.collaborationequation.com

Leadership Coach, Partner and Executive Mentor to C-Suite, Senior Teams and Boards

Co-founder of the Collaboration Equation

Podcast Host - Leaders in Conversation with Anni Townend

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this three-part mini-series Robert explains how the 25 elements of the Highly Relational Team fit together to create a powerful team development model.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Brown Bear Studios - Tom Dalton

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Presence #21/25

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #21: PRESENCE

Presence is the heart of relational leadership
It’s the integration of awareness, congruency, and contribution - the point where who you are, what you feel, and what you do, align
When you’re present, others feel it. People sense you’re there and that they’re seen

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Warrior #20/25

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #20: WARRIOR

The Warrior archetype embodies courage, commitment, and purposeful action
It’s not about aggression - it’s about service and integrity
It’s what helps a team move from intention to impact

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Magician #19/25

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #19: MAGICIAN

The Magician archetype brings creativity, curiosity, and perspective
It’s the part of us that sees patterns others miss and turns complexity into possibility
It reframes problems and helps people imagine new futures

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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Two Minute Teamwork - Lover #18/25

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #18: LOVER

The Lover archetype brings warmth, empathy, and connection
It’s the energy that turns colleagues into companions and teams into communities
It’s about caring without caretaking - offering empathy without losing boundaries

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Sovereign #17/25

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #17: SOVEREIGN

The Sovereign archetype embodies calm authority. It’s leadership rooted not in power, but in presence
It’s the part of us that holds direction and steadiness when others look for guidance
Sovereign energy shows up when you lead with clarity, but without ego

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Courage #16/25

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #16: COURAGE

Courage is action in the presence of fear
It’s not the absence of anxiety - it’s the willingness to move forward anyway
It’s speaking the difficult truth, giving the tough feedback, making the call that matters

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Creativity #15/25

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #15: CREATIVITY

Creativity, in teams, is born from connection
It emerges when people feel confident enough to explore, and brave enough to be wrong
It’s easy to treat creativity as individual brilliance, but in reality it’s a relational process

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Kinship #14/25

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #14: KINSHIP

Kinship is the sense of mutual care and belonging that develops through shared experience and respect
It isn’t friendship, though it can include it
It’s the recognition that we’re in this together - that my success and yours are linked

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Vulnerability #13/25

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #13: VULNERABILITY

Vulnerability is the doorway to real connection - it’s the moment you stop performing and start relating
When one person risks being honest, it gives everyone else permission to do the same
It isn’t confession or oversharing; it’s appropriate openness

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Reflexivity #12/25

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #12: REFLEXIVITY

The ability to momentarily step back and examine your own role in what’s unfolding in front of you
It’s awareness turned inward, but whilst in motion
Reflexivity lets you see yourself as both participant and observer

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Mindfulness #11/25

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #11: MINDFULNESS

The art of paying attention - deliberately, and without judgement
Foundation for both personal awareness and relational intelligence
It’s a way of coming home to yourself

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Identity #10/25

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #10: IDENTITY

Strong identity gives a team direction and pride
The shared story of “this is who we are, and this is why it matters"
Identity builds through experience - shared challenges, rituals and inside jokes

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Immediacy #9/25

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #09: IMMEDIACY

Immediacy is presence in action - it keeps relationships clean
It's the courage to respond directly, in the moment, with honesty and care
Immediacy sounds like quick feedback, rapid repair, spontaneous gratitude

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Intimacy #8/25

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #08: INTIMACY

Teams with intimacy operate at a deeper level of honesty
It's the courage to be real - to show up as yourself
It's not about drama - it’s about depth of connection

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Insight #7/25

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #07: INSIGHT

The shift from seeing 'out there' to understanding 'in here'
Supports greater compassion for self and others
Insight reveals the patterns beneath our behaviour

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Commitment #6/25

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #06: COMMITMENT

The glue that binds people into something dependable
The shared promise: I’m in, and I'm not going anywhere
You can count on me and I know I can count on you

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Contribution #5/25

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #05: CONTRIBUTION

The giving of yourself to the team, freely and frequently
Not just your expertise, but what you feel, notice and hope for
Contribution turns inner value into valuable expression

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Connection #4/25

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #04: CONNECTION

Emotional contact - being attuned to others in real time
What turns coordination into collaboration
How connection leads to intimacy and unity

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Congruency #3/25

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #03: CONGRUENCY

Personal alignment of thoughts, feelings, words and actions
Authentic and genuine expression of what's true
How congruency leads to insight and presence

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Belonging #2/25

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #02: BELONGING

The starting point of all joined-up teamwork, collaboration and community
Feeling welcomed, valued, included and appreciated
How belonging builds intimacy, identity and unity

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Awareness #1/25

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the launch of the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 Episode #01: AWARENESS

The starting point of all personal and team development
Awareness of self, other, and the space in between
How awareness builds insight, immediacy and presence

🎙️ Coming soon:

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two Minute Teamwork - Trailer

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Two Minute Teamwork - and a new way to think about teams.

In this short-form series, host Robert Digings introduces the launch of the Highly Relational Team - a new approach to building exceptional relationships at work.

What if teamwork wasn’t just about performance - but about relationship, awareness, belonging, and even a shared adventure?

Across 25 episodes, each just two and a half minutes long, Robert explores the elements that help teams move beyond function to truly come alive together.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll hear how the Personal Process and Team Process come together to form a complete relational model - and how to apply it in everyday team life.

💡 In this episode:

The story behind Two Minute Teamwork and why it marks the start of the Highly Relational Team launch
What to expect over the next three weeks - two new episodes every weekday
Why teamwork is both personal and collective
How “thinking as many, but acting as one” captures the essence of truly relational teams
An invitation to think differently about your team - not as a system to manage, but as a relationship to celebrate

🎙️ Coming soon:

Longer conversations explaining how the 25 elements fit together, a roundtable with practitioners on what really makes teams thrive, and an Ask Me Anything episode where Robert answers listener questions.

✨ Episodes begin Monday 3rd November with Awareness and Belonging - the first steps on the journey to becoming a Highly Relational Team.

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this short-form business podcast Robert explores the 25 elements that make up the Highly Relational Team and how you can apply them wherever you work.

Production credits:

Studio Facilities - Podshop Studios

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mini Series: Six Voices - Sharing the Thinking #3/3

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT

This three-part mini-series - Six Voices - revisits some of the most powerful moments from previous seasons of Highly Relational.

In each episode, six terrific guests offer their own unique take on one shared truth: that relationships aren’t just important to teamwork and leadership - they are the work.

About this episode

In this final instalment of Six Voices, Robert Digings brings together six remarkable guests from Season 3 - each offering a distinct lens on why relationships sit at the heart of every great team.

From seeing to serving, from diversity to dialogue, from meaning to aliveness - six different perspectives on what enables teams to truly succeed.

The six voices

🎙️ Nick Williams - Author, coach and advocate of purpose-led work, on how workplaces become communities when we learn to see and celebrate one another
🏁 Penny Mallory - Former rally driver and performance coach, on diversity as relational strength - why difference is what keeps teams resilient and ready
💬 Dr. Graham Curtis - Leadership educator and thinker, on the courage to tell the truth and why teams only build trust through honest dialogue
🧭 Karen Ellis - Consultant and co-author of Upgrade: Building Your Capacity for Complexity, on how shared meaning-making turns conflict into creativity
🌿 Clare Cracknell - Agile coach and facilitator, on servant leadership as generosity in action - removing barriers so others can grow
✨ Pete Marsh - Coach and co-creator of the Generative Leadership Map, on emotional connection and energy as the spark that makes teams truly alive

Key themes

How mutual appreciation transforms workplaces into communities of growth
Why empathy and diversity make teams stronger and more adaptable
The power of relational courage - speaking truth with care
How shared meaning fuels collaboration and creativity
Why service, not status, defines the most effective leaders

Looking ahead

Next week marks the launch of the Highly Relational Team, beginning with a brand new short-form series: Two Minute Teamwork - bite-sized reflections on the 25 essential elements of creating a Highly Relational Team.

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Mini Series: Six Voices - Finding the Love #2/3

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT

This three-part mini-series - Six Voices - revisits some of the most powerful moments from previous seasons of Highly Relational.

In each episode, six terrific guests offer their own unique take on one shared truth: that relationships aren’t just important to teamwork and leadership - they are the work.

About this episode

In this second instalment of Six Voices, Robert Digings brings together six remarkable guests from Season 2 - each offering a distinct lens on why relationships sit at the heart of every great team.

From family systems to collaboration, reflection to courage, vulnerability to learning - elements that connect people, purpose, and performance.

The six voices

🌱 Dr Julia Carden - Coach, consultant and author, on how the stories and dynamics of our first teams - our families - echo through the way we relate and collaborate at work
🤝 Jill Clancy - Leadership mentor and business adviser, on humility, ego, and the collaborative behaviours that turn difference into shared success
🧩 Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie - Author, consultant and systems thinker, on trust, alignment, and the relational groundwork that underpins high-performance teams
📖 David Kesby - Organisational coach and author of Extra-Dependent Teams, on storytelling, reflection and the “thrills and spills” that build collective learning
🔥 Steve Hearsum - Consultant, coach and provocateur, on reflexivity and the “useful discomfort” that fuels growth, resilience and real collaboration
💠 Simon Cavicchia - Executive coach, Gestalt practitioner and Ashridge faculty member, on vulnerability, shame, and rediscovering our shared humanity in leadership

Key themes

Relationship is the invisible thread that turns groups into teams
Storytelling, humility, and reflection transform performance more than process ever can
Vulnerability and discomfort aren’t weaknesses - they’re the birthplace of learning and trust
True collaboration begins when leaders replace control with connection
High-performing teams are Highly Relational - alive, courageous, and real

Looking ahead

Six Voices continues next week with Part 3, featuring guests from Season 3 - six further perspectives that expand this evolving conversation about how human connection powers team success.

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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Mini Series: Six Voices - Creating the Space #1/3

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:00:00 GMT

This three-part mini-series - Six Voices - revisits some of the most powerful moments from previous seasons of Highly Relational.

In each episode, six terrific guests offer their own unique take on one shared truth: that relationships aren’t just important to teamwork and leadership - they are the work.

About this episode

In this first episode we return to six guests from Season 1 - from coaches to creatives, researchers to executives - each illuminating a different facet of what it means to connect, collaborate, and truly belong at work.

Together they form a chorus of insight on how love, trust, humour, curiosity, and courage build the kind of teams that not only perform, but endure.

The six voices

🎙️ Rasheed Ogunlaru - Coach, author, and motivational speaker, on why leadership is built on humanity, not hierarchy
💗 Helena Clayton - Researcher and facilitator, exploring the radical power of love in organisational life
🎭 Neil Mullarkey - Comedian, author, and co-founder of The Comedy Store Players, on laughter as a bridge to trust and collaboration
🔄 Nairy McMahon - Director of CRR UK (Organisation & Relationship Systems Coaching), on curiosity, difference, and the living systems of team life
🚌 Joel Mitchell - Managing Director, Stagecoach South East, on care, community and leading large teams with heart
🌿 Anni Townend - Leadership partner and host of Leaders in Conversation, on creating safety, inclusion and courageous dialogue at the collaborative edge

Key themes

Relationships as the foundation of leadership and culture
Love, trust and belonging as performance drivers
Humour, curiosity and difference as creative catalysts
From “me” to “we” - how community builds resilience
Why courageous conversations fuel collaboration and innovation

Looking ahead

Six Voices continues next week with Part 2, featuring guests from Season 2 - six further perspectives that expand this evolving conversation about how human connection powers team success.

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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Bonus #1: Launch Special - The Adventure of Relationships

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Why do some teams succeed while others struggle - even when the structures look the same?

In this first bonus episode of Season 4, Robert steps away from the guest interviews to share the thinking that has shaped his work with teams over the past two decades.

As we get ready for the launch of the Highly Relational Team - this special reveals why relationships sit at the very heart of team success, and why leaving them to chance has such profound, unintended consequences.

Robert explores:

🌱 Why success is always determined by relationships
🎲 How relationships are often left to chance, with unintended costs
🧩 Why most current models miss the relational foundation of teamwork
👤 The importance of both individual and collective work in teams
⚡ Why small relational moments often have the biggest impact
👂 The value of staying with what is happening, even when difficult
🗺️ Why the whole endeavour is best understood as an adventure

Robert's message is clear: "Relationships are at the heart of success. They’re too important to leave to chance. Every relationship is an adventure in the making."

Robert Digings:

https://qube.cc/pets/evolvedominateordie

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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Changes - The World After Midnight with Eddie Obeng

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:00:00 GMT

What happens when the pace of change overtakes the pace of learning - or even understanding? And what if the old rules no longer apply, but we simply haven't noticed?

Highly Relational

Season 4 - Episode 3

Changes - The World After Midnight

with Eddie Obeng

In this episode, host Robert Digings speaks with Eddie Obeng - world-renowned speaker, educator, author, and founder of Pentacle: The Virtual Business School. Eddie has been described as the Rockstar of Business Education, influencing leaders and organisations worldwide, including 40% of the FTSE 100.

Eddie’s central idea - the world after midnight - describes the shift to a world where the rules have changed, but most leaders and teams are still relying on outdated assumptions and beliefs.

Together they explore:

⏳ Why the pace of change now exceeds our capacity to learn
🌀 The difference between events (which evaporate) and patterns (which persist)
🧩 The four types of change - Painting by Numbers, Movie, Quest, and Lost in the Fog - and how leaders should respond to each
🧠 Why our biology and neurology make us naturally resistant to change - and how leaders can work with that rather than against it
💬 The counterintuitive value of stakeholders who understand but disagree - and why they are “gold dust” for any project
🚫 The dangers of treating AI and technology as silver bullets - and why enhancing and empowering people is more effective than replacing them
🌱 Why dreaming a better dream isn’t indulgent - it’s essential for transformation

Special Offers:

Eddie's free offer to Qube - or just £1 for VIP tour - visit: https://qube.cc/HighlyRelationalOffer/

Free PETs mentioned in the show:

https://qube.cc/pets/digitaldestiny

https://qube.cc/pets/hopesandfears

Eddie Obeng:

www.inkedin.com/in/prof-eddie-obeng

www.eddieobeng.com

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/alice-elizabeth-driscoll

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Kung Fu Fighting - Getting Good at Conflict with Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:00:00 GMT

Most of us avoid conflict. We fear tension, fallout, or damaged relationships. But what if conflict wasn’t something to shy away from? What if it could be smart - a pathway to stronger relationships, higher trust, and better team performance?

Highly Relational

Season 4 - Episode 2

Kung Fu Fighting - Getting Good at Conflict

with Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst

In this episode, host Robert Digings is joined by Louise van Haarst and Alice Driscoll, co-founders of The Power House and co-authors of Smart Conflict: How to Have Hard Conversations at Work. Together they share how leaders and teams can move from conflict avoidance to conflict competence.

Between them, Alice and Louise have spent thousands of hours coaching leaders, boards, and teams. They argue that organisations don’t need less conflict - they need more, but of the right kind. In their work and new book, they show how to shift from destructive relational conflict to productive task conflict.

In this conversation, we explore:

🔄 Why reframing conflict as opportunity unlocks better collaboration
🧭 The Five R’s model - Reflect, Regulate, Readiness, Respond, Repair—and how to apply it
💬 Why repair is always possible, even when conversations go badly
⚖️ How to balance accountability with empathy in today’s workplace
🚦 The difference between relational conflict (“me vs. you”) and task conflict (“us vs. the problem”)
🌱 Why awareness of conflict styles matters and how teams can use diagnostics to build shared language
💡 Practical ways to bring smart conflict into your next team meeting or one-to-one

Their message is simple but powerful: conflict is inevitable, but with the right tools, it can become one of the most valuable resources for growth, creativity, and resilience at work.

Alice Driscoll:

www.thepowerhouse.company

Louise van Haarst:

www.linkedin.com/in/louise-van-haarst

www.thepowerhouse.company

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/petergreedy

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Can You Feel It - Creating Workplace Culture with Peter Greedy

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:00:00 GMT

What makes a workplace culture healthy, compelling, and sustainable = and when does it tip into something toxic?

Highly Relational

Season 4 - Episode 1

Can You Feel It - Creating Workplace Culture

with Peter Greedy

In this episode, host Robert Digings speaks with Peter Greedy, leadership coach, consultant, Belbin practitioner, and Ikigai trainer. With over 35 years of experience in healthcare and leadership development, Peter brings a deeply personal perspective: as a young man studying in London, he was recruited into a cult. What began as belonging and meaning turned into control and harm. That experience now profoundly informs his work on workplace culture, leadership, and his current doctoral research in coaching psychology.

Together, Robert and Peter explore:

🌱 Why culture is best understood as what it feels like to be in the workplace
🔍 How cult-like tendencies—binary thinking, exclusion, control—can also appear in subtle ways inside organisations
🧭 Why self-awareness in leaders is essential for shaping the culture of their teams
📊 Peter’s development of the Workplace Culture Index—a new way to assess and improve culture at team and organisational levels
💡 How values, psychological safety, and “moral ambition” can transform teams and organisations
🚫 Where toxicity comes from, and how leaders can face into it with curiosity, honesty, and courage
✔️ Practical steps you can take in your next meeting to make your team culture healthier and more human

Peter’s message is clear: great culture is possible, but it requires intention, effort, and values-driven leadership.

Peter Greedy:

www.petergreedy.com

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Season 4 Trailer: Highly Relational

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:00:00 GMT

We’re back for a fourth series of Highly Relational!

This autumn through until Christmas we’ve a great line-up of excellent guests for you, including:

PETER GREEDY – on corporate culture, leadership, and how culture can become toxic
KARIM HIRANI – on the role of AI in teams
LOUISE VAN HAARST & ALICE DRISCOLL – on how to get good at conflict at work
JOHN LEARY-JOYCE – on somatic wisdom and in-the-moment leadership

And right in the middle of this season, we’ll be officially launching The Highly Relational Team. This is more than just a new model – it’s the bringing together of everything Robert's learnt over the last 20 years about what enables people to do their best work together. A practical framework designed to help any workplace build stronger, more relational, and so more effective teams. It’s about turning everyday collaboration into something extraordinary.

Tune in every Wednesday on your favourite podcast app or YouTube to hear stories, insights and useful tips from leaders, authors, coaches and consultants about how to create terrific teams at work.

And don’t forget – if you’re new, or fancy another listen – you’ve got the whole of Seasons 1, 2 and 3 ready to catch up on.

Your host is team development consultant Robert Digings and the conversation focuses on relationships, teamwork, and all the joys and messiness of human collaboration.

Do please like, subscribe and review wherever you’re listening or watching – it makes such a difference.

To join in the online conversation follow Robert on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robertdigings

Enjoy!

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Bonus #2: Season End Reflections - Present Moment Mindset

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:51 GMT

In this bonus episode Robert shares his reflections on the six conversations from the second half of the series - in the hope it’s a welcome opportunity for you to reflect too.

We really do want you to make these ideas your own - to incorporate them into your leadership style or consultancy practice, so they make a difference to the individuals and teams you’re in relationship with.

Robert's two standout themes are, firstly the enormous importance of paying attention to the PRESENT MOMENT - our very sense of being here, now - with all the possibilities that includes, and secondly the huge impact our MINDSET has on our moment-to-moment experience, our behaviours and our success.

With expert contributions from:

Alastair Kidd and Pete Marsh:

S03 E12: Come Alive - Generative Teaming

Karen Ellis:

S03 E11: Making Your Mind Up - Meaning and Intersubjectivity

Will Glendinning:

S03 E09: Moments Like This - Adventures in Creativity

Penny Mallory:

S03 E07: When The Going Gets Tough - Mental Toughness

Garry Sanderson:

S03 E08: Everything Changes - Collaborative Performance

Clare Cracknell:

S03 E10: Wild Horses - Serving Human Potential

Robert Digings:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-e8ZJBzw8Y

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Come Alive - Generative Teaming with Alastair Kidd and Pete Marsh

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:13 GMT

How can generative leadership lead to better decisions, better teamwork and better outcomes? Why without an understanding of vertical development is it very difficult to appreciate what’s going on in us, our teams and our organisations? What are the tangible benefits of embracing greater complexity in our lives - whether at work or at home?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 12

Come Alive - Generative Teaming

with Alastair Kidd and Pete Marsh

Alastair Kidd and Pete Marsh are two long-time coach/ facilitators with a passion for understanding the dynamics that exist in organisations around relationships, maturity and complexity, and the new ways of being together that can arise, leading to altogether-better outcomes for everyone involved. In today's conversation Pete and Alastair discuss their collaboration around GENERATIVE LEADERSHIP and GENERATIVE TEAMING and why - for them - this is the way forward for leaders and organisations to thrive, amid the myriad of challenges we’re all currently facing.

Videos:

This is Me - The Greatest Showman - Keala Settle (workshop session to get the movie greenlit)

How Stairway to Heaven was written - Jimmy Page (BBC News)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDo4CA13LbY

Alastair Kidd:

www.linkedin.com/in/alastairkidd

www.alastairkidd.com

Pete Marsh:

www.linkedin.com/in/petemarsh1

www.petemarshconsulting.co.uk

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/karen-ellis-41a3b1311

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Making Your Mind Up - Meaning and Intersubjectivity with Karen Ellis

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:00:47 GMT

Why is meaning-making so relevant to our working lives and the challenges we face here? How can we understand ourselves and each other better by asking some simple questions when things get difficult? What part does meaning-making play in relationships, collaboration, problem solving and psychological wellbeing?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 11

Making Your Mind Up - Meaning and Intersubjectivity

with Karen Ellis

Karen Ellis is a business consultant who helps individuals, teams and organisations with their meaning-making. She’s the founder of the business Adaptology, co-author of the book Upgrade - Building your capacity for complexity, and is particularly interested in how meaning is created between individuals - a concept known as intersubjectivity. In today's conversation Karen discusses how we make meaning in our lives - both with our friends and families, and at work - and its fundamental importance to relationships, collaboration, decision making and psychological wellbeing.

Karen Ellis:

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/clarecracknell

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Wild Horses - Serving Human Potential with Clare Cracknell

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:06 GMT

Why is servant leadership so effective at supporting the potential of others? How can leaders best undertake the challenging - and rewarding - opportunity of working on themselves? What is Equine Assisted Learning and how can it be used to develop the leaders and teams of the future?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 10

Wild Horses - Serving Human Potential

with Clare Cracknell

Clare Cracknell is an Enterprise Agile Coach for one of the UK’s insurance groups, she’s a dedicated advocate of Servant Leadership and a highly experienced Equine Assisted Learning practitioner - which, as you may know, involves using horses to help individuals and leaders develop their emotional connection and intelligence with themselves and others. In today's conversation Clare discusses her ongoing passion for personal growth - what it is to be human, how we can best develop as individuals and teams, and the huge opportunity we have to serve those around us to grow and develop their potential.

Clare Cracknell:

www.clareandthefox.com

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/willglendinning

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Moments Like This - Adventures in Creativity with Will Glendinning

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:26 GMT

What happens when we define our own value and what we believe to be the point of what we do? How can dictatorial leadership with democratic management often be the key to success? Why is it important to help people discover what they really care about?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 9

Moments Like This - Adventures in Creativity

with Will Glendinning

Will Glendinning is an executive producer, entrepreneur, author, creator and adventurer. With a rich background in designing, producing and delivering events at the highest possible level, Will has worked with world leaders, governments, global businesses, international performers and household names. In today's conversation he talks to us about what he's come to understand about leadership, creativity and taking risks - along with why he believes life - and work - are about significant, stand-out moments rather than the whole experience.

Will Glendinning:

www.willglendinning.com

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/garrysanderson

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Megan Thomas

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Everything Changes - Collaborative Performance with Garry Sanderson

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:34 GMT

How can collaboration be approached much more intentionally? Why is what you consciously think, so much less important than how you actually behave? What aspects of the working environment can we engineer for collaborative success?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 8

Everything Changes - Collaborative Performance

with Garry Sanderson

Garry Sanderson is a leadership and behavioural consultant, founder of Visualyze, and author of the recently published - The Change Engineer. As the title suggests, Garry has a technical engineering background, but it’s his love of applied behavioural science that’s caused him to question the very way organisations - and therefore leaders - set their people up for success. In today's conversation we explore human collaboration - what it is, how and when it happens, and the myriad of ways it can be undermined, poorly prioritised and readily left to chance.

Garry Sanderson:

www.change-engineer.com

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/pennymallory

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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When The Going Gets Tough - Mental Toughness with Penny Mallory

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:59 GMT

Why is mental toughness so readily misunderstood and what does it actually mean? How could developing it improve your life and leadership capability? What would you need to work on to achieve mental toughness in the situations that matter to you most?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 7

When The Going Gets Tough - Mental Toughness

with Penny Mallory

Penny Mallory is a former Champion Rally Driver, TV presenter, author and international keynote speaker on mental toughness. As a coach and consultant who works with both individuals and senior execs, Penny knows that mental toughness isn’t something that can just be taught - but needs to be developed and worked on at all levels. In today's conversation we explore the role mental toughness plays in what we achieve in all areas of our life, along with its valuable psychological counterpart mental sensitivity.

Penny Mallory:

www.pennymallory.co.uk

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Nozzle Media - Richard Lannen

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Season 3 Mid-Season Trailer: Highly Relational

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:09 GMT

Over the next few weeks Season 3 of Highly Relational will continue with more great guests, sharing what they’ve come to understand about what enables people to gel together and get stuff done.

And if you’re new to this podcast, do check out Series One and Two! You’ll find conversations about APPLIED CREATIVITY, SYSTEMS COACHING, COLLABORATIVE EDGE, STRATEGIC NARRATIVE and PSYCHOANALYSIS AT WORK.

So what’s in store for the remaining six episodes of Season 3?

Well, we return next week with guests including:

PENNY MALLORY - champion rally driver and now international keynote speaker on mental toughness
WILL GLENDINNING - executive producer and director, designer, writer and occasional adventurer
GARRY SANDERSON - is a coach, consultant and expert in behavioral science - he’ll be joining us to explore what he calls collaborative performance
And CLARE CRACKNELL - an enterprise Agile coach and highly experienced Equine Assisted Learning practitioner

Do join us then for more fascinating conversation about all things TEAM!

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Bonus #1: Mid-Season Reflections - Intimate Wisdom

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:00:38 GMT

In this first bonus episode of Season 3 Robert shares his reflections on the six conversations we’ve had so far - in the hope it’s a welcome opportunity for you to reflect too.

Robert's two standout themes are, firstly the importance of really getting to know those we work with, so that we create a level of professional INTIMACY, and secondly how our approach to learning can lead to insight and WISDOM that can be applied for everyone’s benefit.

With expert contributions from:

Nick Williams:

S03 E01: The Calling - Inspirational Leadership

Karen Edwards:

S03 E02: Better Together - Delivering Successful Live Events

Anise Bullimore:

S03 E05: Walk of Life - Resilience and the Great Outdoors

Andrew Gibbons:

S03 E04: School's Out - Active Learning

Nia Thomas:

S03 E03: Knowing Me, Knowing You - Raising Awareness of Awareness

Graham Curtis:

S03 E06: Don't Change - Relational Complexity

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/dr-graham-curtis-6b931911

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Don't Change - Relational Complexity with Graham Curtis

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:00:32 GMT

What can complexity theory reveal about organisational life? Why are curiosity and doubt such useful leadership qualities? How might you go about bringing the desired future into the living present?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 6

Don't Change - Relational Complexity

with Graham Curtis

Graham Curtis is an expert in organisational development and the former Director of Learning & Research at Roffey Park Institute. With a background in senior leadership - both operational and human resources - Graham's doctoral research focused on the role of OD practitioners in culture change. He's passionate about group dynamics and the transformative power of relationships. In today's conversation we explore the power of curiosity and doubt, and discuss why functional collision in organisations is so problematic and what senior leadership teams can do about it.

Graham Curtis:

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/anise

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Walk of Life - Resilience and the Great Outdoors with Anise Bullimore

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:00:59 GMT

How could going for a walk with your team be good for business? What's the best preparation for a difficult conversation or meeting? How can you build resilience one step and one breath at a time?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 5

Walk of Life - Resilience and the Great Outdoors

with Anise Bullimore

Anise Bullimore is a coach and consultant who specialises in resilience and walking! With a previous background in educational technology and teaching leadership development, Anise’s work now looks at the physical and mental side of coaching - using our environment and breath to have those difficult to face conversations. Anise has come to understand that building resilience and ‘walkshops’ are the key to solving problems, managing stress and finding the space to combat our potentially overwhelming thoughts. In today's conversation we explore why developing resilience together is a terrific way for teams to develop not only the skills to survive, but the ability to thrive.

Anise Bullimore:

www.walkcoachlearn.co.uk

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-gibbons-fcipd-10707317

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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School's Out - Active Learning with Andrew Gibbons

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:00:32 GMT

How do we turn our passive learning into something more active? Why is reflecting on past events not necessarily the best form of reflection? Who could be our learning partner and what value might we get from finding one?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 4

School's Out - Active Learning

with Andrew Gibbons

Andrew Gibbons is a coach and consultant who is fascinated by LEARNING - in our businesses, in our teams and as individuals. Andrew has over four decades of working in the coaching industry, is a podcast host, and the creator of the Learning Locker Group. He is of course also committed to his own learning having kept a handwritten learning log since 1987 - 1.5 million words and counting! Andrew certainly believes that ‘everyday is a school day’ and that we all have the ability to continuously learn, grow and develop - his work is all about the HOW. In today's conversation we explore why ACTIVE LEARNING and rewarding those who commit to it, should be the new norm - and that this is the true key to creating exceptional leaders.

Andrew Gibbons:

www.andrewgibbons.co.uk

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/nia-d-thomas

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Nozzle Media - Richard Lannen

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Knowing Me, Knowing You - Raising Awareness of Awareness with Nia Thomas

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:00:53 GMT

What part does self-awareness play in effective leadership? How can we intentionally develop our capacity for it and what might the benefits be? What responsibility do we really have for another person's experience of us?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 3

Knowing Me, Knowing You - Raising Awareness of Awareness

with Nia Thomas

Nia Thomas is a charity director, fellow podcaster and author of ‘The Self-Awareness Superhighway’. Her doctoral research at the University of South Wales Business School explored the links between SELF-AWARENESS and LEADER EFFECTIVENESS. Previously Nia has worked in the NHS, local government and civil service in England and Wales. She is passionate - evangelical even - about raising awareness of awareness, because of the myriad benefits it can bring to our lives. In today's conversation we explore the crucial part self-aware leadership plays in creating generative working environments that meet the needs of our workforce, now and in the future.

Nia Thomas:

www.knowingselfknowingothers.co.uk

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/karen-edwards-events

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Better Together - Delivering Successful Live Events with Karen Edwards

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 23:00:07 GMT

What can intact teams learn from the way creative project teams come together? How can you experiment in a working environment where you only get one chance to get it right? What are the leadership challenges of large-scale live event production?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 2

Better Together - Delivering Successful Live Events

with Karen Edwards

Karen Edwards is a senior events specialist, Level Up mentor and founder of Bright Events - a done-for-you event management company. With 15 years’ experience of event production, Karen now partners with all sorts of clients, stakeholders and suppliers to realise large, complex live events. In today's conversation Karen shares the unique people and leadership challenges of live event production, and reveals how she creates short-term projects teams that are set up for success. There’s much intact teams can learn from diverse creative project teams that are required to get to know each other quickly, work together under considerable stress and get it right first-time once the audience turns up.

Karen Edwards:

www.brighteventsltd.com

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/iamnickwilliams

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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The Calling - Inspirational Leadership with Nick Williams

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:00:52 GMT

Could leadership be an act of creativity or perhaps even love? Could the highest goal of leadership be to create community? What part might The Muse play in inspiring us, if only we were open to it?

Highly Relational

Season 3 - Episode 1

The Calling - Inspirational Leadership

with Nick Williams

Nick Williams is a coach, speaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author of 19 books, including ‘The Work We Were Born To Do’, ‘How To Be Inspired’ and ‘Powerful Beyond Measure’. He has over 3 decades’ experience in the coaching industry and has worked with clients ranging from Olympians to Golden Globe award winners. In today's conversation Nick argues that leadership isn’t just a skill to be developed - or a role that comes with direct reports - but can be an innate calling, which comes with its own responsibilities and an openness to inspiration, whatever the source - including the possibility of insights coming from ‘The Muse’.

Nick Williams:

www.iamnickwilliams.com

Books by Nick include:

‘The Work We Were Born To Do’

‘How To Be Inspired'

'Powerful Beyond Measure'

and 16 others

Robert Digings:

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Season 3 Trailer: Highly Relational

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:54:37 GMT

We’re back for a third series of Highly Relational!

We have 12 excellent guests lined up for this series, including:

PENNY MALLORY - former champion rally driver and now international keynote speaker on mental toughness
NICK WILLIAMS - coach, speaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author of 19 books, including ‘The Work We Were Born To Do’
WILL GLENDINNING - business owner, entrepreneur, author, creator and adventurer
And ‘leader effectiveness’ expert - DR NIA THOMAS - Charity Director, fellow podcaster and author of ‘The Self-Awareness Superhighway’

Tune in every Wednesday on your favourite podcasting app or YouTube to listen to our guest’s stories, tips and insights on how to create amazing teams at work.

And don’t forget, whether you’re new or fancy another listen we have two previous series available for you to catch up on - just scroll down!

Your host is Robert Digings and the conversation focuses on relationships, teamwork and all the joys and messiness of human collaboration.

Do please subscribe - and consider writing a review - wherever you’re listening or watching!

To join in the online conversation follow Robert on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robertdigings/

Enjoy!

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Bonus #2: Season End Reflections - Listening is Vulnerability

Tue, 28 May 2024 23:00:29 GMT

In this bonus episode Robert reflects on the second half of the series, sharing his personal thoughts about the conversations he's had and the stand out themes of LISTENING and VULNERABILITY. He thanks the guests and listeners, asks for topic suggestions and guest recommendations and provides a Brucey Bonus!

Listen here to find out more.

If you enjoyed Robert's reflections and want to hear more try the mid-season reflection episode (BONUS #1: MID-SEASON REFLECTIONS - RELATIONAL LEADERSHIP) or if a particular clip drew you in listen to the full episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify or watch on YouTube.

Honourable Mentions -

Jill Clancy - S02 E07

Best Behaviour - Effective Collaboration

Philippa White - S02 E10

Everything Is Broken - Leadership and Humanity

Colin Smith - S02 E08

Hear You Me - Listening To Connect

Steve Hearsum - S02 E09

Silver Bullet - The Myth of Fixability

Simon Cavicchia - S02 E12

Shame Shame - Embracing Our Vulnerability

Kate Trafford - S02 E11

Born This Way - Authentic Success

Craig Goldblatt - S02 E03

It Only Takes A Minute - Being on Purpose

Robert Digings -

https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-cavicchia-1a6a521/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits -

Studio Manager at Spiritland Studio Kings Cross - Ed Gill

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Shame Shame - Embracing Our Vulnerability with Simon Cavicchia

Tue, 21 May 2024 23:00:57 GMT

How easy to you find it to say ‘I don’t know’? How does our childhood shame and anxiety shape us as leaders? Why do our beliefs about vulnerabilities impact the way we work together?

Highly Relational Season 2 - Episode 12

Shame Shame – Embracing our Vulnerability with Simon Cavicchia

Simon Cavicchia is an executive coach and consultant whose work focuses on making vulnerability more ordinary and bringing our feelings of shame and anxiety into everyday conversations.

With a background of working with national charities, the media and social care and as a member at Hult Ashbridge Business School Simon is here today to share his journey with shame and anxiety as a consultant and a human himself. Simon discusses how our childhood experiences and perceived truths, grown from ideas mirrored to us by society, schools and sometimes our parents can impact us as leaders, team members and colleagues.

Topics Covered:

Developing ideas of self-image
Self-awareness
What is self-image?
Living up to ideals
Shame and vulnerability
Uncertainty
Narcissism
Simon's work with organisations
Human connection
Embracing difference

Honourable Mentions:

Brene Brown, Website
Gestalt, Gestalt Centre Website
Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organisational Ideal by Howard Schwartz, Amazon

Simon Cavicchia:

https://www.simoncavicchia.com/

‘The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching: Complexity, Paradox and Integration’, Amazon

‘Gestalt Counselling In Action’, Amazon

Robert Digings:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/katetrafford/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios – Gemma Chester

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Born This Way - Authentic Success with Kate Trafford

Tue, 14 May 2024 23:00:56 GMT

What is success? Why is authenticity the key to joyful productivity? How do we turn the 20% of the job we love into 80%?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 11

Born This Way – Authentic Success

with Kate Trafford

Kate Trafford has dedicated her career to helping people reach their authentic success and become joyfully productive. Kate draws on her years of working with teams, leaders and organisations to help us navigate our careers, jobs and team roles so that we are getting the most satisfaction out of our jobs by tapping into our authentic selves.

Kate is here today to talk about loving the journey to success as much as the success itself and that sometimes we need to strip back all the ‘talents’ and ‘skills’ we’ve developed along the way and do some self-reflection, and re-niching to remind ourselves who we truly are and what we’re naturally best at.

Topics Covered:

Kate’s own journey of success
Reflection and self-discovery as the place to start
Authenticity and belonging
How to find your authentic self in the role you already do
How do job descriptions play into changing the tasks within a team
The importance of curiosity in a leader
Can this culture change happen bottom up or only top down?
What research exits in this area?
Wellbeing – that it is more than just not getting sick
Goal with Soul

Honourable Mentions:

‘Finding Your Element: How To Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life’ Sir Ken Robinson, Amazon

Kate Trafford:

https://www.katetrafford.com/

‘Get There, Love Here: The Busy Professionals Guide to Authentic Enjoyable Success’, Amazon

Robert Digings:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippajanewhite/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Spiritland Studio Kings Cross - Rich Andrews

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Everything Is Broken - Leadership and Humanity with Philippa White

Tue, 07 May 2024 23:00:10 GMT

How many companies can you name that you love working with? Why is business broken? What human assets are we lacking on our organisations?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 10

Everything is Broken – Leadership and Humanity

with Philippa White

As founder and CEO of TIE Leadership Philippa is here to help us understand why business is broken and what we can do to fix it. Philippa is a global citizen, with links to Canada, Britain, Brazil and many other countries who advocates for everyone, but especially leaders, to leave the comfort of the ‘known’ and open up to other opportunities.

We are more creative and innovative when we are happy, challenged and can learn from our mistakes. Philippa discusses the impact leaders can have on businesses and our world if they became more resilient, more self-aware and more willing to say ‘I don’t know, but I do know who to speak to’. As a keynote speaker, global-trailblazer and now author there is no one better to help us understand how to bring humanity back to business.

Topics Covered:

Why is business broken?
How human relationship create companies and their cultures
Human assets; vulnerability, self-awareness, resilience
This movement is bottom up
Accepting and learning from failure
Do we have the businesses we deserve?
21st century businesses
Philippa’s experiential work with TIE leadership
Philippa’s own inspiration
Bursting our echo-chamber bubble of perspectives and opinions

Philippa White:

https://tieleadership.com

‘Return on Humanity: Leadership Lessons From All Corners of The World’, Amazon

Robert Digings:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevehearsum

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios – Gemma Chester

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Silver Bullet - The Myth of Fixability with Steve Hearsum

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 23:00:45 GMT

When was the last time you experienced true change in your organisation?When was the last time you hired a change consultant?What did it actually change?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 9

Silver Bullet – Myth of Fixability

with Steve Hearsum

Steve has spent decades working as an executive coach and consultant, working with organisations like Roffey Park, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the University of Sussex and has come to understand that there are no silver bullets, no quick fixes.

Steve is here today to highlight that we are all colluding in this myth of fixability, not just leaders and if we were more vulnerable with each other, got comfortable with saying I don’t know and listened we would be able to make meaningful change in our teams and workplace.

Topics Covered:

What is the myth of fixability?
What is a silver bullet?
Culture change
Power of internal enquiry
Organisational therapy
Shame ands anxiety
Colluding in the myth
Ego
Courage to directly challenge and learn
Existential element of fixability

Honourable Mentions:

John Higgins and Mark Cole, Amazon
Dr Graham Curtis, Roffey Park Website
Magic Consultants, BBC Radio 4

Steve Hearsum:

https://www.hearsum.com/

‘No Silver Bullet: Bursting the Bubble of The Organisational Quick Fix’, Amazon

Robert Digings:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/colindsmith1/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Brown Bear Audio – Tom Dalton

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Hear You Me - Listening to Connect with Colin Smith

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:00:28 GMT

How does listening affect a speaker’s quality of thinking?

Why is it not a leadership skill we prioritise?

What is the impact of interruption?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 8

Hear You Me - Listening to Connect

with Colin Smith

Colin Smith is known as ‘The Listener’ and has coached organisations like Biffa, BNP Paribas and the Department of Health to understand and embrace the difference between hearing and listening.

Colin is here to tell us how the art of listening allows teams, leaders and individuals to improve the quality of their thinking and build better relationships.

Everyone can ‘do’ listening but how do we ‘be’ the listener? Press play to find out!

Topics Covered:

Difference between hearing and listening
Difference between doing and being listening
Benefits of listening in this way
Impact listening has on the speaker’s quality of thinking
Listening as a leadership skill
The value of attention over advice
The importance of silence
Interruption
COVID, zoom, technology and listening
The ‘Golden Minute’

Honourable Mentions:

Celeste Headlee, Ted Talk - YouTube
Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, Amazon
Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind by Nancy Kline, Amazon

Colin Smith:

https://dexteritysolutions.co.uk

Robert Digings:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-clancy-8a61086/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Best Behaviour - Effective Collaboration with Jill Clancy

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:00:05 GMT

Why is collaboration such a tricky thing to pull off?

Why aren't team behaviours just good or bad?

How does a team set itself up for sustainable success from the get go?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 7

Best Behaviour – Effective Collaboration

with Jill Clancy

With decades of experience in the workplace, Jill Clancy, has translated her own time as a coach, mentor, volunteer and even engineer student into her work as a change consultant.

With a focus on recognising and understanding our collaborative behaviours, Jill helps teams, organisations and teams of teams work together to decide what behaviours they want to see and how to create those traits in the workplace.

Jill is here today to help us understand why our behaviours are not only up to us but how by acknowledging their impact on others we can change the very culture of our teams.

Topics Covered:

What is collaborative behaviour?
How to create behaviours which are part of the team not just the individuals who come and go
Inappropriate and appropriate behaviours
The two sides of behaviours – the physical and communicating side
The need to define and write a list of desired behaviours as a team
What is ‘ego’ and why does it impact collaborative behaviour
Importance of team agreements
The power of debriefing and the need for regular conversations of reflection
Conflict, collaboration and removing blame
Shifting the focus from ‘culture’ to values and behaviours

Honourable Mentions:

The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth, BBC iPlayer Episode 1

Jill Clancy:

Robert Digings:

https://www.katetrafford.com

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Spiritland Kings Cross Studio – Ed Gill

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Season 2 Mid-Season Trailer: Highly Relational

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 23:00:34 GMT

UPCOMING GUESTS:

Kate Trafford:

Get There, Love Here: The Busy Professional’s Guide To Authentic, Enjoyable Success published by Right Book Press (Amazon)

Colin Smith:

https://dexteritysolutions.co.uk

Jill Clancy:

Simon Cavicchia:

The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching: Complexity, Paradox and Integration (Amazon)

Robert Digings (LinkedIn), Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Spiritland Studio King's Cross - Will Thornton

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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Bonus #1: Mid-Season Reflections - Relational Leadership

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:09:46 GMT

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach, Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Robert Digings:

https://www.craiggoldblatt.com

Lucy Widdowson & Paul Barbour

LinkedIn & LinkedIn

performance-edge.co.uk/

Building Top Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organisational Success (Amazon)

Craig Goldblatt

https://livingonpurpose.global

Gwen Stirling Wilkie

https://omni-working.com/

https://seedsoftransformation.co.uk

Omni-Working: Work Effectively In All Ways, From All Places (Amazon)

Julia Carden

https://carden-consulting.co.uk/about-julia/

Gabriella Braun

workingwell.cc

gabriellabraun.co.uk

All That We Are: Uncovering The Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour At Work (Amazon)

David Kesby

https://organisationalcoachinghub.com

Extra-Dependant Teams: Realising the Power of Similarity (Amazon)

Production Credits

Studio Engineer at Spiritland Studio King's Cross - Will Thornton

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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This Is Me - Self-Awareness and Leadership with Julia Carden

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:57 GMT

What does it mean to be self-aware and how do you do it?

Why does it help us to give and receive real and honest feedback?

What is the connection between self-awareness and getting comfortable with uncertainty?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 6

This Is Me - Self-awareness and Connection

with Julia Carden

As an executive coach with a PhD in self-awareness and a background as a HR consultant, civil servant and Royal Navel Officer, Julia is perfectly placed to highlight why self-awareness allows us to become better leaders, team members and co-workers. Julia explains how self-awareness underpins every other form of self-understanding and how perspective and ego are part of what makes it so difficult to truly achieve.

Topics Covered:

Self-awareness and the inputs and outputs of it
The components of self-awareness
Self-awareness and uncertainty
Leaders and self-awareness
How can self-awareness be of tangible and meaningful value in the workplace?
Self-awareness and collaboration
What are we inhibiting in our teams by making it unacceptable to express anger and frustration?
Time commitment involved in becoming self-aware
Why is it so difficult?
How can you become self-aware?

Honourable Mentions:

Simon Sinex, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Game-Businesses-Achieve-Long-Lasting/dp/0241295599
Johari Window
Viktor Frankl
Brene Brown, https://brenebrown.com/
Helena Clayton, S01, E03
Duval & Wicklund 1972
Gabriella Braun, S02, E02
Daniel Goleman, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Intelligence-Matter-More-Than/dp/0747528306
Jim Collins, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996
Paul Barbour & Lucy Widdowson, S02, E01

Julia Carden:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliacarden/

https://carden-consulting.co.uk/about-julia/

Robert Digings:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidkesby/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Two Tribes - Inter- and Extra-Dependent Teams with David Kesby

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:57 GMT

Do all teams ‘team’ in the same way?

Why is vulnerability the foundation of every great team?

How do communities of practice raise industry standards?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 5

Two Tribes - Inter- and Extra-Dependent Teams

with David Kesby

With a background of working with executive teams and coaches David has dedicated his career to explaining and exploring the 2 types of team we can be part of, the inter-dependent team who work together to achieve a common goal, vs extra-dependent teams who are learning together to develop a common practice. As founder of Organisational Coaching Hub David works with organisations and coaches to team them that there is no one way to team.

Topics Covered:

The two types of 'team' and why it hasn't been noticed before
Defining a ‘team’ and the difference from a group
Meaning of ‘teaming’
Community of practice and extra-dependant teams
Power of supervision groups
Skills, bills, thrills and spills
Leaders need to create space for vulnerability
Acknowledging similarity in teams as well as diversity
Identity as the glue which holds together individuals and teams
How prevalent are extra-dependent teams?

David Kesby:

https://organisationalcoachinghub.com

David’s Book:

Extra-Dependant Teams: Realising the Power of Similarity

Published by: Routledge, 2018

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Extra-Dependent-Teams-Realising-Power-Similarity-ebook/dp/B08LDMBTHC

Robert Digings:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwen-stirling-wilkie-frsa-6171356/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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9 to 5 - Working All Ways, From All Places with Gwen Stirling Wilkie

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:34 GMT

What is the purpose of a meeting, could your last meeting have been an announcement instead?

How can we make the most of our working space?

Why are we so pressured to get through an agenda when working online?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 4

9 to 5 - Working All Ways, From All Places

with Gwen Stirling Wilkie

With a background in organisational transformation Gwen has become an expert on work in the 21st Century. Founder of Seeds of Transformation and creator of the Omni-Working Framework Gwen is helping leaders and teams to grow, connect and work together more effectively, in all ways from all places.

Topics Covered:

What does it mean to work?
Performance data and benefits of hybrid working in organisations
The ‘urgency’ and intensity of online meetings
The omni-working framework - connection, relationships, working practices, outcomes, guiding principles, working spaces and technology
Meetings – does it really need to be a meeting
Asynchronous and synchronous working practices
How to create spaces to bring the best out of each team member
How does a leader enable their team to do the work which connects the team with other areas of the organisation
What was the impact COVID had on work, was it all for the better?
Viewing flexibility as a source of competitive advantage

Honourable Mentions:

Atlassian, https://www.atlassian.com/practices/use-cases/team-anywhere
Atlassian Report, https://www.atlassian.com/blog/distributed-work/distributed-work-report

Gwen Stirling Wilkie:

https://omni-working.com/

https://seedsoftransformation.co.uk

Gwen’s Book

Omni-Working: Work Effectively In All Ways, From All Places

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Omni-Working-all-ways-places/dp/1913483339

Robert Digings

https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-goldblatt/

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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It Only Takes a Minute - Being on Purpose with Craig Goldblatt

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:43 GMT

Why do some people say we need to learn to breathe better?

How can we live richer lives at work as well as at home?

How do you know your true purpose?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 3

It Only Takes a Minute - Being on Purpose

with Craig Goldblatt

Craig is a team coach, international keynote speaker and founder of the charity Giving Africa and strives to make every individual understand how unique and magnificent they are. Craig specialises in purpose and impact and has worked with companies including Microsoft, the World Wildlife Fund and easyJet.

Topics Covered:

Mental wellbeing
How organisations need to change the way they function to allow people to be human beings
The importance of collaboration in organisations and corporates
Importance of breathing
Power of intention
Internal and external worlds
Personal and professional purpose
Daily practices
How COVID caused us to become still, sedentary and overwhelmed
The importance of a minute at work

Honourable Mentions:

Nathalie Montille, https://www.transformationalbreath.co.uk/community/nathalie-montille/
Dalai Lama
Mahatma Ghandi
Nichiren Buddhist
NLP, https://www.nlp.com/what-is-nlp/
Eckhart Tolle
Viktor Frankl - Mans Search for Meaning, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mans-Search-Meaning-classic-Holocaust/dp/1844132390
Martin Luther King
Antony Robbins, https://www.tonyrobbins.com
Zig Ziglar, https://www.ziglar.com
Mark Victor Hansen

Craig Goldblatt

https://www.craiggoldblatt.com

https://livingonpurpose.global

Robert Digings

linkedin.com/in/gabriellabraun

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Slip Of The Tongue - Psychoanalysis At Work with Gabriella Braun

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:47 GMT

Do you always sit in the same seat at every meeting?

Have you ever accidently called your boss Mum?

Why do we make slips of the tongue, and what do they mean?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 2

Slip of the Tongue - Psychoanalysis at Work

with Gabriella Braun

Gabriella has set out to share how psychoanalysis is a tool that everyone can use in their day-to-day lives, especially at work, to help us grow and understand ourselves more deeply. With over 20 years applying psychoanalysis and systems theory to the workplace, her clients range from the British Library and Cambridge University to RADA and UNICEFF.

Topics covered:

Why psychoanalysis is the most sophisticated method for understanding human nature
Transference and counter-transference
Psychoanalysis and the team process
How the unconscious affects teams and the 3 basic assumptions
How we know we have an unconscious
The size of our unconscious (clue - it's big!) and why it changes
Why so many change programmes fail
Not every team or organisation is suited to working with their unconscious process
Our constructive and destructive drives and their importance to individuals, teams and organisations
First steps to working with the unconscious

Honourable mentions:

Alfred Adler
Carl Jung
Roberto Assagioli
Wilfred Bion
Melonie Klein – paranoid-schizoid
Sigmund Freud

Gabriella Braun

workingwell.cc

gabriellabraun.co.uk

Gabriella's book:

All That We Are: Uncovering The Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour At Work

Published by: Piatkus 2023

amazon.co.uk/All-That-Are-Uncovering-Behaviour/dp/0349427305/

Robert Digings

linkedin.com/in/robertdigings

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach

Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.

He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.

In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.

Production credits:

Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!

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Living On The Edge - Team Coaching For Performance with Lucy Widdowson and Paul Barbour

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:15 GMT

Have you ever wondered what team coaching really is?

What’s the difference between coaching, mentoring and therapy, is there one?

What is the crossover between training a coaching practitioner and a great leader?

Highly Relational

Season 2 - Episode 1

Living on The Edge - Team Coaching for Performance

with Lucy Widdowson and Paul Barbour

Lucy and Paul have been working together for the last 4 years as Performance Edge Partners exploring people, purpose and the power of identity and value. As lead tutors at Henley Business School, they offer a unique perspective into the team coaching industry and its future in an ever-changing world.

Topics Covered:

Defining team Coaching
The importance of 1:1 conversations
Creating the Team Edge approach
Why team coaching is a human requirement
The importance of team purpose

Honourable Mentions:

Carl Rodgers
ICF, coachingfederation.org/
EMCC, emccuk.org/
AC, associationforcoaching.com
David Clutterbuck, 2007
13% of teams, Colin Price and Sharon Toye, 2017 – ‘Accelerating Performance: How Organizations Can Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility’
21% of teams, 6teamconditions.com/teams-reimagined/framework
Dr Gabor Mate
Professor Alison Hardingham

Paul Barbour and Lucy Widdowson

linkedin.com/in/pauljbarbour/

linkedin.com/in/lucywiddowson/

performance-edge.co.uk/

Lucy and Paul's Book

Building Top Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organisational Success

Published by: Kogan Page, 2021

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Top-Performing-Teams-Employees/dp/1789666767

Robert Digings