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

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/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

© 2024 Highly Relational Limited

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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

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