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.linkedin.com/in/stevehearsum

https://www.hearsum.com/

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

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 Brown Bear Audio – Tom Dalton  

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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

https://dexteritysolutions.co.uk

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

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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:

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

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 Spiritland Kings Cross Studio – Ed Gill

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Ella Halsall

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UPCOMING GUESTS:

Kate Trafford:

LinkedIn  

https://www.katetrafford.com

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

Colin Smith:

LinkedIn  

https://dexteritysolutions.co.uk

Jill Clancy:

LinkedIn  

Simon Cavicchia:

LinkedIn  

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

© 2024 Highly Relational Limited

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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.linkedin.com/in/robertdigings/

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

LinkedIn

https://www.craiggoldblatt.com

https://livingonpurpose.global

Gwen Stirling Wilkie

LinkedIn

https://omni-working.com/

https://seedsoftransformation.co.uk

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

Julia Carden

LinkedIn

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

Gabriella Braun

LinkedIn

workingwell.cc

gabriellabraun.co.uk

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

David Kesby

LinkedIn

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

© 2024 Highly Relational Limited

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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/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

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

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

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/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

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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

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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.linkedin.com/in/craig-goldblatt/

https://www.craiggoldblatt.com

https://livingonpurpose.global

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

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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

linkedin.com/in/gabriellabraun

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

© 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!

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