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:

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/robertdigings

www.highlyrelational.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 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

© 2025 Highly Relational Limited

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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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:

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/robertdigings

www.highlyrelational.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 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

© 2025 Highly Relational Limited

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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

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:

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/robertdigings

www.highlyrelational.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 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

© 2025 Highly Relational Limited

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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

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:

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/robertdigings

www.highlyrelational.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 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

© 2025 Highly Relational Limited

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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

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:

www.linkedin.com/in/robertdigings

www.highlyrelational.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 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

© 2025 Highly Relational Limited

Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube

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

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:

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 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

© 2025 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.

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:

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 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

© 2025 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.

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:

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 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

© 2025 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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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:

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 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

© 2025 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.

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:

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https://qube.cc/pets/digitaldestiny

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Eddie Obeng:

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

www.eddieobeng.com

Robert Digings:

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 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

© 2025 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.