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

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:

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 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

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