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.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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