Highly Relational Team: Launch Week Roundtable - Teams and How They Come to Life - Episode #4/6

Hosted by Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie with guests Lucy Widdowson, Alastair Kidd & Robert Digings

As part of launch week for the Highly Relational Team, this special roundtable brings together four experienced practitioners to explore a central question: What really brings teams to life?

Hosted by Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie, and joined by Lucy Widdowson, Alastair Kidd, and Robert Digings, this lively, insightful conversation examines how teams thrive in an unpredictable world - and why the relational fabric between people matters as much as the work itself.

In this episode, our guests explore:

• Why teams need both individual development and collective development

• How teams can become their own mirror - building the courage to look at themselves

• Why 'soft skills' are now the hardest and most essential skills in team life

• What collaboration really means - and why most teams confuse it with coordination

• The limits of hub-and-spoke leadership, and the power of collective responsibility

• How future team life may include AI members - and what won’t change at all: our humanity

As the discussion closes, each guest shares their advice for teams wanting to start, reset or reinvigorate their team development journey.

For more information about the Highly Relational Team visit highlyrelational.com

🎙️ Coming soon:

A look ahead to the rest of Season 4 and our plans for 2026, and an Ask Me Anything episode where Robert answers listener questions.

Guest Host - Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie:

www.linkedin.com/in/dr-gwen-stirling-wilkie-🌐-edgewalker-6171356

www.seedsoftransformation.co.uk 

Organisational Consultant, Edgewalker and Author of Omni-Working: Work effectively in all ways, from all places

Lucy Widdowson:

www.linkedin.com/in/lucywiddowson

www.performance-edge.co.uk

Accredited Executive and Team Coach and Consultant. Founder of Performance Edge

Alastair Kidd:

www.inkedin.com/in/alastairkidd

www.alastairkidd.com 

Systemic leadership sherpa, coach, and facilitator. Generative leadership and teaming

Robert Digings:

www.linkedin.com/in/robertdigings

www.highlyrelational.com

Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach. Creator of the Highly Relational Team

Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Podshop Studios - Tom Wright

Post Production - Shaun Lawson

Series Producer - Julie Allen

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