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:
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
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
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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