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Highly Relational
Robert Digings
89 episodes
1 day ago

FEBRUARY '24 UPDATE

We’re back!

Tune in every Wednesday to hear what stories, tips and insights our guests have to help you create amazing teams at work.



JANUARY '24 UPDATE

Season Two will be launching next month - 12 brilliant guests sharing stories and insights to help you create terrific teams where you work.



DECEMBER '23 UPDATE

Season Two is now in production and we will be launching in the New Year. Yay!



NOVEMBER '23 UPDATE

We're sad to say that Season Two of Highly Relational has had to be delayed due to Robert's health. He is keen to get back in the studio as soon as possible.




Do you want to unlock the secrets of successful teamwork and bring your people together in a way that realises their full potential?

Highly Relational is a brand new podcast for business leaders, HR professionals, coaches, consultants and trainers, looking to create, lead and develop great teams at work.

Join executive coach and team development consultant Robert Digings each week, as he speaks to some of the most accomplished CEOs, executives, coaches, authors and all-round brilliant minds in the business world.

Highly Relational is a podcast teeming with actionable advice and no-nonsense tips that will inspire you to connect and collaborate more deeply.


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

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FEBRUARY '24 UPDATE

We’re back!

Tune in every Wednesday to hear what stories, tips and insights our guests have to help you create amazing teams at work.



JANUARY '24 UPDATE

Season Two will be launching next month - 12 brilliant guests sharing stories and insights to help you create terrific teams where you work.



DECEMBER '23 UPDATE

Season Two is now in production and we will be launching in the New Year. Yay!



NOVEMBER '23 UPDATE

We're sad to say that Season Two of Highly Relational has had to be delayed due to Robert's health. He is keen to get back in the studio as soon as possible.




Do you want to unlock the secrets of successful teamwork and bring your people together in a way that realises their full potential?

Highly Relational is a brand new podcast for business leaders, HR professionals, coaches, consultants and trainers, looking to create, lead and develop great teams at work.

Join executive coach and team development consultant Robert Digings each week, as he speaks to some of the most accomplished CEOs, executives, coaches, authors and all-round brilliant minds in the business world.

Highly Relational is a podcast teeming with actionable advice and no-nonsense tips that will inspire you to connect and collaborate more deeply.


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

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Episodes (20/89)
Highly Relational
Highly Relational Team - Ask Me Anything #6/6

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week - Ask Me Anything - Episode #6/6

With Robert Digings and series producer Julie Allen asking the questions


To close out the launch of the Highly Relational Team, we’re doing something completely new: our first ever Ask Me Anything.


After the biggest month we’ve ever had on the podcast -

25 Two Minute Teamwork episodes, a three-part mini-series with Anni Townend, and a roundtable hosted by Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie - today we open the floor to you.


In this special episode, series producer Julie Allen steps out from behind the scenes to put your questions to Robert Digings, covering everything from the origins of the model to the realities of team life, conflict, leadership, and relational development.


In this episode, Robert explores:

• His greatest joy working with leaders and teams

• How the Highly Relational Team model began - and why he finally decided to share it

• Why the model has 25 elements and how to find an easy way in

• Using the model with teams of different sizes - from pairs to global groups

• The role of leaders in shaping (and sometimes complicating) team dynamics

• How to turn personality differences into real strengths

• How to think about conflict in a team - and why it’s co-created

• Why presence matters more than anything

• Which element he believes is most essential

• And why the model is framed with the words: “This is not the truth”


Along the way, Robert speaks to the complexity of human relationships, the importance of conscious development, and the delight — and difficulty — of helping teams grow.


Did we get to your question?

We couldn’t answer all of them in the time we had, but every question shaped the conversation.

And yes - we’ll definitely do another AMA next year.


Explore the model

Visit highlyrelational.com to see the interactive landing page with:

• All 25 Two Minute Teamwork videos

• Conversations explaining the Personal Process, Team Process and full model

• Free resources to help you bring the approach to life


What’s next?

Season 4 continues next week.

And throughout December we’ll be joined by three brilliant guests - each with something important to say about teams, leadership and what really drives their success.

If you’re enjoying the series, please share it with a colleague or leave a rating or review - it makes a huge difference.


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


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.


Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Podshop Studios - Tom Wright

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.

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1 day ago
43 minutes 37 seconds

Highly Relational
Highly Relational Team - What's Next?! #5/6

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week - What's Next?! - Episode #5/6

With Robert Digings


As we bring launch week for the Highly Relational Team to a close, Robert takes a moment to look back - and look ahead. After three weeks of opening the doors to the full model, today’s episode gathers up what’s happened, offers gratitude, and sets the stage for what’s coming next.


In this episode, Robert reflects on:

• The mini-series with Anni Townend exploring the Personal Process, Team Process and complete model

• The roundtable with Dr Gwen Stirling Wilkie, Lucy Widdowson and Alastair Kidd

• The release of all 25 Two Minute Teamwork episodes - now available on the interactive landing page

• What it means to put people before productivity, team before task, and relationships before results


And he shares what’s coming next for the Highly Relational community:


Your chance to take part - Ask Me Anything

Next week we’re doing something new: an AMA episode.

Robert invites your questions about anything to do with teams, relationships and the Highly Relational Team - from any of the 25 elements to the meaning of Adventure.


Send your question to podcast@highlyrelational.com


Resources now available

At highlyrelational.com, you’ll find:

• Videos introducing every element

• Short conversations explaining how the elements fit together

• Reflections on the philosophy behind the model


Looking ahead to next year

Robert previews what’s coming in 2026:

• A full new website with deeper resources

• A beta version of the team assessment

• A professional training programme for practitioners who want to bring the Highly Relational approach into their own work


Season 4 continues…

There are still three episodes to come this season, featuring:

• Caroline Clark - on analog astronaut missions, extreme environments and relational resilience

• John Leary-Joyce - on Gestalt, embodiment and showing up in the moment

• Angie Wakeman - on the wisdom and freedom of the Clown archetype


Robert closes with thanks - for listening, for being part of this community, and for exploring a different way of thinking about teams.


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


🎙️ Coming soon:

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.


Production credits:

Studio Engineer at Podshop Studios - Tom Wright

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.

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6 days ago
7 minutes 43 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Adventure #25/25

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 #25: ADVENTURE


  • Adventure is the culmination of the Highly Relational Team - the moment when everything integrates
  • It's aliveness in action. The work stretches you, but doesn’t split you. People are learning, growing, daring, and still deeply connected
  • It’s when a team steps into the unknown together - guided by purpose, anchored by trust, fuelled by curiosity


🎙️ 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.

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6 days ago
3 minutes 1 second

Highly Relational
Highly Relational Team - Teams and How They Come to Life #4/6

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


© 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.

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1 week ago
1 hour 1 minute 5 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Ambition #24/25

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 #24: AMBITION


  • Ambition isn’t just about wanting more - it’s about wanting meaningfully. It’s the energy that turns purpose into pursuit
  • It's born where contribution and commitment meet, fuelled by courage - drive with integrity
  • It challenges comfort, sets direction, and inspires effort - seeking success with people, not over them


🎙️ 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.

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1 week ago
2 minutes 47 seconds

Highly Relational
Highly Relational Team - Complete Model #3/6

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


© 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.

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1 week ago
26 minutes 43 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Story #23/25

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 #23: STORY


  • Story is how we make sense of experience. It’s where facts meet feeling, where data gains direction
  • It arises when congruency and connection meet through creativity - the bridge between insight and inspiration
  • Story defines how you remember success, interpret failure, and imagine the future


🎙️ 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.

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1 week ago
2 minutes 59 seconds

Highly Relational
Highly Relational Team - Team Process #2/6

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


© 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.

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1 week ago
31 minutes 14 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Unity #22/25

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 #22: UNITY


  • Unity is when a team stops being a collection of individuals and starts becoming a community
  • It's the triple overlap of belonging, connection, and commitment - the felt sense of we
  • It’s alignment without sameness - diversity held together by shared identity and ambition


🎙️ 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.

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1 week ago
2 minutes 55 seconds

Highly Relational
Highly Relational Team - Personal Process #1/6

Highly Relational Team: Launch Week Mini-Series - Episode #1/6

Hosted by Anni Townend with guest Robert Digings


In this first episode of our special mini-series, Highly Relational Team, we begin with the first half of the model: the Personal Process - how each individual shows up in the team - as a human, colleague and leader.


Guest host Anni Townend interviews Robert Digings about the three core elements at the heart of the Personal Process: Awareness, Congruency and Contribution - exploring how these practices shape presence, deepen relationship and transform the quality of leadership.


In this conversation, Robert shares:


• The foundational value of Awareness to all personal and leadership development

• How the inner work of Congruency supports insight into ourselves and others

• Why Contribution is more about offering yourself than offering expertise

• That being is more important than doing in all developmental work

• How the present moment is full of possibility, awe and mystery


You’ll also hear how the double overlaps - Insight (Awareness + Congruency) and Immediacy (Awareness + Contribution) — support the development of Presence, the outcome of the Personal Process and the basis of relational leadership.


To close, Robert offers a simple practice to begin strengthening your own presence this week: Give a third of your attention back to yourself - to breath, body and inner experience.


In the next episode we move from self to system, exploring the Team Process and how Belonging, Connection and Commitment weave the fabric of Unity.


🎙️ 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


© 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.

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1 week ago
31 minutes 17 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Presence #21/25

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 #21: PRESENCE


  • Presence is the heart of relational leadership
  • It’s the integration of awareness, congruency, and contribution - the point where who you are, what you feel, and what you do, align
  • When you’re present, others feel it. People sense you’re there and that they’re seen


🎙️ 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.

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1 week ago
2 minutes 57 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Warrior #20/25

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 #20: WARRIOR


  • The Warrior archetype embodies courage, commitment, and purposeful action
  • It’s not about aggression - it’s about service and integrity
  • It’s what helps a team move from intention to impact


🎙️ 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.

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1 week ago
2 minutes 32 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Magician #19/25

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 #19: MAGICIAN


  • The Magician archetype brings creativity, curiosity, and perspective
  • It’s the part of us that sees patterns others miss and turns complexity into possibility
  • It reframes problems and helps people imagine new futures


🎙️ 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.

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1 week ago
2 minutes 44 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Lover #18/25

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 #18: LOVER


  • The Lover archetype brings warmth, empathy, and connection
  • It’s the energy that turns colleagues into companions and teams into communities
  • It’s about caring without caretaking - offering empathy without losing boundaries


🎙️ 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.

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2 weeks ago
2 minutes 41 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Sovereign #17/25

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 #17: SOVEREIGN


  • The Sovereign archetype embodies calm authority. It’s leadership rooted not in power, but in presence
  • It’s the part of us that holds direction and steadiness when others look for guidance
  • Sovereign energy shows up when you lead with clarity, but without ego


🎙️ 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.

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2 weeks ago
2 minutes 40 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Courage #16/25

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 #16: COURAGE


  • Courage is action in the presence of fear
  • It’s not the absence of anxiety - it’s the willingness to move forward anyway
  • It’s speaking the difficult truth, giving the tough feedback, making the call that matters


🎙️ 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.

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2 weeks ago
2 minutes 37 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Creativity #15/25

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 #15: CREATIVITY


  • Creativity, in teams, is born from connection
  • It emerges when people feel confident enough to explore, and brave enough to be wrong
  • It’s easy to treat creativity as individual brilliance, but in reality it’s a relational process


🎙️ 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.

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2 weeks ago
2 minutes 50 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Kinship #14/25

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 #14: KINSHIP


  • Kinship is the sense of mutual care and belonging that develops through shared experience and respect
  • It isn’t friendship, though it can include it
  • It’s the recognition that we’re in this together - that my success and yours are linked


🎙️ 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.

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2 weeks ago
2 minutes 44 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Vulnerability #13/25

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 #13: VULNERABILITY


  • Vulnerability is the doorway to real connection - it’s the moment you stop performing and start relating
  • When one person risks being honest, it gives everyone else permission to do the same
  • It isn’t confession or oversharing; it’s appropriate openness


🎙️ 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.

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2 weeks ago
2 minutes 43 seconds

Highly Relational
Two Minute Teamwork - Reflexivity #12/25

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 #12: REFLEXIVITY


  • The ability to momentarily step back and examine your own role in what’s unfolding in front of you
  • It’s awareness turned inward, but whilst in motion
  • Reflexivity lets you see yourself as both participant and observer


🎙️ 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.

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2 weeks ago
2 minutes 45 seconds

Highly Relational

FEBRUARY '24 UPDATE

We’re back!

Tune in every Wednesday to hear what stories, tips and insights our guests have to help you create amazing teams at work.



JANUARY '24 UPDATE

Season Two will be launching next month - 12 brilliant guests sharing stories and insights to help you create terrific teams where you work.



DECEMBER '23 UPDATE

Season Two is now in production and we will be launching in the New Year. Yay!



NOVEMBER '23 UPDATE

We're sad to say that Season Two of Highly Relational has had to be delayed due to Robert's health. He is keen to get back in the studio as soon as possible.




Do you want to unlock the secrets of successful teamwork and bring your people together in a way that realises their full potential?

Highly Relational is a brand new podcast for business leaders, HR professionals, coaches, consultants and trainers, looking to create, lead and develop great teams at work.

Join executive coach and team development consultant Robert Digings each week, as he speaks to some of the most accomplished CEOs, executives, coaches, authors and all-round brilliant minds in the business world.

Highly Relational is a podcast teeming with actionable advice and no-nonsense tips that will inspire you to connect and collaborate more deeply.


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