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Why is mental toughness so readily misunderstood and what does it actually mean? How could developing it improve your life and leadership capability? What would you need to work on to achieve mental toughness in the situations that matter to you most?
Highly Relational
Season 3 - Episode 7
When The Going Gets Tough - Mental Toughness
with Penny Mallory
Penny Mallory is a former Champion Rally Driver, TV presenter, author and international keynote speaker on mental toughness. As a coach and consultant who works with both individuals and senior execs, Penny knows that mental toughness isn’t something that can just be taught - but needs to be developed and worked on at all levels. In today's conversation we explore the role mental toughness plays in what we achieve in all areas of our life, along with its valuable psychological counterpart mental sensitivity.
Penny Mallory:
www.linkedin.com/in/pennymallory
www.pennymallory.co.uk
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Nozzle Media - Richard Lannen
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
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If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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Over the next few weeks Season 3 of Highly Relational will continue with more great guests, sharing what they’ve come to understand about what enables people to gel together and get stuff done.
And if you’re new to this podcast, do check out Series One and Two! You’ll find conversations about APPLIED CREATIVITY, SYSTEMS COACHING, COLLABORATIVE EDGE, STRATEGIC NARRATIVE and PSYCHOANALYSIS AT WORK.
So what’s in store for the remaining six episodes of Season 3?
Well, we return next week with guests including:
PENNY MALLORY - champion rally driver and now international keynote speaker on mental toughnessWILL GLENDINNING - executive producer and director, designer, writer and occasional adventurerGARRY SANDERSON - is a coach, consultant and expert in behavioral science - he’ll be joining us to explore what he calls collaborative performanceAnd CLARE CRACKNELL - an enterprise Agile coach and highly experienced Equine Assisted Learning practitionerDo join us then for more fascinating conversation about all things TEAM!
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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In this first bonus episode of Season 3 Robert shares his reflections on the six conversations we’ve had so far - in the hope it’s a welcome opportunity for you to reflect too.
We really do want you to make these ideas your own - to incorporate them into your leadership style or consultancy practice, so they make a difference to the individuals and teams you’re in relationship with.
Robert's two standout themes are, firstly the importance of really getting to know those we work with, so that we create a level of professional INTIMACY, and secondly how our approach to learning can lead to insight and WISDOM that can be applied for everyone’s benefit.
With expert contributions from:
Nick Williams:
S03 E01: The Calling - Inspirational Leadership
Karen Edwards:
S03 E02: Better Together - Delivering Successful Live Events
Anise Bullimore:
S03 E05: Walk of Life - Resilience and the Great Outdoors
Andrew Gibbons:
S03 E04: School's Out - Active Learning
Nia Thomas:
S03 E03: Knowing Me, Knowing You - Raising Awareness of Awareness
Graham Curtis:
S03 E06: Don't Change - Relational Complexity
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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What can complexity theory reveal about organisational life? Why are curiosity and doubt such useful leadership qualities? How might you go about bringing the desired future into the living present?
Highly Relational
Season 3 - Episode 6
Don't Change - Relational Complexity
with Graham Curtis
Graham Curtis is an expert in organisational development and the former Director of Learning & Research at Roffey Park Institute. With a background in senior leadership - both operational and human resources - Graham's doctoral research focused on the role of OD practitioners in culture change. He's passionate about group dynamics and the transformative power of relationships. In today's conversation we explore the power of curiosity and doubt, and discuss why functional collision in organisations is so problematic and what senior leadership teams can do about it.
Graham Curtis:
www.linkedin.com/in/dr-graham-curtis-6b931911
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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How could going for a walk with your team be good for business? What's the best preparation for a difficult conversation or meeting? How can you build resilience one step and one breath at a time?
Highly Relational
Season 3 - Episode 5
Walk of Life - Resilience and the Great Outdoors
with Anise Bullimore
Anise Bullimore is a coach and consultant who specialises in resilience and walking! With a previous background in educational technology and teaching leadership development, Anise’s work now looks at the physical and mental side of coaching - using our environment and breath to have those difficult to face conversations. Anise has come to understand that building resilience and ‘walkshops’ are the key to solving problems, managing stress and finding the space to combat our potentially overwhelming thoughts. In today's conversation we explore why developing resilience together is a terrific way for teams to develop not only the skills to survive, but the ability to thrive.
Anise Bullimore:
www.linkedin.com/in/anise
www.walkcoachlearn.co.uk
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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How do we turn our passive learning into something more active? Why is reflecting on past events not necessarily the best form of reflection? Who could be our learning partner and what value might we get from finding one?
Highly Relational
Season 3 - Episode 4
School's Out - Active Learning
with Andrew Gibbons
Andrew Gibbons is a coach and consultant who is fascinated by LEARNING - in our businesses, in our teams and as individuals. Andrew has over four decades of working in the coaching industry, is a podcast host, and the creator of the Learning Locker Group. He is of course also committed to his own learning having kept a handwritten learning log since 1987 - 1.5 million words and counting! Andrew certainly believes that ‘everyday is a school day’ and that we all have the ability to continuously learn, grow and develop - his work is all about the HOW. In today's conversation we explore why ACTIVE LEARNING and rewarding those who commit to it, should be the new norm - and that this is the true key to creating exceptional leaders.
Andrew Gibbons:
www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-gibbons-fcipd-10707317
www.andrewgibbons.co.uk
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Nozzle Media - Richard Lannen
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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What part does self-awareness play in effective leadership? How can we intentionally develop our capacity for it and what might the benefits be? What responsibility do we really have for another person's experience of us?
Highly Relational
Season 3 - Episode 3
Knowing Me, Knowing You - Raising Awareness of Awareness
with Nia Thomas
Nia Thomas is a charity director, fellow podcaster and author of ‘The Self-Awareness Superhighway’. Her doctoral research at the University of South Wales Business School explored the links between SELF-AWARENESS and LEADER EFFECTIVENESS. Previously Nia has worked in the NHS, local government and civil service in England and Wales. She is passionate - evangelical even - about raising awareness of awareness, because of the myriad benefits it can bring to our lives. In today's conversation we explore the crucial part self-aware leadership plays in creating generative working environments that meet the needs of our workforce, now and in the future.
Nia Thomas:
www.linkedin.com/in/nia-d-thomas
www.knowingselfknowingothers.co.uk
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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What can intact teams learn from the way creative project teams come together? How can you experiment in a working environment where you only get one chance to get it right? What are the leadership challenges of large-scale live event production?
Highly Relational
Season 3 - Episode 2
Better Together - Delivering Successful Live Events
with Karen Edwards
Karen Edwards is a senior events specialist, Level Up mentor and founder of Bright Events - a done-for-you event management company. With 15 years’ experience of event production, Karen now partners with all sorts of clients, stakeholders and suppliers to realise large, complex live events. In today's conversation Karen shares the unique people and leadership challenges of live event production, and reveals how she creates short-term projects teams that are set up for success. There’s much intact teams can learn from diverse creative project teams that are required to get to know each other quickly, work together under considerable stress and get it right first-time once the audience turns up.
Karen Edwards:
www.linkedin.com/in/karen-edwards-events
www.brighteventsltd.com
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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Could leadership be an act of creativity or perhaps even love? Could the highest goal of leadership be to create community? What part might The Muse play in inspiring us, if only we were open to it?
Highly Relational
Season 3 - Episode 1
The Calling - Inspirational Leadership
with Nick Williams
Nick Williams is a coach, speaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author of 19 books, including ‘The Work We Were Born To Do’, ‘How To Be Inspired’ and ‘Powerful Beyond Measure’. He has over 3 decades’ experience in the coaching industry and has worked with clients ranging from Olympians to Golden Globe award winners. In today's conversation Nick argues that leadership isn’t just a skill to be developed - or a role that comes with direct reports - but can be an innate calling, which comes with its own responsibilities and an openness to inspiration, whatever the source - including the possibility of insights coming from ‘The Muse’.
Nick Williams:
www.linkedin.com/in/iamnickwilliams
www.iamnickwilliams.com
Books by Nick include:
‘The Work We Were Born To Do’
‘How To Be Inspired'
'Powerful Beyond Measure'
and 16 others
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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Audio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Meghan Thomas
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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We’re back for a third series of Highly Relational!
We have 12 excellent guests lined up for this series, including:
PENNY MALLORY - former champion rally driver and now international keynote speaker on mental toughnessNICK WILLIAMS - coach, speaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author of 19 books, including ‘The Work We Were Born To Do’WILL GLENDINNING - business owner, entrepreneur, author, creator and adventurerAnd ‘leader effectiveness’ expert - DR NIA THOMAS - Charity Director, fellow podcaster and author of ‘The Self-Awareness Superhighway’Tune in every Wednesday on your favourite podcasting app or YouTube to listen to our guest’s stories, tips and insights on how to create amazing teams at work.
And don’t forget, whether you’re new or fancy another listen we have two previous series available for you to catch up on - just scroll down!
Your host is Robert Digings and the conversation focuses on relationships, teamwork and all the joys and messiness of human collaboration.
Do please subscribe - and consider writing a review - wherever you’re listening or watching!
To join in the online conversation follow Robert on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robertdigings/
Enjoy!
Production credits:
Studio Engineer at Premiere Podcast Studios - Freddie Scragg
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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In this bonus episode Robert reflects on the second half of the series, sharing his personal thoughts about the conversations he's had and the stand out themes of LISTENING and VULNERABILITY. He thanks the guests and listeners, asks for topic suggestions and guest recommendations and provides a Brucey Bonus!
Listen here to find out more.
If you enjoyed Robert's reflections and want to hear more try the mid-season reflection episode (BONUS #1: MID-SEASON REFLECTIONS - RELATIONAL LEADERSHIP) or if a particular clip drew you in listen to the full episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify or watch on YouTube.
Honourable Mentions -
Jill Clancy - S02 E07
Best Behaviour - Effective Collaboration
Philippa White - S02 E10
Everything Is Broken - Leadership and Humanity
Colin Smith - S02 E08
Hear You Me - Listening To Connect
Steve Hearsum - S02 E09
Silver Bullet - The Myth of Fixability
Simon Cavicchia - S02 E12
Shame Shame - Embracing Our Vulnerability
Kate Trafford - S02 E11
Born This Way - Authentic Success
Craig Goldblatt - S02 E03
It Only Takes A Minute - Being on Purpose
Robert Digings -
https://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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits -
Studio Manager at Spiritland Studio Kings Cross - Ed Gill
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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How easy to you find it to say ‘I don’t know’? How does our childhood shame and anxiety shape us as leaders? Why do our beliefs about vulnerabilities impact the way we work together?
Highly Relational Season 2 - Episode 12
Shame Shame – Embracing our Vulnerability with Simon Cavicchia
Simon Cavicchia is an executive coach and consultant whose work focuses on making vulnerability more ordinary and bringing our feelings of shame and anxiety into everyday conversations.
With a background of working with national charities, the media and social care and as a member at Hult Ashbridge Business School Simon is here today to share his journey with shame and anxiety as a consultant and a human himself. Simon discusses how our childhood experiences and perceived truths, grown from ideas mirrored to us by society, schools and sometimes our parents can impact us as leaders, team members and colleagues.
Topics Covered:
Developing ideas of self-imageSelf-awarenessWhat is self-image?Living up to ideals Shame and vulnerability UncertaintyNarcissismSimon's work with organisations Human connection Embracing differenceHonourable Mentions:
Brene Brown, WebsiteGestalt, Gestalt Centre WebsiteNarcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organisational Ideal by Howard Schwartz, AmazonSimon Cavicchia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-cavicchia-1a6a521/
https://www.simoncavicchia.com/
‘The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching: Complexity, Paradox and Integration’, Amazon
‘Gestalt Counselling In Action’, Amazon
Robert Digings:
https://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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios – Gemma Chester
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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What is success? Why is authenticity the key to joyful productivity? How do we turn the 20% of the job we love into 80%?
Highly Relational
Season 2 - Episode 11
Born This Way – Authentic Success
with Kate Trafford
Kate Trafford has dedicated her career to helping people reach their authentic success and become joyfully productive. Kate draws on her years of working with teams, leaders and organisations to help us navigate our careers, jobs and team roles so that we are getting the most satisfaction out of our jobs by tapping into our authentic selves.
Kate is here today to talk about loving the journey to success as much as the success itself and that sometimes we need to strip back all the ‘talents’ and ‘skills’ we’ve developed along the way and do some self-reflection, and re-niching to remind ourselves who we truly are and what we’re naturally best at.
Topics Covered:
Kate’s own journey of success Reflection and self-discovery as the place to start Authenticity and belongingHow to find your authentic self in the role you already do How do job descriptions play into changing the tasks within a teamThe importance of curiosity in a leaderCan this culture change happen bottom up or only top down?What research exits in this area?Wellbeing – that it is more than just not getting sickGoal with SoulHonourable Mentions:
‘Finding Your Element: How To Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life’ Sir Ken Robinson, AmazonKate Trafford:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katetrafford/
https://www.katetrafford.com/
‘Get There, Love Here: The Busy Professionals Guide to Authentic Enjoyable Success’, Amazon
Robert Digings:
https://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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Spiritland Studio Kings Cross - Rich Andrews
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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How many companies can you name that you love working with? Why is business broken? What human assets are we lacking on our organisations?
Highly Relational
Season 2 - Episode 10
Everything is Broken – Leadership and Humanity
with Philippa White
As founder and CEO of TIE Leadership Philippa is here to help us understand why business is broken and what we can do to fix it. Philippa is a global citizen, with links to Canada, Britain, Brazil and many other countries who advocates for everyone, but especially leaders, to leave the comfort of the ‘known’ and open up to other opportunities.
We are more creative and innovative when we are happy, challenged and can learn from our mistakes. Philippa discusses the impact leaders can have on businesses and our world if they became more resilient, more self-aware and more willing to say ‘I don’t know, but I do know who to speak to’. As a keynote speaker, global-trailblazer and now author there is no one better to help us understand how to bring humanity back to business.
Topics Covered:
Why is business broken?How human relationship create companies and their culturesHuman assets; vulnerability, self-awareness, resilienceThis movement is bottom upAccepting and learning from failureDo we have the businesses we deserve?21st century businesses Philippa’s experiential work with TIE leadershipPhilippa’s own inspiration Bursting our echo-chamber bubble of perspectives and opinionsPhilippa White:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippajanewhite/
https://tieleadership.com
‘Return on Humanity: Leadership Lessons From All Corners of The World’, Amazon
Robert Digings:
https://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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios – Gemma Chester
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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When was the last time you experienced true change in your organisation?When was the last time you hired a change consultant?What did it actually change?
Highly Relational
Season 2 - Episode 9
Silver Bullet – Myth of Fixability
with Steve Hearsum
Steve has spent decades working as an executive coach and consultant, working with organisations like Roffey Park, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the University of Sussex and has come to understand that there are no silver bullets, no quick fixes.
Steve is here today to highlight that we are all colluding in this myth of fixability, not just leaders and if we were more vulnerable with each other, got comfortable with saying I don’t know and listened we would be able to make meaningful change in our teams and workplace.
Topics Covered:
What is the myth of fixability?What is a silver bullet? Culture changePower of internal enquiryOrganisational therapy Shame ands anxietyColluding in the mythEgoCourage to directly challenge and learnExistential element of fixabilityHonourable Mentions:
John Higgins and Mark Cole, AmazonDr Graham Curtis, Roffey Park WebsiteMagic Consultants, BBC Radio 4Steve Hearsum:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevehearsum
https://www.hearsum.com/
‘No Silver Bullet: Bursting the Bubble of The Organisational Quick Fix’, Amazon
Robert Digings:
https://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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Brown Bear Audio – Tom Dalton
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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How does listening affect a speaker’s quality of thinking?
Why is it not a leadership skill we prioritise?
What is the impact of interruption?
Highly Relational
Season 2 - Episode 8
Hear You Me - Listening to Connect
with Colin Smith
Colin Smith is known as ‘The Listener’ and has coached organisations like Biffa, BNP Paribas and the Department of Health to understand and embrace the difference between hearing and listening.
Colin is here to tell us how the art of listening allows teams, leaders and individuals to improve the quality of their thinking and build better relationships.
Everyone can ‘do’ listening but how do we ‘be’ the listener? Press play to find out!
Topics Covered:
Difference between hearing and listening Difference between doing and being listening Benefits of listening in this wayImpact listening has on the speaker’s quality of thinking Listening as a leadership skill The value of attention over advice The importance of silenceInterruptionCOVID, zoom, technology and listening The ‘Golden Minute’Honourable Mentions:
Celeste Headlee, Ted Talk - YouTubeTattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, AmazonTime to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind by Nancy Kline, AmazonColin Smith:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/colindsmith1/
https://dexteritysolutions.co.uk
Robert Digings:
https://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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
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Why is collaboration such a tricky thing to pull off?
Why aren't team behaviours just good or bad?
How does a team set itself up for sustainable success from the get go?
Highly Relational
Season 2 - Episode 7
Best Behaviour – Effective Collaboration
with Jill Clancy
With decades of experience in the workplace, Jill Clancy, has translated her own time as a coach, mentor, volunteer and even engineer student into her work as a change consultant.
With a focus on recognising and understanding our collaborative behaviours, Jill helps teams, organisations and teams of teams work together to decide what behaviours they want to see and how to create those traits in the workplace.
Jill is here today to help us understand why our behaviours are not only up to us but how by acknowledging their impact on others we can change the very culture of our teams.
Topics Covered:
What is collaborative behaviour? How to create behaviours which are part of the team not just the individuals who come and goInappropriate and appropriate behavioursThe two sides of behaviours – the physical and communicating side The need to define and write a list of desired behaviours as a team What is ‘ego’ and why does it impact collaborative behaviourImportance of team agreementsThe power of debriefing and the need for regular conversations of reflection Conflict, collaboration and removing blame Shifting the focus from ‘culture’ to values and behavioursHonourable Mentions:
The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth, BBC iPlayer Episode 1Jill Clancy:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-clancy-8a61086/
Robert Digings:
https://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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Spiritland Kings Cross Studio – Ed Gill
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
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UPCOMING GUESTS:
Kate Trafford:
LinkedIn
https://www.katetrafford.com
Get There, Love Here: The Busy Professional’s Guide To Authentic, Enjoyable Success published by Right Book Press (Amazon)
Colin Smith:
LinkedIn
https://dexteritysolutions.co.uk
Jill Clancy:
LinkedIn
Simon Cavicchia:
LinkedIn
The Theory and Practice of Relational Coaching: Complexity, Paradox and Integration (Amazon)
Robert Digings (LinkedIn), 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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Engineer at Spiritland Studio King's Cross - Will Thornton
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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.
Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Robert Digings:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertdigings/
Lucy Widdowson & Paul Barbour
LinkedIn & LinkedIn
performance-edge.co.uk/
Building Top Performing Teams: A Practical Guide to Team Coaching to Improve Collaboration and Drive Organisational Success (Amazon)
Craig Goldblatt
LinkedIn
https://www.craiggoldblatt.com
https://livingonpurpose.global
Gwen Stirling Wilkie
LinkedIn
https://omni-working.com/
https://seedsoftransformation.co.uk
Omni-Working: Work Effectively In All Ways, From All Places (Amazon)
Julia Carden
LinkedIn
https://carden-consulting.co.uk/about-julia/
Gabriella Braun
LinkedIn
workingwell.cc
gabriellabraun.co.uk
All That We Are: Uncovering The Hidden Truths Behind Our Behaviour At Work (Amazon)
David Kesby
LinkedIn
https://organisationalcoachinghub.com
Extra-Dependant Teams: Realising the Power of Similarity (Amazon)
Production Credits
Studio Engineer at Spiritland Studio King's Cross - Will Thornton
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
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What does it mean to be self-aware and how do you do it?
Why does it help us to give and receive real and honest feedback?
What is the connection between self-awareness and getting comfortable with uncertainty?
Highly Relational
Season 2 - Episode 6
This Is Me - Self-awareness and Connection
with Julia Carden
As an executive coach with a PhD in self-awareness and a background as a HR consultant, civil servant and Royal Navel Officer, Julia is perfectly placed to highlight why self-awareness allows us to become better leaders, team members and co-workers. Julia explains how self-awareness underpins every other form of self-understanding and how perspective and ego are part of what makes it so difficult to truly achieve.
Topics Covered:
Self-awareness and the inputs and outputs of itThe components of self-awarenessSelf-awareness and uncertaintyLeaders and self-awarenessHow can self-awareness be of tangible and meaningful value in the workplace?Self-awareness and collaborationWhat are we inhibiting in our teams by making it unacceptable to express anger and frustration?Time commitment involved in becoming self-awareWhy is it so difficult?How can you become self-aware?Honourable Mentions:
Simon Sinex, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Game-Businesses-Achieve-Long-Lasting/dp/0241295599Johari Window Viktor FranklBrene Brown, https://brenebrown.com/Helena Clayton, S01, E03Duval & Wicklund 1972Gabriella Braun, S02, E02Daniel Goleman, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Intelligence-Matter-More-Than/dp/0747528306Jim Collins, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996Paul Barbour & Lucy Widdowson, S02, E01Julia Carden:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliacarden/
https://carden-consulting.co.uk/about-julia/
Robert Digings:
https://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 new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Voxpod Studios - Alex Bennett
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
© 2024 Highly Relational Limited
Find Highly Relational on all your favourite podcast apps or YouTube
If you are enjoying the listen, hit subscribe and leave us a review!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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