Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst on How To Develop Your Own Work Style

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life

Erik Fisher

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Careers, Education

4.5 • 875 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This week, I'm excited to revisit this conversation with Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst discussing their book, Workstyle: A revolution for well being, productivity and society. They coined the term nearly a decade ago during an inspired conversation at a pub. Little did they know that that conversation would lead them to co-found the multi-million pound social enterprise Hoxby to test and prove the concept of workstyle. Today Hoxby has helped thousands of workstylers around the world to set, project and respect their own workstyles. They have set up their own longitudinal research study into the link between autonomy, productivity and wellbeing and have delivered projects for some of the biggest businesses in the world including Unilever, Amazon, AIA, and Merck. Forbes.com have described them as 'creating the freelance revolution 3.0' and they have been featured in the FT, Times, Telegraph, Stylist, Marie Claire, Metro and The Guardian, among others. I really enjoyed this book and believe that it will start to help countless people and businesses find relief from their work conditioning, inspire them to create a workstyle for themselves, and enable them to take part in the most significant change to working practices since 1817. By giving you the complete freedom to identify and pursue a way of working which fits around the unique nature of your lifestyle, this book can teach us how to be well, work better and do great things on our own time. Connect with Lizzie and Alex Website Book Lizzie’s Instagram Alex’s Instagram Connect with Erik: Facebook LinkedIn Instagram Threads This Podcast is Powered By: Descript Descript 101 Castmagic Ecamm Podpage Rodecaster Pro Top Productivity Books List Make sure to support the show by checking out the sponsors! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.4	Hello and welcome back to Beyond the to-do list a podcast about productivity. This week we're revisiting an important conversation I had with Lizzie Penny and Alex Hurst. They are the authors of the book Work Style,
1:15.8	a Revolution for Well Being, Productivity, and Society. And if you're like me, you may have used
1:21.9	the word work style without fully grasping the broader meaning or the concept,
1:26.5	but they are the ones that actually coined this term.
1:29.0	And in this conversation, we're going to talk all about it.
1:31.2	We're going to talk about conventional 9 to 5 work, the importance of autonomy in the
1:35.8	digital age, and many other insights gained from their extensive research and real world
1:40.6	applications through Hoxby, a community model of freelancers, as well as their personal
1:45.3	experiences and practical advice on how to start discovering your own work style, the tools you need,
1:50.9	the resources that are available for this journey.
1:53.6	So if you're looking to transform your own work life balance
1:56.8	or innovate in your organization,
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