The Workstyle Revolution

The Power Of Collective Intelligence 🧠 How do you: 💡 Conceive more ideas? 🚀 Generate breakthrough solutions far beyond the capacity of any individual or sub-group? 🎨 Respond creatively to briefs, but also encourage your teams to push boundaries and step outside their comfort zones? The answer isn't only by gathering the best minds with experience or skills. It's about blending diverse perspectives and backgrounds to create something extraordinary. As Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst ✊🏻 describe in their book - Workstyle: A Revolution for Wellbeing, Productivity, and Society (John Murray Press, 2022): “This is not just about having the best minds on a problem in terms of experience or skills - it’s about the combination of their diverse knowledge and experiences that can be brought together in a positive respectful way where each has equal confidence and opportunity to challenge, in pursuit of a shared goal.” And this way of working has been tried and tested over the last 10 years at Hoxby. Also co-founded by Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst, Hoxby is the original prototype set up to test workstyle working. Hoxby's clients consistently feedback that it is this collaborative spirit that keeps them coming back year after year. Want to learn more about how Workstyle can help your organisation? Details of our Workstyle training can be found here: https://lnkd.in/d48mS5pF #CollectiveIntelligence #CreativeCollaboration #DiverseTeams #InnovationMindset #FutureOfWork #Workstyle

We are delighted to announce that Workstyle Revolution is now a Community Interest Company (CIC) limited by guarantee! 📣 This means we are very similar to a charity and exist to benefit the community. Becoming a CIC shows our commitment to a cause. That we have a strong social purpose. As a not-for-profit, it lets us access funds from private donors, grants, and community development finance. This will help us bring our vision to life for the communities we serve. Together we will create a happier, more fulfilled society through a world of work without bias. 🤝 Check out our manifesto (watch time 1 minute 30): https://lnkd.in/eQZzyd5 #WorkstyleRevolution #CIC #CommunityInterestCompany #SocialEnterprise #NotForProfit #SocialImpact #WorkWithoutBias #InclusiveWorkplace #SocialPurpose

We are thrilled to confirm that the Workstyle Revolution has won its first grant from UnLtd 🎉 UnLtd is the UK's foundation for social entrepreneurs. UnLtd is working hard with public and private partners to deliver positive social impact. They tap into social entrepreneurs' potential to solve society's biggest challenges. Workstyle Revolution is a not-for-profit organisation so the award's funding and support will help us a lot. We will use them to create training materials for our 21 "Workstyle Pioneers" initiative. Together, we will create a happier, more fulfilled society through a world of work without bias. #UnLtdAwardWinner #WorkstylePioneers  #WorkWithoutBias #WorkstyleRevolution

Beautiful reminder of the importance of looking after yourself and useful things to remember if you're feeling overwhelmed, thank you Mariam Osman

But how can you possibly *trust* these people you’ve never met? 🤨 This was a question asked of Hoxby co-founder Lizzie Penny by a man sitting next to her at a conference nearly 10 years ago. Also co-founded by Alex Hirst ✊🏻, Hoxby implements #workstyle practices throughout its business. It serves as both a case study and a service provider for organisations looking to adopt Workstyle principles. The answer is given in this quote from their book: “Trust is the opposite of presenteeism. It is based on empowerment, and we have found it creates greater accountability and co-operation. Trust is the cornerstone of any relationship, whether it be with your family, friends, colleagues, pets-you name it. The quality of our relationships, the success of our teams, and ultimately our productivity can all be distilled down to the extent to which we trust one another.” 🤝 'Workstyle: A Revolution for Wellbeing, Productivity, and Society' (John Murray Press, 2022): This trust translates into productivity through: 💪 Empowerment- Feeling free to deliver work your way ✅ Accountability- Doing what you say you will 🤝 Co-operation- Working together in new ways And the evidence supports this too. Compared with people at low-trust companies, people at high-trust companies report 50 per cent higher productivity, as well as lots of other amazing statistics around burnout and engagement! Would you like to discuss how #Workstyle could increase productivity at your organisation? We're here and eager to help! 🚀 Email hello@workstylerevolution.com or send us a DM

Employer Partnership Announcement!! 📣 Since launching our ‘Workstyle Pioneers’ initiative we have been in conversation with a number of employers. Our aim is to support 21 workstyle trials for members of the excluded workforce. And so, we're delighted to confirm one of those partners as SWAP Internal Audit Services! SWAP Internal Audit Services is the biggest (and did we mention award-winning) local government, not-for-profit, internal audit partnership in England and Wales. This means they are an internal audit partnership dedicated to improving the efficiency and productivity of public sector organisations helping them to reach their full potential and manage their risk. As an inaugural partner, the team at Swap Internal Audit Services have already been amazing allies. They are helping us shape our approach to the project and we are so excited to be working with them. If you are an employer already individualising work (or is keen to learn how) - visit ‘The 21’ link to find out more and register your interest: https://lnkd.in/eXgeN4vE #WorkstylePioneers #The21Project #EmployerPartnership #WorkstyleRevolution #CloseTheGaps #WorkWithoutBias

This #WorldMentalHealthDay 🌍 we share this incredibly important and useful post from our charity partner Mind for anyone who needs to chat today, or any other day. #nomindleftbehind

This time last week, our Workstyle Revolution co-founders Alex Hirst ✊🏻 and Lizzie Penny were on their way to Qingdao, China to collect an award at the Zero DX Awards Ceremony on behalf of their professional services agency Hoxby Hoxby implements #workstyle practices throughout its business, serving as both a case study and a service provider for organisations looking to adopt workstyle principles. Having been selected as one of the 50 most progressive organisations in the world, we are proud to share that Hoxby have also won the Benchmark Innovators Zero Distance Award, recognising our innovative approach to organisational design. An awesome achievement to further reinforce the benefits of workstyle working! #WorkstyleRevolution #AutonomousWorking #RanDanHeYi

Charity partnership announcement! 📣 We’re pleased to confirm that we have recently agreed a new partnership with Autistica Autistica are the UK’s leading autism research and campaigning charity. Their mission is to help all autistic people to live happier, healthier, longer lives. And one of their goals is particularly aligned to our Workstyle mission: “The employment rate for autistic people will double by 2030”. There are 450,000 autistic people of working age in the UK. 77% of autistic adults want to work, but only 26% are in any kind of employment. This means that the working gap for this group is 51%.* We look forward to working with Autistica and advocating for neurodiverse individuals. *Source: Workstyle: A Revolution for Wellbeing, Productivity, and Society, John Murray Press, 2022. #NewPartnership #CharityPartnership #WorkWithoutBias #CloseTheGaps #InclusiveEmployment #WorkstyleRevolution

Employer Partnership Announcement!! 📣 Since launching our ‘The 21’ initiative we have been in conversation with a number of employers keen to work with us to support 21 workstyle trials for members of the excluded workforce. We’re delighted to confirm one of those partners as Havas - one of the world’s largest global communications groups with a mission to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people. As an inaugural partner, the team at Havas have already been amazing allies in helping us shape our approach to the project and we are so excited to be working with them. If you are an employer already individualising work (or is keen to learn how) - visit ‘The 21’ link to find out more and register your interest: https://lnkd.in/eXgeN4vE #The21Project #EmployerPartnership #WorkstyleRevolution #CloseTheGaps #WorkWithoutBias