Workstyle Freestyle - 'Futureproofing'
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Welcome to #WorkstyleFreestyle
with me, Alex, and with me, Lizzie
and today we've got a
special guest with us
continuing our
Managing Director series
Hello!
So can you tell us who you are,
and why you joined Hoxby?
I'm Ben Foulkes,
I am a bit of a heretic
a bit of a sceptic
I like to challenge things
like living in the city
and having a corporate career
so I wanted to move down
to Cornwall
I'm a very keen surfer
and Hoxby just felt like a
really perfect fit
to allow me to do that
and to work with some
passionate people
about changing the way that we live
and the way that we work.
Brilliant! I mean who wouldn't want
to work around their surfing hobby?
Why shouldn't everyone?
So you run a business unit
tell us a bit about it
what's it called, what does it do?
So Hoxby Futureproofing
just helps organisations
rethink and challenge the orthodoxies they have
about the way they do things.
So just one example is
the culture that companies have
perhaps around meetings all day
or working and employing
people 9 to 5
we help them rethink that and whether that's
particularly necessary and
particularly productive
to be perfectly honest.
So we challenge those beliefs.
Inspiring stuff. We love it.
And can you give us some of
the clients that
you've worked with in the Futureproofing business unit?
So we've worked with
a number of big organisations
who have a massive impact
in the world
Unilever, Merck, Anglian Water
a range of things really about
challenging their industrial beliefs.
Brilliant.
Fantastic forward-thinking companies
and of the projects that we've done
what would you say is
your favourite?
I think the one that we've been
focusing on at the moment is
so relevant with Coronavirus
is virtual leadership
and so many companies
now looking at
how they manage and lead
remote teams
we've codified a lot of that
how we've dealt with it in Hoxby
the lessons we've learnt
and what makes great virtual leadership vs just great leadership
and we're working with Merck
at the moment
on some of those skills
some of those tools
that make that really effective.
Fantastic. Brilliant.
And for all the people who are watching this
and feeling inspired
what's the one thing you would
say to them to do?
I think really just challenge yourself
challenge people you work with
or challenge a client
on what's an industrial era belief
that you think is holding people back
from doing their best work
share in the thread
let's start a conversation about it
let's put Hoxby's hive mind
of collective intelligence to work at
how we can get around that
sort of challenge.
Brilliant. Inspiring stuff.
Share it in the comments below.
Thank you so much for joining us
and thank you all for tuning in
we've been #WorkstyleFreestyle
we'll see you next time.
Bye for now!