**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist: Highly Commended**

**The People’s Book Prize 2023/24 Shortlisted Title**

Dreading Monday? Feeling stuck in your career? Frustrated with your boss?

Here’s the ouchy (but awesome) bit: The only person who can fix it is you.

Beth Stallwood is a sought-after coach, facilitator, speaker and consultant, specialising in helping people find more joy at work, and helping organisations nurture their people. She’s distilled years of experience into the practical WorkJoy toolkit, inspiring you to take ownership of your working life by:

• Breaking free from ‘work/life balance’ and un-blurring your boundaries
• Reframing relationships with your organisation, boss and support squad
• Letting go of limiting beliefs and crafting big goals that won’t go in the bin

You’ll spend more than a third of your lifetime working, so there’s no better time to take the wheel and start creating more WorkJoy than right now.

bethstallwood.com/

Excellent book. I love the concepts, the examples/stories and the very practical excercises. Would highly recommend to anyone wanting to feel more joy at work.

Brilliantly set out, easy to take on board, whether you read or dip into it, it’s the worklife manual that everyone should be given on their first day at work!

The ways of thinking in this jam-packed book helped me to turn a career cul-de-sac into a path of excitement, fulfilment, and… well… WorkJoy. An excellent toolkit for any stage of your career.
Jordan Saxby, People Insights Partner – Greene King

It’s like catching up with the wisest, most knowledgeable, compassionate, and pragmatic friend or mentor. These pages are crammed with uplifting, accessible tools and techniques, and full of insight. It’s an incredibly well-researched and helpful book that I will dip into over and over again… and be gifting to everyone I know. We are living in tough times and, somehow, Beth has found a way to uplift her readers. There’s actionable relief in these pages.
Janie van Hool, leadership communication specialist and author of The Listening Shift

This is a unique, uplifting, and useful book. Beth’s podcast and book are both practical sources of inspiration for anyone wanting to work better, bring extra joy into their lives and boost their self-esteem. The book teaches us all to let go a little and look around to enjoy what’s already in front of us. It’s a great resource for anyone who is stuck and wanting to regain their spark, or for those at a crossroads in life who are seeking inspiration on which way to turn.
Alison Cooper, entrepreneur and CEO – Alicia J. Diamonds

If you’re wishing you enjoyed your job more then this practical book from Beth Stallwood has all the insights, exercises, and strategies you need to transform your working experience and create a job and career you love.
Carla Miller, author of Closing the Influence Gap

Beth Stallwood’s infectious positivity infuses every page of this book – your practical and actionable guide to a working life filled with Engagement, Energy and Experimentation. Buy a copy and banish your WorkGloom – we all need more WorkJoy in our lives!
Dr Gary Crotaz, PhD, executive coach, author of The IDEA Mindset, and host of ‘The Unlock Moment’ podcast

Beth has written this transformative book in a way that you feel her closely alongside you, guiding you with care, humour and deep insight through the WorkJoy Toolkit. This is a pragmatic, perspective shifting read that invites reflection and offers highly effective exercises along the way. I really appreciated the relational lens through which Beth views our wellbeing at work, and the empowerment she encourages through empathy and accountability. Here is an enlightening and inspirational guide that is sure to ignite joy and unleash potential.
Ruth Coates, psychotherapist and therapeutic writing guide

This book is essential reading for the modern workplace – leaders and staff alike. It cuts right to the heart of what is affecting people in careers around the world and how a ‘job’ is just one part of bringing balance and happiness to work. Pick this up, take control of your choices, and see the difference you can make. There is not a perfect career or a linear path to get one, but this book will help you or your team navigate it.
Matt Jowett, Head of Transformation Delivery and Comms – Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office

Having worked with Beth for many years, I’ve always marvelled at her ability to bring both pragmatism and positivity to any situation, however complex. The genius of WorkJoy is understanding that with practice and by being more purposeful in our pursuit of fulfilment at work we can all learn to be more like Beth. For me, WorkJoy has made a huge difference to the way I approach work and it’s something I’m grateful for on a daily basis.
Jo Smallwood, Head of Learning and Development – Soldo

In this book, Beth has taken a complex and elusive the pursuit of a better, joyful working life, and has written a powerful guide to making this happen in your own life. Beth’s way of thinking and writing is incredibly engaging – from the sharply defined concepts to the practical solutions. From the questions for reflection to my favourite parts of the book, the mental models and the visual depictions that light up my brain. It’s shifted the way I work. The way I lead. And even the way I think. This is more than a toolkit for a better working life. It’s a full yet fun-filled manual for creating a better LIFE.
Chet Morjaria, business and communications coach, co-founder of Impact Accelerator, and author of Work Worth Doing

This book is truly joyous and uplifting! It’s full of practical tips to help us take a proactive approach to creating a more fulfilling life at work and beyond. There is something for every reader whatever your chosen profession and whatever stage of career you’re at, and a useful reminder that whilst we can’t always control outcomes, we can choose to make the journey and experience of our working lives more joyful.
Dr Cath Bishop, Olympian, former diplomat, leadership and culture coach and consultant, author of The Long Win

Sometimes a book comes along which is one of those that you will continue to pick up and dive into long after the first read. Beth has brilliantly brought together both the art and science of making work better each day in a way that is both instantly relatable and readily transferable.
Kate Goodger, PhD C. Psychol, Group Head of Human Innovation and Performance – Laing O’Rourke

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements

• The WorkJoy Mindset
• The WorkJoy Formula
• The WorkJoy Method

Part 1: Mindset / Head

• Stories
• Lives
• Careers

Part 2: People / Heart

• Squads
• Bosses
• Moodhoovers
• Organisations

Part 3: Actions / Hands

• Goals
• Habits
• Hurdles

Conclusion
Recommended additional reading

FORMAT / ISBN / PUBLICATION DATE / RRP

Paperback / 9781788603584 / January 10, 2023 / £14.99

Ebook / 9781788603607 / January 9, 2023 / £7.99

Paperback and eBook Bundle / £16.99

Beth Stallwood

Beth Stallwood is a people development expert, with an impressive track record of enabling people to achieve their career and life goals. She’s a sought-after speaker and facilitator and talks to thousands of people about personal development, human leadership and making workplaces fabulous.
Beth trained as an executive Coach and Mentor with the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring and spent 15 years working with current and future leaders as they transitioned into senior roles.
She set up her consulting business in 2017, partnering with leading edge organisations, across investment, sport, education, public sector, media,and technology, to transform the way they engage, develop and lead their people.
She’s on a mission to help individuals cultivate more joy at work AND to help organisations develop cultures that allow that to happen, creating that rare prize: Employee and Employer Win-Win.