WORK HACKS Podcasts for productivity

Raise the bar

FANS of the website Lifehacker will enjoy its podcast — The Upgrade — which promises to help you improve your life, one day at a time. Presented by Melissa Kirsch and Alice Bradley, it’s not work-specific, but often covers topics such as finding your career path and how to pursue a ‘side hustle’. lifehacker.com/tag/the-upgrade

Top thinking

AUTHOR and adviser Todd Henry is behind The Accidental Creative, which looks at everyday practices that can help you stay ahead of the game in life and in work.

Recent episodes tackle issues such as leadership and legacy and how to design your business so that it will run itself. accidentalcreative.com

Go with the flow

TIME-MANAGEMENT specialist and productivity strategist Mike Vardy hosts a weekly show, The Productivityist podcast. Featuring interviews with experts, it delivers tricks and tips to make your work and life flow more efficiently, from the power of building a routine to exploring the direct link between productivity and happiness. productivityist.com

Productive ponderings

THE award-winning Back To Work podcast focuses on communication, productivity, tools and constraints and a lot more. Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin’s take on everything from the tyranny of earliness, to extensive discussions on keyboards and weather apps, make it a perennially engaging show. http://5by5.tv/b2w/