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Modern work is broken.

Most fixes patch over symptoms. We help you fix the root causes, one practice at a time.

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Change that is small enough to happen, big enough to matter.

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Nobody designed work to be like this.

It happened by accident.

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The conventional practices we use in the modern organisation are in most cases more than 100 years old, designed for problems that no longer exist in our world of instant communication, scaled collaboration, and technologies that were science fiction mere decades ago.

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It's time for modern practices that fit modern work.

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Introducing the Joyous Work Playbook: More than 50 modern, better, proven practices for your system of work, each presented in a consistent format that breaks change into small, manageable steps.

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Each practice is shaped by real world experience of global work practice leaders and the latest thinking in organisational and behavioural science.

 

This isn’t a static framework. The Playbook evolves as human knowledge of work evolves. It’s a living shortcut to the best of what is effective now - not yesterday.

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What does a practice look like?

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Laser precise root cause change

Every Joyous Work practice advances the three organisation abilities that create joyous and super-productive work

Work Clarity

The ability to hold, at all times, a very clear shared view of what work will and will not be done

Allocation Agility

The ability to adjust at pace the allocation of limited resources to support the most important work

Execution Velocity

The ability to prevent obstacles and interruptions that get in the way of executing of work

Services

90-min Better Practice Starter

A focused 90-minute experience with rapid system of work diagnosis and an energetic exploration of better practices from the Joyous Work Playbook. Perfect for a team meeting or planning offsite.
 

You get: A short list of better practices you can try tomorrow.

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Capability Training

In-depth, story-filled, and highly-practical training in Joyous Work for individuals and teams. Typically between one half and a full day.

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You get: A big boost in skills to drive continuous improvement in your system of work, practical how-to guides, and full access to the Joyous Work Playbook of better practices.

Weekly Practice Coaching

Your enabler of continuous improvement in your system of work: one-hour weekly group coaching to support implementation of better practices, with access to an extensive library of proven implementation accelerators.

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You get: Transformative change in joyous and super-productive work, in manageable weekly iterations.

1:1 Coaching

Coaching support for CEOs and Senior Leaders, applied to your hottest challenges and opportunities: a bespoke mix of Weekly Practice Coaching and Capability Training adapted to your current objectives and pressures.

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You get: Personalised support to deliver transformative change in joyous and super-productive work, and accelerated capability development.

Keynotes & Offsites

Forget that rote offsite agenda! Facilitation of team gatherings with Joyous Work are high-energy, insightful, provocative, and practical. We help participants see the organisation as a living system, simplified into conventional and better practices, and delivered in stories, games, and discussion. Every session is bespoke: we work with you to shape the best possible experience.

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You get: A high-energy, bespoke keynote or offsite experience.

Introductory Call

We would love to explore what joyous and super-productive work looks like for you.

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When we meet someone new, we start with an introductory call. This gives us a chance to learn a little about each other, and for you to decide if support from Joyous Work is right for you.

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For too long we have accepted an inextricable association between work and suffering.

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We just need to push through, work is work.

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That 'just pushing through' leads to 77% of people reporting burnout.

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The average adult will invest 90,000 hours of their life into work.

That should be a joyous experience, and it can be.

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Founded in 2024 by John Rizzo, Joyous Work is shaped by five years of research into the collection of conventional practices that comprise the default organisation, the better practices that fit a hyperactive tech-centric modern world, and more than twenty years of experience getting work done in organisations from one to one hundred thousand people.

Joyous work is the feeling of doing a thing that matters, and doing it well.​

Hands in the dirt creating a beautiful garden. Hands on coding to create a super-secure payment portal. Caring for the vulnerable. Deep exploration of data to learn something important. Coaching. Teaching. Investigating. Building. Fixing. Designing. Discovering.

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It is fundamentally human to want to do things that matter, and do them well. Put in even simpler terms, joyous work is about executing our crafts.

 

Nothing suffocates executing our crafts like 100 year old conventional work practices colliding with the hyperactive, tech-centric modern world.

 

It's time to choose better practices that increase joy and productivity.

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For all enquiries please reach out to john@joyouswork.com
Thoughts, provocations, and explorations of the world of modern work at
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