Creating work that is joyous and super productive, one manageable step at a time
In the modern organisation, we spend more time than ever doing work-about-work with ourselves—meetings, approvals, asking, reporting, chasing. And every moment spent doing this meaningless work-about-work is less time spent doing what matters. In the average organisation, work-about-work is now 60% of the time each day. That’s a huge hidden tax: it’s like sitting down for work at 9:00am but not starting the work that matters until 2:00pm.
It’s no one’s fault, it’s the price we pay for a default system of work that no longer fits the modern world.
What if you had a simple way to modernise that system, to turn off work-about-work at the source?
Where might you be when you can spend more time doing what matters?
It’s time for modern practices that fit modern work.
When you maximise these three engines, you stop work-about-work at the source
We make it easy to choose and try better practices that fuel these three engines of Shared Clarity, Allocation Agility, and Execution Velocity in the modern organisation.
Introducing the Joyous Work Playbook: More than 70 modern, better, proven practices for your system of Work.
With our signature service, Worksmithing, Joyous Work helps your team, department, or organisation continuously tune its system of work to deliver better outcomes and make it more joyous to do so.
Here’s what you get:
A shortcut to better: We cut through the noise to help you select, adapt, and experiment with better practices that fit you.
Doing, not rhetoric: We roll up our sleeves with you - designing processes, training teams, and facilitating sessions until better ways of working take root.
A new discipline: Weekly Worksmith sessions create rhythm and momentum — your continuous improvement loop in action.
Enduring impact: We develop your Worksmithing capability so improvement doesn’t depend on us. It becomes part of your DNA.
Led by John Rizzo. John believes the extraordinary advancement of human society over the last 250 years owes a great deal to a single catalyst: technologies that allow humans to collaborate at scale. John’s deep understanding of systems of work comes from more than two decades of strategy, customer, marketing, and ventures leadership in major organisations, including ANZ Bank and Bupa Asia Pacific, with start-up teams of three to multinational teams of hundreds.
John has been an advisor to leaders of organisations of all sizes, from Australia Post, AFL and Jetstar, to not-for-profits and scale-ups including Flying Fox, East Forged and Bunch.