Co-CEO and ❤️ of Product, Joyous
Feb 23, 2020
| LeadershipA simple approach to difficult conversations
About two years into my career as an engineering team leader I had to have a difficult conversation. Here's how I used the SCORE framework to make it simple and painless for everyone involved.
Jun 22, 2020
| LeadershipPracticing active listening in online conversations
Leaders who value efficiency over empathy tend to sacrifice investing time in relationships with their team members. The result? Ironically, team efficiency is negatively impacted.
Jul 21, 2020
| EngagementSo, you think your organisation isn’t ready for open feedback?
If you think your organisation isn’t ready for open feedback yet, here’s five reasons why you’re wrong.
Jul 31, 2020
| LeadershipManaging feedback for more effective conversations
If you’re in any way worried about dealing with feedback in your teams - or you want to help other people in your organisation deal with their feedback - then this is the toolkit for you.
Nov 03, 2020
| EngagementThe Joyous Approach to Improving Participation
When organisations first start using Joyous, they are often also transitioning away from infrequent anonymous surveys. For whatever reason, participation seems to be one of two KPIs that are a major focus when using such anonymous tools.
Dec 01, 2020
| AgileHow (fr)agile is your organisation really?
The journey to Agile can be so fragile that you run the risk of actually seeing a decrease in productivity, and therefore even less value delivered to your customers than before.
Dec 17, 2020
| AgileTurbo boost your agile adoption with Joyous
Joyous is a feedback tool designed for regular, attributed conversations. Using Joyous in an agile context underpins the basic principles of collaboration and timely feedback, and helps to reinforce the trust equation.
Dec 18, 2020
| AgileCrowdsourcing your agile transformation strategy
Moving to agile in a large organisation can be a difficult shift. However, there are a few things you can do to make the process smoother.
Feb 12, 2021
| Employee ExperienceThe parental journey challenge - Ruby's story
I set out on a mission to create an exceptional benefit for parents. I declared my intention to our leadership team. Not just an exceptional benefit for our parents. One that we could open source and encourage others to adopt for their future parents too. So we put our heads together and this is what we came up with.
Apr 13, 2021
| LeadershipThe Collective CEO - What, How and Why I Joined
The more we experiment with the notion of shared leadership the more benefits we see. So much so that we are considering applying a shared leadership approach across other roles at Joyous in time.
Sep 13, 2021
| JoyousThe Joyous Te Reo Māori Project: Helping 100,000 kiwi employees improve their Te Reo Māori
While learning the Māori alphabet Ruby Kolesky, our Kaitiaki Hua and Co-CEO also learned that Te Reo Māori is on a path to extinction. We want to help 100,000 kiwis regularly improve their Te Reo Māori using Joyous. Why? Keeping it alive keeps our culture thriving and enriches the lives of all New Zealanders.
Sep 26, 2021
| Well-beingWhy Joyous Gives Employees Time Off To Experience Joy
Imagine if you regularly took a day off of work for no other reason than to experience Joy. Better yet, imagine if that was paid time off. What might that do for your mental well-being? Joy Days are the opposite of mental health days. Our goal is to prevent stress and burnout in the first place. We get paid time off to do the things that bring us joy. Hooray!
Nov 30, 2021
| JoyfullyProduct Strategy
In this chapter we clarify why you need a product strategy, and walk you through the 10 steps we took to form one.
Dec 04, 2021
| JoyfullyStrategic Alignment & The Negative Roadmap
This chapter of Joyfully describes how we achieve 100% alignment between our senior leaders using both positive and negative roadmaps.
Dec 07, 2021
| JoyfullyOur Organisational Structure
At Joyous people learn more, faster, than they could elsewhere. Three key factors enable this: collective leadership, partnerships, and roles with broad capabilities.
Dec 07, 2021
| JoyfullyFull Stack Product
Using our full stack product approach we combine nine roles from product, design and customer care into one person.
Dec 09, 2021
| JoyfullyCarve Into Chunks
These are the steps we take to carve objectives into smaller chunks.
Dec 09, 2021
| JoyfullyFrame Features
Learn about our design tools, design system and how we structure our design projects and files in Figma.
Dec 10, 2021
| JoyfullyDesign Solution
Learn how we go from empty frames to initial designs.
Dec 10, 2021
| JoyfullyAsynchronous Feedback
Asynchronous collaboration occurs in Figma using the comments functionality.
Dec 10, 2021
| JoyfullyMammoth Meetings
We invite the entire organisation to join us for a one hour decision making meeting.
Dec 10, 2021
| JoyfullyJoy Mapping
The purpose of Joy Mapping is to achieve clarity and alignment on what the crew will build.
Mar 15, 2022
| Career pathwaysRuby's story
Ruby Kolesky, Heart of Product and Co-CEO, shares the story of how she landed in tech after starting her career in drama and musical theatre.