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Management by Sticky Notes Collaborative Results Made Easy
#MBSN
Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA
CEO Maryland Association of CPAs
Business Learning Institute
Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA!
Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA CEO MACPA www.macpa.org and Business Learning Institute (BLI) www.blionline.org!
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhood/!
If there is a conversation about the future of the profession, you're bound to hear Hood's name mentioned as one of the people leading the way.
– Accounting Today Magazine!
• Named the Second Most Influential in Accounting by Accounting Today Magazine 2013
• Linked-In Top 150 Influencer • Top 25 Influencers in Learning & HR by HR
Examiner • Top 25 Thought Leaders in Public Accounting
by CPA Practice Adviser • Working on Learning Management with AICPA/
CPA2Biz, Cloud Curriculum, Performance Management !
http://macpa.cnf.io!!
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What do you notice?
The Problem
70%
The solution?
Management by Sticky Notes #MBSN
What not to do… https://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_detailpage&v=cy9B7a8poF4
“In order to buy-in, people have to
weigh-in.” - Pat Lencioni
Interchange
an act or instance of interchanging; reciprocal exchange
Exchanging what?
Ideas
“None of us us as smart as all of us.”
-Dr. Ken Blanchard
CEOs have a new strategy in the unending war for talent. They are crea9ng more open and collabora9ve cultures — encouraging employees to connect, learn from each other and thrive in a world of rapid change. Collabora9on is the number-‐one trait CEOs are seeking in their employees. – IBM Global CEO Study 2012
The collaboration curve is replacing the experience curve
“The organizations that will become the household names of this century will be renowned for sustained, large-scale, efficient innovation.
The key to that capability is neither company loyalty nor free-agent autonomy but, rather, a strong collaborative community.”
HBR, July-August 2011
Why? “We are moving from
organizations well managed to
networks well led.” - Jim Collins
If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing
going on. – Larry ‘Google’ Page
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise
most effectively have prevailed – Charles Darwin
It’s Official���2014 is The Year of the Sticky!
#MBSN #YearoftheSticky
What is MBSN? Management by Sticky Notes
MBSN Principles
• Wisdom of the crowd • Participation and engagement • Ideas are portable (sticky
notes) • Making your thinking visible to
others • Buy-in from co-creation
How have we used it?
CPA Horizons 2025
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Listen, Listen, Listen Participation, Participation, Participation
• Only one idea per stickie note • Write big and neat with markers • Ideal group size 6 – 8 people • Pods of 30 – 40 people • Process
• Individual Thinking and Writing (3 – 5 minutes) • Small Group discussion and consensus (write top 3-5
best ideas on stickies per table) • Big Group Synthesis and Agreement
Facilitation Wikipedia - is any activity that makes tasks for others easy
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• Participation rule – Be absent or present but not both!
• Share the air with each other • Give the ideas time to live (they are fragile) • Link and build • Ground rules for consensus building
• Love it • Like it • Live with it (must have this or keep discussing or move on)
Facilitation
What about your introverts?
What about these guys?
Colleagues Against Virtually Everything!
What we believe…���Finding your competitive edge – turning the flywheel
“It is hard to plan for the long term future when you don’t know what is going to happen five
minutes from now. Today, a competitive edge is thin and temporary; the edge quickly becomes
the margin.
The ability to define the edge, and the ultimate competitive advantage, is found in the smarts,
heart and ingenuity of your people - that's your powerhouse. Tap that, train it, focus it and
mobilize it; now you've engaged your network and inspired a sustainable shift.”
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Listen, Listen, Listen Participation, Participation, Participation
• Setup exercise – instructions • Ground rules for consensus building
• Love it • Like it • Live with it (must have this or keep discussing or move on)
• #MBSN - Management by Sticky Notes • Only one idea per stickie note • Individual Thinking and Writing (3 – 5 minutes) • Small Group discussion and consensus (write top 3-5 best ideas
on stickies per table) • Big Group Synthesis and Agreement
The Process • General Session MBSN – What are the Top Five
Issues/Trends and the Time to Address is Now • 5 mins to think and write • 20 mins to discuss and create top 5 • 5 minutes to create the top 5 stickies
• Consolidate the rounds – four corners 15 minutes – Each corner consolidates from their groups of tables and clusters the like issues into Top Five ideas
• Report out from each corner - 15 minutes • Move to Breakouts
Brainstorm
Breakouts – Strategy Cafes Ideas for Action – How can we add / create value from these top trends/issues? • Create a poster of the Top Five from General Session • Show of hands for which topic to work on • Round 1at tables = 20 mins
• 5 mins to think individually • 15 mins to discuss and create top 5
• Report Out – Progressive Post = 20 mins • Call tables by number up to put top 5 stickies and
cluster as they go (think buffet line at wedding) • Dot Vote final group of stickies in room and recap
(10 minutes)
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