Kung Fu Fiving - Scaling Collaboration
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The presentation I gave at TechTO on Dec 5 about scaling collaboration. And Kung Fu, of course.
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Kung Fu Fiving - Scaling Collaboration
- 1. Kung Fu Fiving Scaling Collaboration in 5 minutes or less December 5, 2016 Kevin Wong Co-Founder, COO Nulogy @knwong
- 2. Teach you all a Kung Fu technique…that you can start using to collaborate tomorrow! My Goal
- 3. Do you think dividing open office space into dedicated team rooms will improve collaboration?
- 10. Enlightenment
- 12. THE POWERFUL Fist of Five
- 13. How First of Five works 1. Ask a question. 2. Say what 5 vote means. 3. Say what 0 vote means. 4. Vote! 5. Talk about the results. You instantly and comfortably have unbiased input from everyone on a topic.
- 14. Let’s try it out! Do you think dividing open office space into dedicated team rooms will improve collaboration?
- 15. Fantastic idea. That will definitely help. Terrible idea. I can’t see how that would help.
- 16. You and 600 strangers just collaborated.
- 18. THE POWERFUL Fist of Five
- 19. Everybody get Kung Fu Fiving! December 5, 2016 Kevin Wong Co-Founder, COO Nulogy @knwong
Editor's Notes
- Intro myself Nulogy growth stage enterprise SaaS company in Toronto that helps some of the worlds biggest CPG brands run some of the most complex parts of their supply chain. Talk about scaling collaboration And it’s called Kung Fu Fiving My two boys Declan and Rowan doing their best kung fu this weekend
- To start this off, I want to get a bit of input from the audience. My question Do you think turning open office space into dedicated team rooms will improve collaboration? Asking 1 brave soul in the audience. Call on someone if no one answers, move on. That was like pulling teeth, but that’s okay. I’ve see this situation before and I know how to solve it. Let me tell you a quick story about how I figured this out.
- The story goes back to the beginning of Nulogy. Founders here in 2003. Collaboration was easy when we were small.
- Friends, traveled together, lived together, we were of like mind
- From our sense of tidiness, or lack thereof.
- ...even down to what we’d eat for breakfast. When we look back at us then, it seems amazing that we got anything done at all! But we collaborated well.
- But we grew. And while things seemed good on the surface,
- We were struggling to collaborate. We started to have some real problems. To the point where people were saying they were getting steamrolled, or didn’t really want to work with certain people.
- Fortunately for us, we hired a couple amazing guys who took us to collaboration enlightenment. They introduced us to a host of new techniques for collaborating and almost overnight things ran smoother.
- This has allowed us to grow to well over 100 people now in 12 distinct functional specialties. A third of the company started under a year ago. Yet we collaborate even better than when it was just the 5 of us in a living room, which I strongly believe is why we’ve been recognized as one of the Best Employers in Canada for the last 3 years. Collaboration is a skill that is easy to take for granted. Like other skills you need practice, and the right tools. So here is the skill I want to teach you all today.
- So the technique I want to talk about today is called The Fist of Five. It’s really simple, and it helps drive effective collaboration by instantly giving the group data on what is important to talk about.
- So the technique I want to talk about today is called The Fist of Five. It’s really simple, and it helps drive effective collaboration by instantly giving the group data on what is important to talk about.
- So the technique I want to talk about today is called The Fist of Five. It’s really simple, and it helps drive effective collaboration by instantly giving the group data on what is important to talk about.
- There we have it. At the beginning of the talk you saw how hard it can be to find out what even a couple people are thinking. Using the Fist of Five I was able to get an idea of what 700 of you are thinking in an instant.
- It might take you years to learn to master the Kung Fu Hand postures. And if you do, you can’t use them in meetings without getting fired.
- By contrast, you just learned something else you can do with your fist in 5 minutes. The fist of five, is easy, yet powerful. You have no reason not to try it out this week!
- So to paraphrase Carl Douglas, Everybody get Kung Fu Fiving! I’ll share out the slides on twitter so you can get them.