PowerPoint Presentation

Kung Fu FivingScaling Collaboration in 5 minutes or lessDecember 5, 2016

Kevin WongCo-Founder, COO Nulogy@knwong

Intro myselfNulogy 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 collaborationAnd its called Kung Fu Fiving My two boys Declan and Rowan doing their best kung fu this weekend

Teach you all a Kung Fu techniquethat you can start using to collaborate tomorrow!My Goal

Do you think dividing open office space into dedicated team rooms will improve collaboration?

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 thats okay. Ive 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 wed 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,

Struggle

We were struggling to collaborate. We started to have some real problems. To the point where people were saying they were getting steamrolled, or didnt really want to work with certain people.

Enlightenment

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 weve 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.

THE POWERFULFist of Five

So the technique I want to talk about today is called The Fist of Five. Its really simple, and it helps drive effective collaboration by instantly giving the group data on what is important to talk about.

How First of Five worksAsk a question.Say what 5 vote means.Say what 0 vote means.Vote!Talk about the results.You instantly and comfortably have unbiased input from everyone on a topic.

So the technique I want to talk about today is called The Fist of Five. Its really simple, and it helps drive effective collaboration by instantly giving the group data on what is important to talk about.

Lets try it out!Do you think dividing open office space into dedicated team rooms will improve collaboration?

So the technique I want to talk about today is called The Fist of Five. Its really simple, and it helps drive effective collaboration by instantly giving the group data on what is important to talk about.

Fantastic idea. That will definitely help.Terrible idea. I cant see how that would help.

You and 600 strangers just collaborated.

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 cant use them in meetings without getting fired.

THE POWERFULFist of Five

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!

Everybody get Kung Fu Fiving!

December 5, 2016

Kevin WongCo-Founder, COO Nulogy@knwong

So to paraphrase Carl Douglas, Everybody get Kung Fu Fiving!

Ill share out the slides on twitter so you can get them.