It’s official. My life with stickers has come full circle. After a month in Asia FINALLY finishing my MBA, I returned to what we like to call at TBG, “The Process Summit”. This has now become an annual tradition where the TBG directors block off a week and take a thorough look at our company, evaluate our priorities and then agree on what we need to spend energy on improving for the year. With 15 directors in a room there are lots to discuss and a lot of ideas put on the table. This makes it essential to have some sort of mechanism to be able to rank and prioritize. How do we do it you might ask? Well, we go back to a trusted tool I used to employ during my days teaching Kindergarten….. dots. Here we are hard at work:
In Kindergarten we used dots for everything. Silent voting on special activities, assigning groups for field trips and even special holiday crafts. Check out this nifty paper plate snowman perfect for a day like today :) (directions available upon request):

In business school we also made good use of the dots. Core group spirit, program identification and easy drinking buddy association. For those not as familiar, nametags are everywhere in business school and there is nothing like a little colored dot in the corner to foster some core group pride or help you find “insta-friends” at happy hours, corporate presentations and orientations.

All this to say… Stock up. Dots are good. Pink are my favorite.