In a period of rapid change and increasing complexity, the winners will be those who can keep their rate of learning greater than the rate of change and greater than their competition or their L > C. It's time to reimagine the CPA profession around the concepts of talent development and learning. New skills, new ways of learning, and new thinking. The need for a strategic and systematic approach to talent development is already underway in many high-performing organizations. Are you ready for these sweeping, even disruptive trends? This presentation covers the latest trends and what we see as "next" practices emerging and how we, at the Business Learning Institute, are working to help CPA firms, corporations, government, and nonprofits with a new approach to talent development and learning designed to get two things: (1) business results and (2) engaged employees who are willing to give you their discretionary efforts!

1. A New Era in Talent Development
and Learning
Tom Hood, CEO, Business Learning Institute
& Maryland Association of CPAs
www.blionline.org

2. Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA
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
!
CEO
Maryland Association of CPAs
(MACPA) www.macpa.org
Business Learning Institute
(BLI) www.blionline.org
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Named the Second Most Influential in Accounting
by Accounting Today Magazine 2013
Top 150 Influencer by Linked-In
Top 25 Influencers in Learning & HR by HR
Examiner
Top 25 Public Accounting Thought Leaders by
CPA Practice Adviser
Working on Learning Management with AICPA/
CPA2Biz, Cloud Curriculum, Performance
Management /XBRL, Leadership & Generations
http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhood/

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5. Yesterday the World
Changed, Now It’s Your Turn
- Mike Walsh

6. HOW TO PROFIT FROM
INNOVATION: Building the
Agile Learning Organization
www.blionline.org

7. The Paradox
The faster things change,
the farther you have to
look ahead.

8. The Shift Change

9. The Shift Change

10. The Shift Change
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Leadership!
Learning!
Technology!
Generations!
Workplace!

11. If Content is King,
Context is the Kingdom!
- Will Avegerakis - AICPA

12. Where did I get this stuff?

13. The research…

14. Historical Context – The
Perfect Storm
• Web 2.0
• Globalization
• Generations
Source: Don Tapscott - Wikinomics

15. The New Normal - VUCA

16. The Research
67%
#1 issue is developing
leaders succession
planning
www.blionline.org

17. The top three issues facing human resources talent development
1.
2.
3.
A shortage of creative, agile leaders.
Inability to rapidly develop workforce skills and capabilities.
Ineffective collaboration and knowledge sharing.
www.blionline.org
Source: 2010 IBM Global Chief Human Resource Officer study

18. Shift Happens
www.blionline.org

19. Paradigm Shift
The
high
performers
in
our
survey
invest
more
in
talent,
focus
on
closing
skills
gaps,
have
more
customized
training
and
development
programs,
iden9fy
future
leaders
earlier
in
their
careers,
and
have
robust
succession
plans
in
place.
They
also
focus
more
on
“so=”
leadership
skills
such
as
the
ability
to
embody
the
organiza9on’s
culture
and
values
and
to
lead
effec9vely
in
a
complex
global
business
environment.
www.blionline.org
Source: EY Paradigm Shift: Building a new talent management model to boost growth

22. Our approach – The Four C’s
• Career Path (Ladder)
• Competency-based
Learning
• Curriculum
• Cloud
www.blionline.org

23. The Bounce
www.blionline.org

24. www.blionline.org

25. www.blionline.org

26. T
Curriculum design by BLI and
AICPA using Top 5 Competencies
for future from CPA Horizons
research and job levels from the
BLI “Bounce” Model. Leadership
and Communications were
combined and the 5th category
expanded to include practice
specialties for firms and functional
areas for corporate.
Examples would include:
Corporate Accounting, FPA,
divisional reporting, shared
services, etc.
CPA Firms would have audit, tax,
industry specialties.
These technical areas would have
specific curriculums designed to
meet their specific technical
competency needs.

27. Learning as a Platform
www.blionline.org

28. Learning as a Platform
“If we could help learners manage
their learning, I speculate that there
would be as much as a 500 percent
increase in benefits…”
- Patricia McLagan – ASTD Magazine
www.blionline.org

29. Learning Delivery Channel Continuum
LIVE
Face to Face
Classroom
ON DEMAND
Live Webcasts
Virtual
Classrooms
Collaboration,
Community, and
Coaching and
Knowledge Mgmt
Mentoring
Self-paced
Web-based
Courses
Social Learning
Books, Podcasts,
Videos, Blogs
Job Aids,
Performance
Support Tools
OLI/I
/OEI
LEOI
ILI
Foundation Learning/Re-skilling
Competency Development
Collaborative Learning Experiences
Source: Bob Dean – BLI Thought Leader
© Copyright 2013 Business Learning Institute

30. CloudLearning - JIT

31. CloudLearning - JIT

32. AICPA Navigator
• A full featured Learning
Management System
• Integrated with a Compliance
Tracking system for CPAs
• Customized for your organization
• Based on an Open Architecture for
your own content
• Including a Complete Curriculum
designed by the CPA Profession
Copyright 2013 - Business Learning Institute

33. CloudLearning
We see this system as a key recruitment and retention
tool, allowing us to offer our people many of the things
that the largest firms do - competency–based
curriculum, career paths, and just-in-time learning, and
our own custom DS learning center.
- Allen DeLeon, Managing Partner!

34. Engagement – Alignment - Commitment
www.blionline.org

35. R.O.P = R.O.I
www.blionline.org

36. Your Competitive Advantage
“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 based solely on material
advantage 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 a network
and inspired a sustainable shift.
www.blionline.org

37. How can we help you keep your LC?
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•
•
•
Strategy Alignment
Curriculum tied to strategy
I2a Leadership Academy
BLI Leadership Express - ondemand leadership support
• Social learning
http://cpa.tc/32r
In a period of rapid change and
increasing complexity, the winners
will be those organizations who
can keep their rate of learning
greater than the rate of change
and greater than their
competition. – Tom Hood
www.blionline.org

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