lego serious play for leaders and teams from innovation culture group
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a
year of conversation -Plato
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WHAT BRICKS TO USE? Use the most basic Lego bricks They enable thinking in metaphors
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WHEN TO USE LEGO SERIOUS PLAY? Team building Unleashing creative thinking for accelerated innovation Work out a solution to a shared problem Create a shared mindset about something Constructive discussions where everybody is heard Build a shared vision Leadership development One-on-one coaching and Team coaching Use with your children, family, school, ...
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Think with your handsJust start building. Trust your hands. Let them pick the bricks they want.
Fiddle about ...
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LEGO SERIOUS PLAY – STEPS
1. The Challenge - Question2. Build a model – Metaphor3. Sharing – Give meaning – Tell your story4. Questions and reflections
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WARM UP – SKILLS BUILDING
1. Normal, non-metaphorical representation2. Metaphorical representation3. Combine models into a shared group model4. Storytelling
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WARM UP EXCERCISES
Build a duck, 5-10 minBuild a tower, 10 minBuild something; assign a description – metaphor, 10
Build your dream colleague – metaphor, 10 min
My Monday mornings – story line, 10 min
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DUCK Build a duck using 7 bricks Explain how it is a duck
Are different people’s ducks similar? Now remove 3 bricks so that you have 4 left Explain how it is still a duck
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HIGHEST TOWEREither individually or as teams:
Build the highest tower you can in 3 min It should be able to stand without any support You cannot reserve bricks
Share something about your tower – explain what it means Point out differences in the towers – no right or
wrong way of building Explain how you reasoned in the beginning. Who
did what? Did you assign roles? Did you split the work?
Test for stability – show attachment to something we have built when it breaks or is disassembled
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DREAM COLLEAGUE
1. Build a model that represents your Dream Colleague, 3 min Share, 1 min per person The facilitator asks questions to better understand
the meanings of different parts of the models2. Take one aspect from each model and make a shared model with the others in the team and place it on a paper napkin Everybody should agree on all the parts of the shared
model. Everybody on the team explains the shared model
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MY MONDAY MORNINGS
1. Build a story describing your Monday Mornings, 3-4 mins
Share your metaphor and storyline2. Take one part which you think is most important and put it in the middle and build a model together with everyone else in the group
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Listen with your eyesLook at the model that is being shared
– use your visual sense to grasp and understand even more of what the other participants are describing
EXAMPLES OF CHALLENGES
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A) FUTURE SUCCESS
1. Build a model which shows the road blocks to your immediate and future success
2. Build a model describing what your future will look like without the barriers
3. Build a model which shows what you need from others and yourself to knock down the barriers to your success
4. Combine your models which will show how you will get support from the team/group
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B) TEAM MEMBER
1. Build a model showing who you are on the team What do you bring to the team? What could you bring to the team? Build some of the functions that you carry out on the
job, also include some hidden aspects of you2. Build an addition to your model that shows how
you think others in your team perceive you3. Who are you at your best?
Build an addition to your model showing your thoughts about this – what characterizes you when you are at your best?
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C) TEAM
1. Build an individual model showing how you perceive your team:
Show what you believe your team is all about What is the spirit of the team? The feel of the team? The values of the team?
2. Build a shared model that shows what your team is all about
What is the team’s shared perception of the team? What is the spirit and the ‘feel’ of the team?
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D) TEAM ASPIRATIONS
1. Build a individual model showing what you aspire to be like as a team in the future
2. Build a shared model Each person explains each part of the shared model
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E) TEAM GOALS Build a model describing the goals for the team Build a model describing the objectives to meet the
goals (first steps to meet the goals) Build a model with the objectives in the form of a
storyline to show when in time they should be completed
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F) HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF? Build a model describing how you see yourself in
your role (team member, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Manager, ... )
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G) YOUR ROLE Build a model describing your role on the team What is easy in your role? What is difficult in your role?
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H) STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSESA. Build a model showing the strengths of your
Product, Team, Organization, ...B. Build a model describing how you can utilize the
strengths
1. Build a modell showing the weaknesses2. Build a model describing how you can remove or
compensate for the weaknesses
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J) APPRECIATION
1. Build a model describing what you appreciated in the workshop
2. Build a model describing what you would like to change in a future similar workshop
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K) RETROSPECTIVES
1. Build a model describing what went well2. Build a model describing things that we should
start or stop doing
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HOW DOES LEGO SERIOUS PLAY WORK?
Much of our brain’s activity is dedicated to the manipulation of our hands
When we model with our hands and tell stories there is more neuronal activity and better suffusion of blood to critical areas of the brain
70-80% of our brain’s nerve endings are connected to our hands
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HOW DOES LEGO SERIOUS PLAY WORK? Psychological Flow: Individuals gain most from a
learning process when they are committed to and enjoy the process
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THE FACILITATOR Creates Open-ended building challenges Gets the group’s dialogue to serve its purpose Makes the reflections and dialogue process easier Helps participants express themselves Asks clarifying questions
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PARTICIPANTS’ ETIQUETTE The Lego model is your answer to the building
challenge There are no wrong answers There is no ONE right answer – everyone has
different views What the model looks like is not the most important
thing The meaning attached to each model is what makes
it valuable The Lego models are tools and means to an end
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GROUP SIZE Roughly 8-12 people per group One workshop group requires one facilitator Large group exercises are possible – contact us to
find out how at [email protected]
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PLAY ! Put bowls of Lego bricks in your meeting rooms and
see what happens Combine Lego Serious Play with other facilitation
techniques Play around with the Lego bricks and invent new
challenges Get your workshops to a flying start by starting with
Lego Serious Play to get people talking and energized
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REFERENCES seriousplay.com seriousplaypro.com innovationculturegroup.com
Open source introduction document: LSP Introduction
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TALKS YOU MIGHT FIND INTERESTING The future depends on play:
The future depends on play_Seriouslythemovie Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play
ted.com/talks/lang/en/tim_brown_on_creativity_and_play.h
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativityted.com/talks/lang/en/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!ted.com/talks/sunni_brown.html
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT How come executives love playing with Lego? Why do we associate work with ’serious’ and play with
’not serious’ ? How can you use Lego Serious Play when you have
distributed teams? Is Lego Serious Play still ’serious’ when it is used in
schools? What is a ’lean in’ vs. a ’lean back’ meeting? How long can you keep your fingers away from a pile of
Lego bricks (e.g. in a meeting room)?