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LEGO® Serious Play® — For Managers Solve Your Business Challenges Playfully & with Fun!Michael TarnowskiPlays-In-Business.com
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is a structured and facilitated workshop method for strategic decision making and problem resolution in business environments.Picture Credit: Bill Ward, https://www.flickr.com/photos/billward/3640805316
Fast Understanding of Problems and Solutions Solutions immediately applicable on the Work Floor next Day Strong Commitment to related Decisions Fast Return on Invest of workshop costsPicture Credit: Wolfgang Lonien, https://www.flickr.com/photos/wjlonien/11027445953
Your benefit using LEGO® Serious Play®
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LEGO® Serious Play® Engages People
“Lean Forward” Meetings: all participants engage equally.
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Haptical Thinking Strong Commitment
Think with your Hands!Understanding the World in 3D is Easier
Everyone who… …is faced a complex problem and does not know how to handle it. …wants to engage all resources available in her organisation. …wants to turn visions into commitments.
Who should use LEGO® Serious Play®? 1/4
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Everyone who… …wants to design actions. …develops leadership and teams. …does 1:1 coaching
Who should use LEGO® Serious Play®? 2/4
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Everyone who… …looks for a solution to a shared problem. …has to create a shared mind-set about something. …builds a shared vision.Picture Credit: Graham Richardson, https://www.flickr.com/photos/didbygraham/8420446592/
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Who should use LEGO® Serious Play®? 4/4
Everyone who… …wants constructive discussions where everybody is heard. …has to create a shared mind-set about something. …wants constructive discussions where everybody is heard.Picture Credit: Graham Richardson, https://www.flickr.com/photos/didbygraham/8420446592/
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1. Challenging: Facilitator raises a Question/Problem2. Constructing: Participants build Models 3. Story Telling: Participants share Interpretation4. Reflecting: Participants create Common Understanding
How LEGO® Serious Play® works
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Is a structured, facilitated method. Answers questions rephrasing the business topics.
The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. Is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP): Is a secure and safe place to image and explore ideas by building models with
LEGO® bricks. Creates a shared understanding about the problem space in question. Investigates complex and dynamic dependencies and emergences.Picture Credit: desbiens_jean, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeandesbiens/6079961911
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While playing participants think outside the box creatively without stress.
Participants construct the models in a flow of intense playing. The models “emerge” out of the bricks at hand without any long-term
rational pre-design. Playing with and challenging the model constructs new knowledge
Are you facing a complex problem and don’t know what to do next?
Michael Tarnowski, Certified LEGO Serious Play FacilitatorPlays-In-Business.comPicture Credit: Ellen Forsyth, https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellf/7094498773
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More Information on LSP: http://bit.ly/pibLSPslideshare