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Build, share and explore solutions to your biggest business issues via the use of LEGO. Our LEGO Serious Play workshops are designed to unlock creativity and innovation in professional settings, offering a unique approach to problem-solving and collaboration.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a revolutionary methodology that goes beyond conventional problem-solving approaches. Before we dive into what it can do for you, your colleagues and your business, here's a quick overview of its origins, the science, the profound impact it can have on fostering creativity within teams and why we use it for SAP UX Design.
The Steps
LEGO Serious Play (LSP) follows a structured sequence of steps to facilitate collaborative problem-solving and decision-making. While the process can be tailored to specific client needs, the key steps generally include:
Participants are introduced to the LSP methodology and engage in warm-up exercises to build basic skills with LEGO bricks. This step sets the stage by demonstrating how playful interactions can create complex adaptive systems, showcasing the method’s versatility.
CONTENT
Participants build individual LEGO models to represent their ideas or solutions related to a given challenge. These individual models are then combined into shared models, reflecting the group’s collective understanding and approach to the content.
Shared models are placed on a common landscape, creating a visual representation of the system. Participants add internal and external agents (such as stakeholders or forces) and strategically place them on the landscape to illustrate relationships and dynamics.
Connections are built between agents and between shared models and agents, highlighting the interactions and interdependencies within the system. This step reveals the complexity and interconnectedness of the elements within the system.
Participants explore the system by identifying and playing out emergent scenarios, using strategic imagination to anticipate potential outcomes. This step helps to uncover new insights and possible challenges within the system.
The group develops, selects, and tests simple guiding principles that can guide decision-making within the system. These principles are validated against the system to ensure they are effective and relevant.
Key conclusions are drawn from the process, and participants develop concrete plans or strategies to implement the insights gained. This additional step ensures that the outcomes of the LSP process are actionable in real-world contexts.
LEGO Serious Play is adaptable to various industries, making it a powerful tool across multiple sectors:
1) Business and Leadership
In business and leadership, LEGO Serious Play is invaluable for strategy development, team building, and problem-solving. It helps leaders gain unique insights from their teams and fosters a collaborative approach to decision-making.
2) Education and Training
Educators and trainers use LEGO Serious Play to enrich learning experiences. By integrating hands-on activities with LEGO bricks, participants better understand complex concepts, making learning more engaging and effective.
3) Innovation and Product Development
For innovation and product development, LEGO Serious Play offers a fresh approach. Teams can explore new ideas, identify challenges, and create innovative solutions through this interactive and tactile methodology.
4) SAP and Software Development
In software development, particularly in SAP projects, LEGO Serious Play enhances user experience and boosts adoption rates. This innovative approach helps teams improve design processes and achieve more user-friendly outcomes.
The Benefits
LEGO Serious Play creates a multitude of benefits for an organisation and individual participants. These educational changes form new habits for creative thinking and problem-solving, creating a culture of innovation. These individual benefits include:
LEGO Serious Play facilitates open communication within teams. The physical models act as a universal language, allowing participants to express ideas that may be challenging to articulate verbally.
The hands-on nature of LEGO Serious Play injects an element of fun and creativity into professional settings, leading to increased participant engagement and motivation. This, in turn, enhances the quality of collaboration and idea generation.
By encouraging participants to build and share their models, LEGO Serious Play promotes a unique problem-solving dynamic. It encourages out-of-the-box thinking and allows for the exploration of unconventional solutions.
Ready to weed out long-standing organisation issues and unlock new possibilities for your business? Complete your innovation journey with an LSP Workshop and discover the power of LEGO. Let’s take the next step together. Here’s how to get started:
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