Introduction to LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - a Playful Tool for Your Challenges
Introductory presentation of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY and of its use for approaching business challenges. Video of the presentation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucn5QqhtxaU Presented by Marko Rillo from SeriousPlayPro.com - the global community of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitators. Take a photo of your buildings and share: #LegoSeriousPlay with http://twitter.com/SeriousPlayPro or send your questions and comments to http://seriousplaypro.com/forum The presentation focuses on three reasons why LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® makes a difference 1) stronger engagement of a team 2) play helps to understand better 3) metaphors help conveying messages and remember the most important. Types of challenges with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Core process of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (4- Step Core Process. Copyright by Kristiansen & Rasmussen (2014) Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method. page 51: www.amazon.com/dp/1118832450/?tag=seriousplay-20): 1. Posing a question 2. Constructing the model 3. Sharing the story of the model 4. Reflecting and synthesizing on the model It also briefly touches upon primary application techniques of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Follow the global LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® community SeriousPlayPro.com at social media: http://twitter.com/SeriousPlayPro http://facebook.com/SeriousPlayPro http://linkedin.com/company/seriousplaypro.com http://plus.google.com/+Seriousplaypro/ http://astore.amazon.com/seriousplay-20
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Introduction to LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - a Playful Tool for Your Challenges
- 1. markorillo.com LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® a Playful Tool for Your Challenges Marko Rillo @MarkoRillo
- 2. markorillo.com Freeform building exercise with virtual feedback round – alone or in a group • Grab a handful of LEGO® bricks and start fiddling with them – Use bricks to build a challenge you face personally or professionally – Or build anything that comes to your mind and hands while listening • Take a photo of your buildings and share: #LegoSeriousPlay @SeriousPlayPro
- 3. markorillo.com What is "Hand-mind connection" Homunculi of Natural History Museum of London • Artistic rendition of a "tiny man" - body parts are proportionate to its respective cortex areas in brain • Using your hands serves like a "search engine" of your mind • Fiddling with material objects gets your thoughts flowing Wilson (1998) The Hand: How its use shapes the brain, language and human culture. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679740473/?tag=seriousplay-20
- 5. markorillo.com Adults playing with bricks? For a diploma!?!?
- 6. markorillo.com Playfulness leads to better solutions "Opposite of play is not work, it is depression!" - Stuart Brown, National Institute for Play Photo credit: © Otto Bettmann/CORBIS Brown & Vaughan (2009) Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and …. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1583333339/?tag=seriousplay-20
- 7. markorillo.com Roots of LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen CEO and owner of LEGO Johan Roos Bart Victor
- 9. markorillo.com You might ask – why your office might use LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY®? • Just checking your exercise? • Have you managed to build already? – If yes then great – just keep on going – If not then now is utmost time to start • If you are in a group then observe what has started happening around you
- 10. markorillo.com LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® engages people “Lean Backward” meeting: a few participants engage “Lean Forward” meeting: most participants engage
- 11. markorillo.com We understand each other better Play is honest – it shows us things we did not know we knew Models simplify complexities of our work
- 12. markorillo.com You can remember metaphors more easily Photo credit: © LEGO® Imaginopedia for Skills Building, p. 10.
- 13. markorillo.com What do you need to carry out a workshop with LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® ? A group and a trained facilitator A set of LEGO bricks A challenge and enough time for work
- 14. markorillo.com While there are dedicated SERIOUSPLAY® sets, any bricks will do!
- 15. markorillo.com Types of challenges with LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® Short challenges 2-8h • Constructive discussions • Team building • Problem solving • Creating shared understanding • Unleashing creative thinking • (Job) interviews • Analysing product user requirements Complex challenges 8-40h or even longer • Strategy development and exploration, e.g. customer profiling, stakeholder mapping • Organizational development – resource, capability discussions • Innovation and product development – creative ideas into concrete concepts • Change management – facilitating and implementing changes and mergers • Discussion of team / organization values
- 16. markorillo.com Skills building before you start with full LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® tasks Some introductory skills building tasks to get the group in the flow
- 17. markorillo.com Core process of LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® 1. Posing a question 2. Construction 3. Sharing 4. Reflection
- 18. markorillo.com LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® application technique Presenting a challenge With the help of a facilitator Building a model Using bricks and imagination Giving meaning(s) Using metaphors
- 19. markorillo.com LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® application technique Telling a story To understand other team members Creating a landscape For sense-making in the team
- 20. markorillo.com LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® application technique Creating connections and building a system To understand relationships Generating principles To manage future Thinking, testing and play To develop scenarios
- 21. markorillo.com Remember the rules and etiquette of LEGO® SERIOUSPLAY® • Facilitator sets challenge and time • Follow the steps: – Build individually Share Reflect – Build collectively Share Reflect • The answer is in the system (kids who use anything they play with) • Ask questions about model, not about the person • No right-wrong but different perspectives (blind men and an elephant) • No bystanders nor freeloaders – everybody has a chance to explain and participate • Maintain the flow – make sure that everybody is engaged
- 22. markorillo.com Over to you! • Take a photo of your buildings and share it with: #LegoSeriousPlay to @SeriousPlayPro or @MarkoRillo • Add - what did you build, learn and what questions came up • Our community would be happy to engage in further discussions