A team building activity with LEGO serious play method (LSP)

1. Team Identity – Team Thinking and Team Behavior
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Mailer Team

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Team building with - LEGO Serious Play Method -

3. Lean Forward Meeting Lean Backward Meeting
PRO-Active Teams
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4. Agenda
Part 1: Introduction and framing
Part 2: Warm-up to LSP
Part 3: Core Identity & Feedback
Part 4: Aspirational team life
Part 5: Debrief & Close
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5. A PRO-Active Team
• Makes everyone STEP UP TO THE PLATE
• Takes advantage of people’s DIFFERENCES
• Has a high COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
• Plays to people’s different LEARNING STYLES
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6. Warm-up: Challenge #1
Open the bag and find the black plate and
the LEGO mini figure
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Build a Tower
• Start with the black plate
• Build individually
• Finish with LEGO figure on top
• Make it entirely as you want

7. The facilitator asks the question, you have to
answer by building a metaphorical story
You ALL tell the rest of the group the
story in your model
You ALL build individually and give it meaning
while you build
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Questions, insights, reflecAons,
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The LEGO Serious Play method
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8. Stepping up to the plate
Stepping up to the plate = You ALL build, You ALL share
your stories = 100% participation 100% of the time
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9. Warm-up: Challenge #2
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10. The ground rules for LEGO Serious Play
• DON'T have meetings with
yourself. Just START building
• TRUST your hands. Let them pick the
bricks they want
• When you tell your story the
meaning will emerge
• DON‘T get bogged down in the
design
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11. Warm-up: Challenge #3
Take your model as it is or modify it so you can use it to tell the group
about one of your personal strengths and/or skills that you consider
useful bringing to the teams you are involved in, BECAUSE if you do SO
the team will produce better and faster results than if you DIDN’T bring
this strength in play
Don’t take any of your models apart. When done, wait for further instructions
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12. Reflections…
How well would the strengths in this group play out in
a teamwork situation?
• What would “we” be really good at?
• What might be a challenge for “us”?
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13. TEAM STRENGHTS
Knowing your own team strengths, which team strengths have
you noticed in others that complements yours? It can be in
this group and in your work at Seedbox in general.
Build a model representing such a team strength.
Build as many as you can within the time given.
Don’t take any of your models apart. When done, wait for further
instructions
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14. Are you ready for give/accept feedback?
Each person will build something about other team member
(give feedback).
Share the feedback without say to whom you are giving
the feedback.
Give the model to your partner.
Don’t take any of your models apart. When done, wait for further
instructions
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15. Aspirational Team Life
Think about your team…what do you really need to have in
your “team life” to be successful as team?
• Build it…
• Share it…
Don’t take any of your models apart. When done, wait for further
instructions
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16. Build the Mailer team…
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17. Reflections…
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18. Meeting/Activity feedback…
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19. Open questions…
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20. Thank you
LEGO Serious Play method
One way to get the work done and
get “Hard Fun”
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