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Balint replied to the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Hi Gabriel,
Suggestion of Bruce worked me just fine. Few weeks ago I was in similar situation like You, just different topic. My client reduced the time from 6 to less than 3hours, which was clearly not enough. What I did was kind of a show-off, I pointed out during the workshop what a longer facilitation can do, and why it would be…[Read more]
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Balint replied to the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Hello Alan!
To be honest, I’m also not a fan of Duplo bricks. I was thinking the same, but users proove me wrong time to time. Although there are few ones like you described, most of them are using the animals/ bricks quite often and for complex models too. The animals/ windows are quite useful, so I will keep them in the set.
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Gabriel replied to the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Marko thank you very much for your input… this helps me tremendously. I will compare your planning with mine and make proper adjustments. Maybe the planning just might convince them to take one day. In fact I am meeting with the team leader tomorrow to work on the planning.
Bruce, your second point is quite valid, in fact when I told my client…[Read more]
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Alan McShane started the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Hi All,
I´d be interested hear views and experiences on the use of Duplo and particularly the pre-built bricks (such as the animals). Every now and again, someone “builds” a made-to-measure metaphor in no time by just picking up one or two duplo bricks and voila – while the rest are digging deeper with their hands looking for answers on the…[Read more]
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Bruce Scharlau replied to the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Gabriel
I agree with what Marko has said and would only add two comments:
First, the firm probably doesn’t appreciate how useful LSP can be, and that is why they only gave you 4 hours.
Second, as they don’the know how useful this will be make sure they go away with ‘actions’ to implement and a subtle note of how you would take this further…[Read more]
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Marko Rillo replied to the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
The best you can do at this stage is some meticulous planning. Start from the very first minutes and write down all steps that you are planning:
– Introduction to the day by company representative (15-20 minutes)
– Introduction by you to LSP methodology, rules etc (10-15 min)
– Warm up skills building exercises (20-25 min)
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Gabriel replied to the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
That’s my concern as well Marko. In fact when they first asked me to do this, I was immediately thinking of 1 day. When I mentioned this they frowned! On top of that the group will be composed of about 20 people.
Since I am new at this and this would be only my second workshop, what arguments can you suggest I use to convince them otherwise? Or…[Read more]
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Marko Rillo replied to the topic Long-term LSP supported Change Management Case Studies/Examples in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Dieter,
I believe that longer sessions happen quite frequently. In SeriousPlayPro community survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/seriousplaypro we had a question: “What types of workshops do you deliver with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?” One of the answer options was very similar: “Continuous sessions with the same client over a long period”. This r…[Read more]
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Marko Rillo replied to the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Probably yes, because what you would need in this situation is probably quite extensive exchange on those ad hoc individual approaches that those individual employees have taken so far.
The main concern that I would have – is the time enough for this type of discussion given lots of diverging thoughts about the sector directions among the…[Read more]
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Gabriel replied to the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Marko
thanks for your reply and thoughts. The key word here is approach.
In fact my client is not so much looking at the workshop to help develop a sector strategy per say, but to think of the best approach or framework or mechanism, under which one or more sector strategies can be developed.
This stems from the fact that many of my clients…[Read more]
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Marko Rillo replied to the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Gabriel – that is very interesting assignment you have been invited to assist. It goes beyond the core application of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in trying to take steps in determining particular strategic choices for the firm. Hence – I see two potential scenarios for you.
One possibility is to frame the approach by using the Business Model Canvas…[Read more]
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Marcos Cedillo replied to the topic Activity suggestions for LSP Workshop for people that doesn't believe in method in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Thank you Marko, Debbie, Patrizia, Sebastian and Christopher!!
all your comments were useful for me, let me tell you that the session last month went great!
They were 10 participants and half of them knew each other and the other half didn’t (even though they work in same company). I went through the classic warm up, and included in my workshop…[Read more] -
Gabriel started the topic LSP workshop for sector specialization strategy in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Has anyone used LSP to help in sector specialization strategy? It turns out that a client of mine, in the small business banking sector, is looking for support to go from being a sector agnostic bank to sector focused bank. For this they have asked me to facilitate a 4-hour workshop with LSP with the goal of determining the best approach to become…[Read more]
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Dieter Reuther started the topic Long-term LSP supported Change Management Case Studies/Examples in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Hi all,
I was wondering whether there are any examples or case studies where LSP was used for long-term change management initiatives involving teams at different locations, growing and evolving teams, implementing new processes and tools.
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Marko Rillo started the topic How to run 2-3 day workshop with a local IT association in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
A post from Jessica Low:
Hi there,
I was trained last year and still rather new to the facilitation and methodology. I was presented with a business opportunity recently with a local IT association that runs on annual membership subscription to various organisations.
The association is interested to promote the methodology to its members, with…[Read more]
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Yla Eason replied to the topic Building exercise suggestions for short LSP session in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for your reply. I remember in classes, Per stressed the importance of the skills building exercises. I am in New York and these students are from Korea, so,indeed, I can’t make any lego-playing assumptions.
Your insight is right on point!
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Yla Eason replied to the topic Building exercise suggestions for short LSP session in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Hi Sebastian,
Thanks for your proposed career questions. I see how I can incorporate these suggestions. While I do not think I will have an assistant, I think I can artfully combine your ‘steps/condition’ suggestion with the ‘ideal career’ in the two-hour tile slot.
Your reply is much appreciated!
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Bruce Scharlau replied to the topic Building exercise suggestions for short LSP session in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
I’ve done similar short sessions with students. Given universities are international places, and that there is ALWAYS someone who’s not used Lego before, I strongly urge you to not skip the bridge building exercise. This also provides the transition period between when they are coming from whatever they did before to settle down to the serious…[Read more]
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Sebastian Simanjuntak replied to the topic Building exercise suggestions for short LSP session in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
Hi Yla..
Done this before.
A way to save time is to very quickly build a tower or bridge to get familiarity with Lego. As they are college students I would even skip this part and actually make the career model as the warm up exercise.
If you do do the bridge/tower then ask them to modify it to reflect their ideal career.
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Yla Eason started the topic Building exercise suggestions for short LSP session in the forum Serious Play Pro Forum 9 years, 8 months ago
I am conducting LSP session for 13 college students who are participating in a short-term internship program. The goal of the session is to help them become better aware of themselves and find their true career passion. The issue is the session is only two-hours long and I will be using the exploration kit.
I will start with the tower building…[Read more] - Load More