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    Alan McShane replied to the topic Team Building exercises in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Given they are from different companies…

    Definition of the “Ideal Team Member” and then turn the stories into stories about specific behaviours. They can then reflect on how the measure / select / train talent like this …. depending on the profile of the attendees. Indeed they can reflect on whether they are personally the ideal or…[Read more]

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    Alan McShane replied to the topic Non-certified facilitators in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Hi Irene,

    A worry shared is a worry halved ; )

    Yes you are right. Bad execution has an impact on us all. That said, the accreditation does not guarantee good execution. As Rodrigo says, it comes from learning, sharing, failing, improving, experience etc.

    Alan.

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    Alan McShane replied to the topic Non-certified facilitators in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 7 years ago

    Hi Irene,

    As I understand it, anyone can use Lego bricks in their offerings as long as they do not infringe copyright or trademark rules or make it seem that they represent Lego in any shape or form and that applies to LSP offerings and non-LSP offerings. See here for guidelines on Trademark…[Read more]

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    Alan McShane replied to the topic Keep track on time for skills building in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 9 years ago

    Hi Sofie,
    A couple of suggestions:
    1) Limit the number of bricks for the tower building. give them the bottom and the top and tell them to choose only ten more. This will focus the building and might help to focus the stories too.
    2) Give specific instructions (for example “tells us what you have built and what it says about you”) and stick to…[Read more]

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    Alan McShane wrote a new post 9 years ago

    If you want to discuss this case then please refer to the Considiom blog where this was originally posted.

    So here’s the question. Can you gamify Lego Serious Play? Would you want? How might it impact the f

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    Alan McShane wrote a new post 10 years ago

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    “I  appreciate all the work and effort you put into today’s session with my team. It was without doubt original and innovative and above all, it fulfilled my objectives. You can consider me to be a Lego

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    Alan McShane wrote a new post 10 years ago

    ThumbnailSome time ago Carlos Hernandez of Dos Abrazos – dosabrazos.com and I did a Demo with a client here in Madrid, Spain and the flow of the whole meeting illustrates perfectly the power of the Lego Serious Play

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    Alan McShane wrote a new post 10 years ago

    ThumbnailIn January of this year we had unique experience of rolling out a series workshops to all 180 staff of one of our client’s production units. The objective was to explore ways in which the plant could perform

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    Alan McShane commented on the post, The most powerful, well renowned facilitation technique in the world? 10 years ago

    Great Idea Sean! I did something similar here in Madrid although I widened the net a little to deal with “Serious Play” in the broader sense and we already have two under our belt and they have been great sessions

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    Alan McShane replied to the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 10 years ago

    Thanks for the comments and good to see you both have or have had similar thoughts and frustrations from time to time.

    Balint – Your right that they prove us wrong regularly so they need to be there. Just comes down to observation and facilitation and reading if they are being “lazy as a dog” or not (had to get that one in)!

    Eli – I fully agree…[Read more]

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    Alan McShane replied to the topic The Ultimate LSP demo! in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 10 years ago

    Hi Patrizia,

    Here`s a brief outline for a demo I have done a few times which works (at least for me):

    1) One 2×1 red transparent
    2) Two 1×4 any color but same as 3)
    3) One 2×4 any color
    4) One 2×3 curved any color

    These make a nice alternative to the duck bricks (at least for me) and in simple terms the challenges start off with animals, then…[Read more]

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    Alan McShane started the topic Duplo or No Duplo, that is the Question … in the forum Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Pro Forum 10 years 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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    Alan McShane commented on the post, Overview of the New Lego Serious Play site 10 years ago

    Thanks for Sharing Marko!

    I don’t see any reference to the Open Source doc nor that concept (though I might have missed it) … Might there be a change in policy there? Instead, rightly so, the page focuses

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    Alan McShane replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 12 years ago

    To close this one out …. In the end – for all the reasons above – I avoided the change decision and the process already underway and instead looked at desired and undesired behavior when faced with difficult

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    Alan McShane replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 12 years ago

    Many thanks to all for the comments and ideas. It is truly inspirational to get input from you all! This is one of the reasons I love LSP and the community!

    Joyce, I will check out Change-Pro. I have a feeling

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    Alan McShane replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 12 years ago

    Many thanks to you all …. I think the fact that I put this out there is for all the reasons you have mentioned and I knew I was being asked to do a difficult job – sell change! It is an NGO where the democratic

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    Alan McShane started the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 12 years ago

    Hi All,

    I have to do a 3 hour session with a group of 12 people on Change Management and the brief is to make them understand that the new system (albeit imperfect) is here to stay and that accepting the change

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    Alan McShane replied to the forum topic Imagination Exercise in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 12 years ago

    Thanks for this Omar! This is more food for thought and I like the approach a lot! Going to see what I can do with it.

    Agile I have only touched on but the more I read and see, the more I like it.

    Regards,

    Alan.

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    Alan McShane replied to the forum topic Imagination Exercise in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 12 years ago

    Thanks for this insight Patricia.

    Yes it does have to be delivered well. In my case it was delivered well – in stages but I think I found the question at the end asking which one we found most intuitive to be

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    Alan McShane started the forum topic Imagination Exercise in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 12 years ago

    Hi all,

    I am working on a workshop to explore group creativity. I have lots of ideas but one of the exercises I was thinking of trying is the Imagination Exercise (Jones Go-Kart). I have to admit I have never

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