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I was just referring back to a workshop I ran in South Africa for the Good Financial Governance programme of GIZ (German International Cooperation) and saw that they have written quite a nice summary. While we didn’t use LSP for the whole workshop, it is nice for once to see the client explicitly appreciating the use of the methodology […] View
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    Eli De Friend posted a new activity comment 12 years, 10 months ago

    Hi there,

    I thought I would reply, before you receive any comments from any of the interested parties. The LSP Facilitator Qualification is given by the Master Trainers who used to deliver the official facilitator training offered by The LEGO Company. The programme may have been improved since moving to Open Source, but you can be guaranteed that…[Read more]

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    Eli De Friend wrote a new post 13 years, 3 months ago

    An online survey is now available for all facilitators to submit to their workshop participants, both past and present. It is hosted on one of the better free survey sites (sogosurvey.com).
    Why?
    In 2008, the

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    Eli De Friend commented on the post, LSP-Powered Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on Energy Efficiency Policy in Indonesia 13 years, 3 months ago

    Dear Sebastian,

    I saw your comment come in at the beginning of July, but was unable to give it the attention it deserved before now. Your comments regarding participants’ apprehension, hierarchical dominance,

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic Co-creating a brand using LSP in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 4 months ago

    Hmmm. I’m not a Mar/Comm/PR consultant, so I would never profess to advise on specific criteria for that vertical segment. As a management consultant, I would be looking at:
    – the “real” motivation of the key

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic Co-creating a brand using LSP in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Alina,
    I can’t think of a client, off the top of the hat, who has completely developed a brand using LSP. At the University of Lugano (or Università della Svizzera Italiana) LSP has been a used in the Masters

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic Certification in Australia in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Luke,
    You are lucky to be in Sydney. Denise Meyerson of MCI is based in Sydney and offers training in LSP. I don’t know whether she offers “certification” as such. In the open source model anyone can

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic workshop on change in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Carlos,
    You might find it a worthwhile investment to interview a representative of the workers to ask what seem to be the major concerns of his/her colleagues.

    The client might not have any budget for your

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic workshop on change in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 6 months ago

    Dear Carlos, you mention “blue collar” workers. The only time I had a genuine “blue collar” worker, who was an assembly line team leader, in an LSP workshop, the results were very surprising.
    When asked to

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic workshop on change in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 6 months ago

    Dear Carlos and Walter,
    The design I proposed is just standard. It’s what we should all be doing all of the time.

    The political power comes from the sponsor, not the facilitator. The sponsor has brought the

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic workshop on change in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Carlos,
    By focussing on the individual, you will be missing out on a lot of the power that LSP can deliver.
    You might want to discuss with your client a slightly different approach.
    1. the mandatory building

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    Eli De Friend commented on the post, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY and Business Models – Part 2 13 years, 9 months ago

    Hey Guys, Thanks for sharing :-)
    I think it was really important that Rory mentioned that his team only concentrated on the areas of the Canvas, where they felt they were weak. Aesthetically, it’s nice to have a

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic Business Development in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 9 months ago

    Continuation of the discussion with Lauren, now with a focus more specifically about the feasibility of using LSP in the international development context….

    Lauren: I suppose that I’m using Lego Serious Play

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    Eli De Friend started the forum topic Business Development in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 9 months ago

    On many occasions LSP facilitators have suggested that the community should be a place to share two types of knowledge.
    – case studies or references (who used LSP where and how)
    – business development (who sold

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    Eli De Friend replied to the forum topic Business Development in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 13 years, 9 months ago

    The following text is a slightly edited version of a couple of questions asked by Lauren Hinthorne who is currently researching methods of visualisation in the international development context and my

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    Eli De Friend wrote a new post 13 years, 9 months ago

    ThumbnailCase study: Using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in a multi-cultural, multi-lateral stakeholder engagement context

    GIZ/PAKLIM and DANIDA/EINCOPS are development cooperation programmes respectively funded by the German

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    Eli De Friend commented on the post, LSP-Powered Stakeholder Consultation Workshop on Energy Efficiency Policy in Indonesia 13 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Lauren, Congratulations on joining the community. A lot of work that we do is in international development. LSP clients include UNDP, UN-CWGER, GIZ, DANIDA, PREMAnet. UNEP were interested, but decided they

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    Eli De Friend created the event Building Project Success Through Effective Stakeholder Management 14 years, 10 months ago

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    Eli De Friend wrote a new post 14 years, 10 months ago

    ThumbnailSeriousplaypro Community Governance The Seriousplaypro Community Governance Task Force made a draft proposal for a governance structure and decision-making process (one might consider this to be a “Constitution”) that was amended and adopted at the meeting in Paris on 28th January 2011. The decision was taken to move forward with the implementation of this governance system for

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    Eli De Friend posted on the forum topic Has anyone here been involved in the "Agile Software Development" movement? in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans: 15 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Brian, I have a friend and ex-colleague, François Bachmann, who is a Scrum master, was always interested in LSP, but never made the link that you have seen between the Agile approach and LSP. The firm we used to work for wasquite traditional. He left because they would not support Agile methods at a

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    Eli De Friend wrote a new post 15 years, 2 months ago

    This description of the vision and mission of the evolving SeriousPlayPro community was developed through the collective work of a group of LEGO Serious Play practitioners who gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland during 27-28 September 2010, as a follow-up to the initial work carried out in Billund, Denmark, on 14 April 2010 The Full Story of SeriousPlayPro Community

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