Jaime

Jim,

Welcome to Serious Play Pro community. Can you please elaborate a little bit further – what is your context where you would like to use LSP? What is the type of company? What level of management? What is

You might use some principles of appreciative inquiry (discover & dream phase), related to Per’s suggestion. Instead of a taboo or a myth, you could focus on the positive side: what makes the new situation tick?

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

Dear Alan – the experience that Eli conveyed was a workshop where I was the LSP facilitator. At the time, his boss had given me a remit to “sell” the change process to his senior management team, using an

Hi Alan, I agree with Eli that your gut feeling is the right choice… I always try to work with a clear question that has various answers, depending on whom you ask. With this diversity of possible answers LSP

hi Alan
A quick note to follow up on some of the great input from Eli, Peter and Marko. Indeed time seems to be an issue, as well as the fact that the new system is not perfect. If you decide to go for LSP, I

Hi Alan,
Your gut feeling is no doubt the right one in this case.
I another case, some fifteen years ago, where I was the simple employee and an experienced workshop facilitator was engaged to help the DEC

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

Hi Alan
Eli’s concern regarding your only having 3 hours is a HUGE concern, and even more so if you start with a skills exercise to get them going. Surely sincere commitment is worth whatever time it takes? I’d

Hi Alan,
I completely agree with Marko’s comments. I often tell the story of how I became so impressed with LSP. Our boss was exactly like your client: he wanted to make some changes and he thought he could use

Alan,

Sounds very interesting. This might turn out well, but I would be slightly concerned about your brief (“new system is far from perfect”). Hence – it might depend on the internal dynamics of the team –

I added a new post on preparing Landscape Kit with the help of other Lego Education Kits. Hope it helps and gives some valuable ideas: http://seriousplaypro.com/2013/08/25/diy-lego-serious-play-kit/

Hi Per,

Thanks a lot for the info! I’ll try my luck…

Best,
Andreas

hi Andreas

Have you tried to reach out to Eli de Friend (eli@caprese.org) and Joyce Miller (joyce@caprese.org) in Aubonne, near Lausanne?

Good luck

Per

Hi, I have the same issue. I have a Landscape/identity kit which I find to not be enough for large workshops. I tend to buy Duplos and and pieces from other sets where available. For animals I find using plastic