• Hello everyone!

    The premise: I recently went to a workshop that encouraged people to ask stupid questions. So, I have been starting asking stupid questions and build on them.

    So, despite being engaged with the bricks by 5 years already, I have just realised that I could not find THE official definition of LSP.

    There are amazing definition out…[Read more]

  • Simon Horan posted an update in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Forum 10 years, 4 months ago

    Looking to use LSP in an international conference of 150 to 200 people in China – any previous experience of do’s, don’ts, avoids, musts etc. gratefully received

    • Hi Simon, I am curious about your challenge. Here are some of my questions: Is this a conference or a workshop? If it’s a conference, how will you be using LSP? Will you be demonstrating the methodology or do you have specific business objectives to address? Will all 150 conference participants be taking part in the LSP activity? How many…[Read more]

    • Hi Simon. I agree with Eli. Its very important to understand the overall output desired. If it is a reasonably complex question then you need a trained facilitator and assistant facilitators for every 8 to 12 pax. Alternatively train a person at each table as a facilitator for the day. I have done both. Just did a workshop on collaboration and…[Read more]

    • Simon, adding to the above (with which I am perfectly aligned), my experience with large groups, whether it is an intro to LSP or an actual delivery, is that music should be avoided, relatively small groups (6 per table) makes it easier to align, that sharing rounds are shorter, skills building is as always important, and finally that each…[Read more]

  • How would you deliver LSP taster session in 3 hours? anyone had similar experience?

    • hi Dr. Abeer,

      How many participants will be there? Depending on the number and your goal, you can try different exercises.

      Always begin with the tower/bridge challenge. And then move towards discovering the metaphore.

      You can try with the duck building if you want them to understand the particularity of each participant. Or you can try the…[Read more]

    • As Patricia has already pointed out – there are lots of different applications out there for short interventions. It depends greatly on your location, the type and size of your group. If you would fill us in about whom do you plan to deliver the taster session then we would be happy to brainstorm with you how to make it work.

      • Many thanks Marko
        I will have about 25-30 people for 1 hour
        any ideas?
        thanks for the reply

        • Hi, Dr. Abeer. Not too much time. It’s always important to help the group get used to the bricks, through building the tower or the bridge. Then, you might make them build a free model and one of the models from the booklet. And that’s almost it, with an hour.

          Good luck!

        • With this size of a group and this amount of time I would give a short introduction and make every person play with the contents of a window exploration bag. You can choose to put people in groups of 4/5 and make them do some small excercises like building a tower to experience ownership, building small metaphors using a same starting point and do…[Read more]

          • Am with Wiro on this. in one hour, do a quick tower, followed by the explain this, and then something a bit personal or relevant to the theme. Make certain you have time, 15 min or so for a bit of discussion and sharing of how LSP works in companies

    • The Think With Your Hands workshop was designed to be a 3-hour experience, based on seeing groups get a lot out of the smaller format:
      http://www.thinkwithyourhands.com .

      but in one hour, there are more impactful LEGO interventions (not really LSP) – the innovation ducks are always a winner; and I have heard great reviews of Per’s presentations at the…[Read more]

    • Quick reply, the approach I have used at Pegasus and other conferences is a robust skills building followed by a relevant AT1 challenge, and then a bit of supporting theory and finally case examples.
      It is very much following the experience – explain principle
      Happy to share more, if or when needed

  • Per, I am in Taiwan now. I am afraid I can’t join your workshop in Korea. I heard from Peisan you are very expert in LSP. Is there any resource(book or article) you may suggest me to read about designing workshop by LSP?

  • I just did a back-end upgrade of the SeriousPlayPro.com groups and forums with a revised software that provides additional forum functionality. I would appreciate your replies – if you find it intuitive and useful. If there are some troubles then kindly let me know.

    About the community popularity – during the past month the SeriousPlayPro.com…[Read more]

  • In February?
    Per, you mean the Feb-2014/Seoul T3 training? Then…

    Jim,
    mind if I ask where you are? When you’re in Korea, you can ask me more detailed information if you want.

    I’m now living in Seoul,

  • hi Jim
    LEGO does not as such authorize any programs, they have looked into how they could, but have not yet found the right approach. The program that I offer is the one endorsed and developed by the Association

  • Alan McShane replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 11 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

  • Thank for all your greeting to me, as freshman in this community. I have used puzzle for years when I conduct training program about Team Building and Project Management in corporate. I am interested Serious Play

  • Hi Jim

    Adding my voice to the great posts by Pete and Marko: If you are to dive into some of Johans writing then see if you can find “The next common sense”, he wrote it together with Michael Lissack, or

  • Jim
    I would like to add that I see the role of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in business strategy formulation as adding necessary understanding to traditional approaches. So, we’re not dismissing Michael Porter and his

  • 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

  • Is there any guide or example for facilitating Strategic Thinking or Strategic Planning in corporate ?

  • Wiro Kuipers replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 11 years ago

    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?

  • Alan McShane replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 11 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

  • Joyce Miller replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 11 years ago

    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

  • Wiro Kuipers replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 11 years ago

    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

  • Alan McShane replied to the forum topic Change Management Approach in the group Group logo of Serious Play ForumSerious Play Fans 11 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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