Walter Vannini

Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for posting your experiences. Everyone should read your story.

I’m surprised that you recommend an hour skill-building. I’m sure I was told in training that it should be 2 hours!

Handling the talkative ones is just part of the job of being a facilitator. Doing the skills building right won’t get your participants obeying…[Read more]

Thanks very much Mark. I have seen the 1000 participant post, but not yours. 3 minutes, vision for a country – brilliant!

The conference I’m designing might begin by asking people to identify the challenges their industry faces. Capturing answers on gridcards (my version of post its…[Read more]

Sean – sure. Please let us know what kind of exercise you have in mind and what is the type of group that you have in mind.

There are lots of interesting case studies of running LSP sessions in large groups. You have probably already seen this:…[Read more]

Prima di tutto credo che bisogna essere prima facilitatori, poi imparare il metodo, per avere risultati di impatto per il cliente.
Un facilitatore professionale no si mette a vendere un metodo solo per dire che lo fa. In quel caso si certifica.

Peró …. e qualcuno lo deve dire un “peró” … forse c’é un valore a mantenere un album.

Penso al…[Read more]

Luc,

Just to confirm what the others have already said. I have used Lego Serious Play for nearly a decade now – in average 20-40 LSP sessions a year, but i have never gone to the client selling LSP. In most cases I even do not write LSP into my proposals. Clients find out about the bricks only at the last minute.

Usually the client describes me…[Read more]

Hi Luc

Just a quick comment from me. People don’t want LSP.

They also don’t want a meeting, workshop or awayday.

They want an outcome.

Focus discussion on understanding the outcome they desire, then once thats clear establish what tools, methods or processes are suitable for helping them get the outcome they desire.

I find people seem to value…[Read more]

Essere certificati non è necessario, ma solo consigliato. Un facilitatore certificato ha un’etica e una professionalità che emergono alla lunga. Essere certificati non implica che si è buoni facilitatori tout-court. Non credo serva un ordine né tanto meno un’autorità garante. Credo che debba essere il “mercato” (inteso come competizione tra migl…[Read more]

Essere certificati non è necessario, ma solo consigliato. Un facilitatore certificato ha un’etica e una professionalità che emerge alla lunga. Essere certificati non implica che si è buoni facilitatori tout-court. Non credo serva un ordine né tanto meno un’autorità garante. Credo che debba essere il “mercato” (inteso come competizione tra migl…[Read more]

Hi Luc,

The good news is you’re getting meetings, you’re doing demo’s and they are understanding and seeing value in the method… up to a point.

From what you said the real problem is taking that next step and showing how it can solve major strategic issues. If you can show that, then the other issue of the method being perceived as a toy…[Read more]

Balint, I think we all understand the challenge; we have all met people who are shortsighted and don’t want to invest. Believe me, Eastern Europe does not have a monopoly on shortsightedness. Wall Street in New York has proven time and again that it cannot see beyond the end of its next 3-month nose. So these are the people whose careers are going…[Read more]

Luc, I find terms like C-level quite confusing; still here’s a list of CAPRESE LSP references, where senior management have been involved (I’ll leave it to you to decide whether VP R&D EMEA in Honeywell ACS who reports to an Executive VP is senior or junior to VP R&D Aerolia who reports directly to a…[Read more]

I haven’t done any LSP workshops (certified in dec ’14), so I cannot refer to those… Numbers can help, but I would already be grateful to have one or couple business cases in which C-level decision makers used the method successfully to decide on strategic topics.

I haven’t done any LSP workshops (certified in dec ’14), si I cannot refer to those. Numbers can help, but I would already be grateful to have one or couple business cases in which C-level decision makers used the method successfully to decide on strategic topics.

I cold heartedly agree with Eli, don’t “fall into the numbers trap”. The way I work around this is by bringing up all the workshops I have conducted in the past, with or without LSP. LSP is a tool, and a great one… but the secret is the facilitator. Also depending on the type of clients you are dealing with, I learned so far that some will catch…[Read more]

Eli, I understand what you say and I agree with it 100%, but sadly the market in Eastern Europe ask for exact numbers (most of the time). Thinking in short term, profit maximalization, cutting spending wherever they can, almost 0 imagination, employees don’t matter, 0time for LEGO. It’s crazy… The tendency is getting better. In numbers: 1st year…[Read more]

Guys don’t fall into the numbers trap! What about keeping the company in business, rather than going bankrupt? What about creating a context in which products are developed more efficiently? Having a more efficient R & D department might not affect your bottom line in the short term, but may help your organisation to develop products and services…[Read more]