Imagine a methodology that boosts your meetings towards an innovative process for enhancing innovation and business performance. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is developed based on research which shows that hands-on, minds-on learning produces a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the world and its possibilities. It deepens the reflection process and supports an effective dialogue – for everyone in the organization.

1. Showcase
Playing with purpose

4. ”You can discover more about a
person in an hour of play than in
a year of conversation”
-Plato

5. What is Lego Serious Play?
• Facilitated
• Thinking, communication & problem-solving technique
• For organizations, teams & individuals

7. The science behind Lego Serious Play
• Play
• Constructionism
• Hand-mind connection and flow
• Imagination
• Using metaphors
• Complex adaptive systems

9. The science behind Lego Serious Play
• Play
• Social bonding
• Emotional expression
• Cognitive development
• Constructive competition

11. The science behind Lego Serious Play
• Hand-mind connection
• Our hands are connected to between 70 & 80 % of our brain cells
• Intelligence grows from the interaction of the mind with the world
(Piaget)

13. The science behind Lego Serious Play
• Using metaphors
• Understand or experience one thing in terms of another thing
• A way to understand meaning in the world

15. When to use Lego Serious Play?
• the subject is complex and there is a need to grasp the bigger picture, find
connections and explore options and potential solutions
• it is important to reach decisions which everyone commits to and honors
after the meeting even though he or she does not agree 100%
• asking each team member or participant the same question results in
substantially different answers
• everyone in the group has an interest or stake in what is on the agenda
• it is important that everyone participates in the discussions and contributes
with his or her knowledge and opinions
• you want to increase team understanding and at the same time avoid
frustration

16. When to use Lego Serious Play?
• you would like to gain new learning, insights and new ways of thinking
• you want to deal with tough and complex issues in a constructive
atmosphere
• it is vital that participants speak their true feelings without intimidating
anyone or being intimidated
• you have a situation in which a few members tend to dominate the
discussions and you want to break that routine without offending anyone
• you have a group which feels meetings tend to be a waste of time
• your meetings or learning events tend to focus more on the messengers
than on the messages

22. Examples of Challenges

23. Future Success
1. Build a model which shows the road blocks to your immediate and
future success
2. Build a model describing what your future will look like without the
barriers
3. Build a model which shows what you need from others and yourself
to knock down the barriers to your success
4. Combine your models which will show how you will get support
from the team/group

24. Team Member
1. Build a model showing who you are on the team
• What do you bring to the team?
• What could you bring to the team?
• Build some of the functions that you carry out on the job, also include some
hidden aspects of you
2. Build an addition to your model that shows how you think others in
your team perceive you
3. Who are you at your best?
• Build an addition to your model showing your thoughts about this – what
characterizes you when you are at your best?

25. Team
1. Build an individual model showing how you perceive your team:
• Show what you believe your team is all about
• What is the spirit of the team?
• The feel of the team?
• The values of the team?
2. Build a shared model that shows what your team is all about
• What is the team’s shared perception of the team?
• What is the spirit and the ‘feel’ of the team?

26. Strengths and Weaknesses
1. Build a model showing the strengths of your Product, Team,
Organization, ...
2. Build a model describing how you can utilize the strengths
1. Build a modell showing the weaknesses of your Product, Team,
Organization, ...
2. Build a model describing how you can remove or compensate for
the weaknesses

27. The certified Facilitator
• Creates open-ended building challenges
• Gets the group’s dialogue to serve its purpose
• Makes the reflections and dialogue process easier
• Helps participants express themselves
• Asks clarifying questions
• Brings the materials

30. You are in good company...

31. Core oxygen4leadership Team
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Helena Demuynck
Founding Partner
Certified Executive Coach
Systemic Team Coach
Nicolas Joos de ter Beerst
Business Partner
Business Development
Project Coordination