Imaginopedia for Skills Building - The Brochure that was Included in early LEGO Serious Play Starter Kits prior to 2010. The Starter Kits were then square-shaped. Since 2010, the LEGO Group redesigned their booklets that they include with LEGO Serious Play starter kits and now those kits include a slightly modified brochure called "Imaginopedia for Core Process"
LEGO® Serious Play® — For Managers.
Solve Your Business Challenges Playfully & with Fun!
Condensed version of my LSP presentation for managers & C-level.
LEGO® Serious Play® is a structured, facilitated method. It answers questions rephrasing the business topics. The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. It is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative ideas.
Serious Work How to Facilitate Meetings and Workshops Using the LEGO® SERIOUS...Marko Rillo
Free preview of the book "Serious Work How to Facilitate Meetings and Workshops Using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method"
Authors: Sean Blair and Marko Rillo. Published in 2016 by ProMeet.
LEGO® Serious Play® is thriving. How is it that a child's toy, has become a serious strategy tool used by some of the worlds best-known organizations? And what might be the relevance of this method in your work? LEGO® Serious Play® is the result of 15 years development. A powerful method to solve problems, explore ideas and achieve objectives based on management theory using a toy.
Serious Work enables readers to understand what LEGO® Serious Play® is and how it works. This practical and well-designed workbook helps people have better meetings; it shows how LEGO® Serious Play® is used in five common kinds of meeting and workshop, enabling improvement in communication, collaboration and outcomes.
It is intended for people who run meetings. Leaders, managers, facilitators, and coaches who are seeking ways to help teams work-together well, will find this book especially helpful.
Readers who are interested in or responsible for coaching, problem-solving, visioning, team building or strategy will find the ideas challenge conventional meeting norms (thankfully) and offer a different and better way to achieve great meeting outcomes.
The book offers case studies, step-by-step guides, and templates from a range of common applications that you can download and adapt to your own needs.
Our hope is this book gives you the knowledge and confidence to try basic LEGO® Serious Play® techniques before learning more.
The book features advice and case studies from nine other respected LEGO® Serious Play® facilitators from countries including USA, Singapore, Sweden, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, and China. List of co-authors: Patrizia Bertini, Eli De Friend, Mercedes Hoss, Camilla Jensen, Oliver Knapman, Kim Pong Lim, Kristina Nyzell, Dieter Reuther and Maria Stashenko.
This is a preview of the book that was published in 2016. Purchase your full paperback copy via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0995664706/?tag=seriousplay-20 or in eBook format directly via Serious.Global website: http://serious.global/learn/book/
Attend the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator certification training with the authors of the book. Marko Rillo training: http://markorillo.com/lego-serious-play/serious-play-training/ or Sean Blair training: http://serious.global/learn/
The Science of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - Play, Construction, ImaginationMarko Rillo
The Science of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - Play, Construction, Imagination (2006) The Lego Group / Executive Discovery Llc.
24-page brochure that summarises the early research carried out by the Imagination Lab Foundation that laid the foundation for the further development of LEGO Serious Play Methodology that is freely available as Open Source tool under Creative Commons 3.0 licence.
LEGO® Serious Play® — For Managers.
Solve Your Business Challenges Playfully & with Fun!
Condensed version of my LSP presentation for managers & C-level.
LEGO® Serious Play® is a structured, facilitated method. It answers questions rephrasing the business topics. The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. It is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative ideas.
Serious Work How to Facilitate Meetings and Workshops Using the LEGO® SERIOUS...Marko Rillo
Free preview of the book "Serious Work How to Facilitate Meetings and Workshops Using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method"
Authors: Sean Blair and Marko Rillo. Published in 2016 by ProMeet.
LEGO® Serious Play® is thriving. How is it that a child's toy, has become a serious strategy tool used by some of the worlds best-known organizations? And what might be the relevance of this method in your work? LEGO® Serious Play® is the result of 15 years development. A powerful method to solve problems, explore ideas and achieve objectives based on management theory using a toy.
Serious Work enables readers to understand what LEGO® Serious Play® is and how it works. This practical and well-designed workbook helps people have better meetings; it shows how LEGO® Serious Play® is used in five common kinds of meeting and workshop, enabling improvement in communication, collaboration and outcomes.
It is intended for people who run meetings. Leaders, managers, facilitators, and coaches who are seeking ways to help teams work-together well, will find this book especially helpful.
Readers who are interested in or responsible for coaching, problem-solving, visioning, team building or strategy will find the ideas challenge conventional meeting norms (thankfully) and offer a different and better way to achieve great meeting outcomes.
The book offers case studies, step-by-step guides, and templates from a range of common applications that you can download and adapt to your own needs.
Our hope is this book gives you the knowledge and confidence to try basic LEGO® Serious Play® techniques before learning more.
The book features advice and case studies from nine other respected LEGO® Serious Play® facilitators from countries including USA, Singapore, Sweden, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, and China. List of co-authors: Patrizia Bertini, Eli De Friend, Mercedes Hoss, Camilla Jensen, Oliver Knapman, Kim Pong Lim, Kristina Nyzell, Dieter Reuther and Maria Stashenko.
This is a preview of the book that was published in 2016. Purchase your full paperback copy via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0995664706/?tag=seriousplay-20 or in eBook format directly via Serious.Global website: http://serious.global/learn/book/
Attend the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator certification training with the authors of the book. Marko Rillo training: http://markorillo.com/lego-serious-play/serious-play-training/ or Sean Blair training: http://serious.global/learn/
The Science of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - Play, Construction, ImaginationMarko Rillo
The Science of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - Play, Construction, Imagination (2006) The Lego Group / Executive Discovery Llc.
24-page brochure that summarises the early research carried out by the Imagination Lab Foundation that laid the foundation for the further development of LEGO Serious Play Methodology that is freely available as Open Source tool under Creative Commons 3.0 licence.
Using LEGO Serious Play to boost collective creativity & increase trustPatrizia Bertini
UX is a team effort: So many different skills, points of views, and expertise is needed to deliver best-in-class services and products. But to do this a team must function well, with members trusting each other and communicating smoothly, overcoming differences and diverse point of views. In this session we'll use LEGO Serious Play to think creatively in groups, share ideas, innovate, and co-create the next winning experiences through efficient interaction, participation, collaboration, and a shared goals.
LegoViews: a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ based interviewing technique.Patrizia Bertini
LegoViews is an innovative journalistic interviewing technique developed by Patrizia Bertini, Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ facilitator. Starting from the theoretical framework of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™, the LegoView technique allows new ideas and new concepts to emerge, providing original and new insights about the topics at hand. The Lego-interviewing technique has been tested in highly sensitive contexts, including Palestine, Israel and the Occupy LSX movement, and it has also been used to provide new insights on specific concepts, like art, creativity, colour and architecture by involving artists, architects, professionals and thinkers.
The presentation was given during the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ Certified facilitators' Annual Meeting in Billund (Denmark) on April 7th 2013.
The presentations draws from LSP workshops' and Lego-interviews' experiences to present similarities and differences and to highlight the high potential of a creative and constructive approach both to elicit new meanings and perspectives and to create new meanings. A final comparison between LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ and LegoViews completes the presentation, summarising more than 3 years' work and research in the field.
Lego Serious Play & Business Model CanvasJan Peeters
I made a report on the Lego Serious Play workshop I organized together with Flanders DC. We used the Lego Serious Play method to deliver a business model canvas for an innovative carpet.
Introduction to LEGO SERIOUS PLAY with Natalie SuttonNatalie Sutton
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem solving technique used by teams, individuals and organisations. Natalie Sutton is a certified facilitator and explains the process in this presentation.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Open Source Guide Issued by LEGO GroupMarko Rillo
LEGO has decided to allow everyone to use LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology. You do not need to pay for it. It is as simple as: “1) You use, 2) you develop, 3) you pass it on to anybody else to use under the same terms.“
Anybody can do what they like with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® as long as they refer to original LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Open-source document and give exactly the same credit for the next developers.
"You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than you can from a lifetime of conversation" - Plato
Imagine what we get from playing 4 hours!
Lego® Serious Play® is an efficient tool for insights exploration, training, business or HR actions.
LEGO® Serious Play®. How To Solve Your Business Challenges PlayfullyMichael Tarnowski
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is a structured and facilitated workshop method for strategic decision making and problem resolution in business environments.
LSP answers questions rephrasing the business topics. The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. LSP is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative ideas.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Imagination & Creativity for the BusinessPatrizia Bertini
Lego Serious Play is a creative, imaginative and story-telling based approach that since 2002 has been successfully adopted by businesses ad organisations all around the world.
LSP has proved to be an effective solution for team building, strategy, co-creation, concept, conflict resolution…
And its efficacy can be tracked back to the key theories that have been included in the development and formalisation of LSP: from management, Psychology of play, Imagination, Embodied cognition, Metaphors, constructionism… They are all perfectly integrated in the Lego Serious Play experience and deliver unexpected results efficiently. This presentation tells who adopted this approach and the whys.
Slides from my talk about sketchnoting at WebExpo Prague 2010.
The video of the talk is now online: http://webexpo.net/talk/sketchnotes/
Detailed notes to go with the slides can be found here: http://evalottalamm.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/sketchnoting-talk-at-webexpo-2010-in-prague/
The Prime Directive. How To Charter Your Team Best (With LEGO Serious Play)Michael Tarnowski
Team chartering is generally used at the start of a project only, and team charters tend to be quite general and abstract.
In this hands-on session of Agile Cambridge Conference 2015, we will use the 'Lego Serious Play' method to develop a team-specific team charter, which fits individual team goals and can be adapted continuously.
If you work in Scrum environment or you’re just a team member who is trying to guide a conversation – then these interactive facilitation techniques are for you. In this session focus will be on games which you could use in virtual environment.
Slides for the talk conducted by Angel Medinilla at Scrum Gathering Barcelona on how to choose, train and develop great Scrum Masters. The video should be available soon at http://vimeo.com/user3469010
To survive as a company, the organization needs to become a shapeshifter: sometimes hierarchical, sometimes networked; sometimes efficient, sometimes effective; sometimes great at execution, and other times great at innovation. You can only achieve this by motivating people to change continuously. To achieve this, we take a closer look at gamification and habit-forming. Because games and habits are the keys to intrinsic motivation and change. And you need those in your company to become a great shapeshifter!
9 Unique Traits of High-Performing TeamsWeekdone.com
What are the unique traits that separate high-performers from low-performers? Find out and build your own High-Performance Team that is highly focused on goals and achieve superior business results.
Using LEGO Serious Play to boost collective creativity & increase trustPatrizia Bertini
UX is a team effort: So many different skills, points of views, and expertise is needed to deliver best-in-class services and products. But to do this a team must function well, with members trusting each other and communicating smoothly, overcoming differences and diverse point of views. In this session we'll use LEGO Serious Play to think creatively in groups, share ideas, innovate, and co-create the next winning experiences through efficient interaction, participation, collaboration, and a shared goals.
LegoViews: a LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ based interviewing technique.Patrizia Bertini
LegoViews is an innovative journalistic interviewing technique developed by Patrizia Bertini, Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ facilitator. Starting from the theoretical framework of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™, the LegoView technique allows new ideas and new concepts to emerge, providing original and new insights about the topics at hand. The Lego-interviewing technique has been tested in highly sensitive contexts, including Palestine, Israel and the Occupy LSX movement, and it has also been used to provide new insights on specific concepts, like art, creativity, colour and architecture by involving artists, architects, professionals and thinkers.
The presentation was given during the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ Certified facilitators' Annual Meeting in Billund (Denmark) on April 7th 2013.
The presentations draws from LSP workshops' and Lego-interviews' experiences to present similarities and differences and to highlight the high potential of a creative and constructive approach both to elicit new meanings and perspectives and to create new meanings. A final comparison between LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ and LegoViews completes the presentation, summarising more than 3 years' work and research in the field.
Lego Serious Play & Business Model CanvasJan Peeters
I made a report on the Lego Serious Play workshop I organized together with Flanders DC. We used the Lego Serious Play method to deliver a business model canvas for an innovative carpet.
Introduction to LEGO SERIOUS PLAY with Natalie SuttonNatalie Sutton
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a facilitated thinking, communication and problem solving technique used by teams, individuals and organisations. Natalie Sutton is a certified facilitator and explains the process in this presentation.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Open Source Guide Issued by LEGO GroupMarko Rillo
LEGO has decided to allow everyone to use LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology. You do not need to pay for it. It is as simple as: “1) You use, 2) you develop, 3) you pass it on to anybody else to use under the same terms.“
Anybody can do what they like with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® as long as they refer to original LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Open-source document and give exactly the same credit for the next developers.
"You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than you can from a lifetime of conversation" - Plato
Imagine what we get from playing 4 hours!
Lego® Serious Play® is an efficient tool for insights exploration, training, business or HR actions.
LEGO® Serious Play®. How To Solve Your Business Challenges PlayfullyMichael Tarnowski
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is a structured and facilitated workshop method for strategic decision making and problem resolution in business environments.
LSP answers questions rephrasing the business topics. The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. LSP is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative ideas.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Imagination & Creativity for the BusinessPatrizia Bertini
Lego Serious Play is a creative, imaginative and story-telling based approach that since 2002 has been successfully adopted by businesses ad organisations all around the world.
LSP has proved to be an effective solution for team building, strategy, co-creation, concept, conflict resolution…
And its efficacy can be tracked back to the key theories that have been included in the development and formalisation of LSP: from management, Psychology of play, Imagination, Embodied cognition, Metaphors, constructionism… They are all perfectly integrated in the Lego Serious Play experience and deliver unexpected results efficiently. This presentation tells who adopted this approach and the whys.
Slides from my talk about sketchnoting at WebExpo Prague 2010.
The video of the talk is now online: http://webexpo.net/talk/sketchnotes/
Detailed notes to go with the slides can be found here: http://evalottalamm.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/sketchnoting-talk-at-webexpo-2010-in-prague/
The Prime Directive. How To Charter Your Team Best (With LEGO Serious Play)Michael Tarnowski
Team chartering is generally used at the start of a project only, and team charters tend to be quite general and abstract.
In this hands-on session of Agile Cambridge Conference 2015, we will use the 'Lego Serious Play' method to develop a team-specific team charter, which fits individual team goals and can be adapted continuously.
If you work in Scrum environment or you’re just a team member who is trying to guide a conversation – then these interactive facilitation techniques are for you. In this session focus will be on games which you could use in virtual environment.
Slides for the talk conducted by Angel Medinilla at Scrum Gathering Barcelona on how to choose, train and develop great Scrum Masters. The video should be available soon at http://vimeo.com/user3469010
To survive as a company, the organization needs to become a shapeshifter: sometimes hierarchical, sometimes networked; sometimes efficient, sometimes effective; sometimes great at execution, and other times great at innovation. You can only achieve this by motivating people to change continuously. To achieve this, we take a closer look at gamification and habit-forming. Because games and habits are the keys to intrinsic motivation and change. And you need those in your company to become a great shapeshifter!
9 Unique Traits of High-Performing TeamsWeekdone.com
What are the unique traits that separate high-performers from low-performers? Find out and build your own High-Performance Team that is highly focused on goals and achieve superior business results.
Lecture 7 and 8 Employability Creativity and Personal Development 23 october...Fahri Karakas
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Object Lesson - Lego Instructions for the Christian LifeKen Sapp
LEGOs are one of those toys that are universally loved around the world by all ages. They are simple building blocks in a variety of shapes and colors, but with a little creativity and imagination they can be put together in unlimited combinations to create masterpieces. They are a great metaphor for each of us in the body of Christ. And if we follow God's instruction we can be used to create and do incredible things.
The “Course Topics” series from Manage Train Learn and Slide Topics is a collection of over 4000 slides that will help you master a wide range of management and personal development skills. The 202 PowerPoints in this series offer you a complete and in-depth study of each topic. This presentation is on "Creative Thinking".
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In 2011 i read this wonderful book from the found of IDEO Tom Kelley, on how to manage and inculcate innovation.. this book was a precursor for the book ten faces of Innovation
Beyond your studies ~ You studied X at Y. now what?
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A student's life ago, the author somehow managed to graduate.
On the way, he made a lot of mistakes -- and he still does.
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And now, the author will do another (big!) mistake:
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Btw the author is 42 (WTF - old!).
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This document was prepared by Lorenzo Cantoni, Marco Faré and Elisabetta Frick of Università della Svizzera italiana (University of Lugano, Switzerland) in May 2011 and it was uploaded to the webatelier.net website, which sadly no longer functions. Since the document is Open Source, I have made it freely available here.
Since the website s-play.eu no longer functions and the links are dead, I have decided to upload the White Paper on LEGO Serious Play here. The authors of the paper are: Elisabetta Frick, Stefano Tardini, Lorenzo Cantoni of Università della Svizzera italiana Lugano, Switzerland. The paper was written in 2013. Uploaded here for historic information.
A scanned version of Imaginopedia for Core Process that has been included here in Slideshare for information purposes. This booklet is included in LEGO Serious Play Starter Kit since 2010: http://seriousplaypro.com/bricks/starter-kit/
Before 2010, the LEGO Group included in previous kits a booklet called "Imaginopedia for Skills Building"
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2. Play with a purpose
When we play with great materials (we
sometimes call them toys) we can play
even better.
Great materials allow us to construct new
ideas and new worlds, to enrich what we
make with meaning, and really get into
the stories that matter. And when we play
about something that is important, like
our business, we can enrich everyone’s
quality of life at work.
Communication is easier, social bonding
is strengthened, and increased insight,
confidence and commitment is created.
Play is the best way people have to imagine, interact, and learn, especially when they
face complex and uncertain challenges. Play frees us to take risks, to imagine the
unimaginable and to take on different roles.
Through play we can test and hone our skills, develop new insights, and prepare
ourselves for the unknown. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ is a technique for deep reflection, an
effective dialogue and creative problem solving.
A valuable tool
We call this kind of play adult play, play
with great materials, and play with a
purpose – LEGO®
SERIOUS PLAY™.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a deep and
lasting experience that stays with you
beyond the time you spend in a workshop.
The play process becomes a valuable tool
that you can rely on to “work” no matter
what the situation.
What comes out of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™?
2 3
3. Minifigure, a window
Your LEGO® Bricktionary
102,981,500 is the number of different ways you can combine six 8-stud bricks of the same color.
If you haven’t got that much time, you can take three 8-stud bricks – of the same color – and fit
them together in 1,600 ways. Two 8-stud bricks – of the same color – can be put together 24 ways.
Bricks Plates
Gears Axles and
connectors
Basic
Wheels, tires,
and bearings of opportunity, a flag pole… or
just Bricks.
Hinges and
turntables
Making connections, making sense, and
seeing possibilities happens best when in
a group and when linked to emotions.
What happens during
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™?
While you are involved in LEGO SERIOUS
PLAY, you see things differently: Ideas
come to life with more detail, and you
generate a wider and more imaginative
range of possibilities than you would
ordinarily.
People at play are more present, more
engaged, more passionate and better
performers. LEGO SERIOUS PLAY social-
ly bonds together the team that plays
together and creates a lasting atmos-
phere of imagination and trust.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY provides a tool for
deep reflection and effective dialogue.
4 5
4. The process
Building in your mind and with your hands
The exercises in this Imaginopedia are
designed to take you through a three-
stage process (Constructing, Metaphors,
and Story Making) of perfecting your
skills as a story maker using a specially
designed set of LEGO®
Bricks.
We call this process Skills Building and
it has been developed to guarantee the
best possible learning experience in the
workshop.
Have fun playing seriously! Your facilitator
will guide you throughout the workshop.
They all fit together – try it!
A
B
C
D
6 7
5. ConstructingConstructing
Chances are, whatever job training you
had did little to prepare you for deal-
ing with completely new and constantly
changing situations. In most cases, a
formal education consists of lectures and
textbooks, which train us to follow proto-
cols and to think firmly inside the box.
Rules
• Start your construction on the biggest
base plate.
• Eventually a LEGO®
Minifigure must be
fixed at the very top of the structure.
• You may use only the elements in your
individual set of bricks.
Reach for the sky!
The world, however, is not square. To be
effective, we must learn to expect change
and see it as opportunity. For instance, a
brand new opportunity has just popped
up. You want to be the first to “reach the
top”, so build upwards as fast as you can.
Make the tallest structure you can with the
bricks. Make it as quickly as you can but
prepare for the unexpected! Wait for your
facilitator to give you the ”go” signal.
The opportunity is there on the other side.
Like all the best opportunities, you have to
Rules
• When finished it must be possible to pass
at least one hand under your bridge.
• You may use only the elements in your
individual set of bricks.
Bridge to the opportunities!
Constructing
Using your hands to build something releases thoughts and concepts that are “stuck”
in your head. Thoughts that are “built” tend to be more memorable and more easily
understood by yourself and others.
Challenge C2
The tall tower
Challenge C1
The wide bridge
Make a bridge with the widest and highest
span possible. Make it as quickly as you
can but prepare for the unexpected! Wait
for your facilitator to give the go-signal.
jump higher and wider to get to it. So how
can you get there quickly?
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6. Meaning with metaphorsMeaning with metaphors
Metaphors are
powerful tools
that can lead us
to think about our
realities in new
ways. These might
challenge existing
assumptions and
beliefs and reveal
new possibilities.
Giving meaning with metaphors
Many of the metaphors we use in
business such as “niche” or “life-cycle”
have been borrowed from the field of
biology. For example, some businesses
could be described as “high-flying hawks”
while others could be “snakes in the
grass”. Do you know a company that is
a “lumbering dinosaur”? Can you identify
an enterprise that’s a “racehorse hitched
to a wagon with a broken wheel”? Do you
know a business that “eats people alive”?
Is that department a “money pit”? Ever
been “stuck between a rock and a hard
place”?
Open minded or
pulling in opposite
directions?
It is your meaning in the model
Eagle-eyed or
high-flying
employee?
Well protected or
tired-out?
Free thinker or
an air head?
A methodical
thinker or a
controlled mind?
Walk the talk or
talk the walk?
High-level
communication or
a fight on words?
Flower power or
cluttered
combustion?
Who is to decide
on the meaning of
a model – which
metaphor is the right
one?
We think you are!
When you built a
model, it is your
meaning that is the
‘right’ one.
Are you ready to
have a go at it?
Look at page 12 + 13 and 14 + 15.
Choose one of the models and build it
according to the instructions.
Now adapt your model – your facilitator
will provide instructions.
Now tell the other participants about your
metaphor.
Challenge M1
The Model
Step 1
Rules
• You may ask your facilitator for technical
support at any time.
• When you are finished, wait for your
facilitator to give you further instructions.
Rules
• Change, add to, or delete from the model
as you like.
• Think in terms of metaphors – feel free
to exaggerate and to be as dramatic
and passionate as you like (look at page
10 for inspiration).
• If you feel stuck let the bricks guide you
– just start building.
Remember
• The model, the metaphors, and the mean-
ing are all yours. The other participants
can ask only clarifying questions.
Challenge M1
The Model
Step 2
Challenge M1
The Model
Step 3
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7. Model 1
Meaning with metaphors
1
Congratulations!
When you are
finished, return to
page 11 and wait for
your facilitator to
start step 2 of the
challenge.
2 3 4
5 6 7 8
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8. Model 2
Meaning with metaphors
Congratulations!
When you are
finished, return to
page 11 and wait for
your facilitator to
start step 2 of the
challenge.
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
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9. Story making
It’s not just what you say, it’s how you say it
Do you see little
guidance as a
positive thing?
Has this sort of “out
of the blue” thing
happened to you
before?
How do you usually
feel about being
given only a few
parameters?
Rules
• You have about five minutes to build.
Your facilitator will keep track of time.
• Whatever you build, build it with pas-
sion.
Build a simple model that represents some
issue you are having at work, or how you
feel about that issue. The issue could be
a person, an event, a “feeling”. The issue
might impact others or you alone.
When you have finished building, write five
words (not sentences) that capture the
essence of your model on a blank card.
Your facilitator will guide you from here.
Find the 5 bricks from picture A or B.
Then select an additional 10 bricks of
your choice – bringing the total up to 15
bricks.
Build a model – any model – using only
these bricks. Your model does not have to
look like anything from real life. In fact, it
is all up to you.
Your facilitator will guide you from here.
Story making
Challenge S2
Explain this
Challenge S1
An issue at work
A B
Unless you are lucky, you have to be care-
ful about “telling it like it is” to the powers
that be – especially in times of crisis. In
some organizations you could lose your
job for speaking your mind. In some
countries you could lose your life. But
storytelling has always been a respected
vehicle for speaking the truth without fear
of retaliation. It’s the way it was done in
ancient courts by the court jester; it was
done in primitive cultures by the medicine
man; and it happens today in vital board-
rooms around the world. There is power in
story making. Use it.
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10. Imagination
Descriptive Imagination
Typicallyusedtobringtomind(ordescribe)
the complex and confusing world “out
there”, this kind of imagination is used
all the time in business. A value chain,
2-by-2 matrices, flow-charts and similar
models that utilize repeating patterns, or
show similar things in different ways, are
examples of Descriptive Imagination.
Creative Imagination
The Creative Imagination is about evoking
trulynewpossibilitiesfromthecombination,
recombination or transformation of things
or concepts. The inherent trap of the
Creative Imagination is fantasy. Fantasy
is the domain of the impossible, whereas
imagination is about possible realities,
and even the making of reality.
Challenging Imagination
It is with the Challenging Imagination
that we negate, defame, contradict and
even destroy the sense of progress that
comes from descriptions and creativity.
Some methods include deconstruction
and sarcasm. It might require throwing
away and starting all over. The inherent
risk of the Challenging Imagination is to
come up empty handed.
Three kinds of imagination
Humans have it. Animals don’t. It is the unique ability to think about what has not yet
been – but could be. Imagination is THE resource that allows us to explore and test new
possible realities.
With which style of Imagination do you feel most comfortable?
Which companies would you guess use each of the three different
types of Imagination?
Story making
Story making lets you imagine and
describe what might happen before it
actually does. Making stories about your
LEGO® model allows you to test what
could happen in real life, in real time, and
produce knowledge that could impact
future action. However well we think we
have prepared for the unexpected, we can
still only prepare for what we already know.
Can you remember
the last time you told
a story?
Are outdated stories
still being told at
your place?
Have you ever used
a story to tell the
truth?
Rules
• You have about ten minutes to build. Your
facilitator will keep track of time.
• It is OK to exaggerate and to build with
humor.
• Your facilitator will guide you from here.
Make up a story about “The Manager from
Hell”. Build a model to help you explain the
characteristics of this person. What traits
do you think characterizes this monster
and what does it look like? It might be a
good idea NOT to have a specific person
in mind.
Rules
• You have about ten minutes to build. Your
facilitator will keep track of time.
• It is OK to exaggerate and to build with
humor.
• Your facilitator will guide you from here.
Make up a story about the ideal employ-
ee. Build a model to help you explain the
traits and abilities of this. What do you
think characterizes the perfect candidate
and how can you show it?
Challenge S2
A monstrous story
Challenge S4
The perfect candidate
Making stories about a potential future
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11. Imagination
Jones’ Go-Carts
You are an employee at the renowned
toy company Jones’ Go-Carts situated in
Orlando, Florida. Jones’ Go-Carts have been
manufacturing premium quality go-carts and
As a member of the product development
team you are co-responsible for coming
up with prototypes for next year’s prod-
ucts. You and the rest of the team are just
about to have the decisive meeting before
presenting your ideas to Mr. Jones.
Build a model of a go-cart for kids that
you think will be next year’s big seller. The
competition is closing in on Jones’ Go-
Carts so you better do well if the company
is to stay in the lead.
Mr. Jones will visit the team in a few
minutes. He will decide which prototype
to put into production so you better be
ready to deliver a short but engaged sales
pitch explaining the features and benefits
of your model.
Rules
• You can only use the elements in your
Inventory.
• You have two minutes to build.
• You have one minute to sell your idea to
Mr. Jones.
Next year: The go-carts we manufactured
last year still work just fine so we could
go on making them the same but a lit-
tle different. But there are so many other
directions to explore. Do we always want
to make go-carts? Could there be more
exciting ways to move kids? Is there a
market for that? How far can we push it?
Build a model of a product intended for
the market of “fun movement for kids”.
Again, Mr. Jones will pay you a visit –
in fact he’s already on his way – and he
will be looking for imaginative ideas of
pushing the product portfolio into this new
market segment. Be ready to explain why
your idea is just the thing.
Rules
• The same as last year.
Most of us feel very uncomfortable throw-
ing out everything and starting all over
again. Usually we’ve made a considerable
investment in getting where we are. Mr.
Jones feels that the current line of busi-
ness no longer takes the company where
it should and could go. Maybe it’s time to
rethink everything?
Build a prototype of “any product that will
help the company stay on top”.
At his familiar annual visit, Mr. Jones will
be expecting something totally out of the
box. Are you up for the challenge?
Rules
• The same as every year.
Your inventory
Collect these bricks from your own
set and put the remaining bricks
back in the box.
soap box racers for kids since 1902! The
company is headed by 3rd generation Mr.
Jones who has managed to keep the com-
pany in a market leading position – so far.
Challenge i1
Inside the soap box
Challenge i2
Push the cart further
Challenge i3
Get out off your soapbox
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12. Even when you can’t plan it, you can
build it
When an idea gets stuck between the
head and the hand, it helps to play it out.
Play can be a context in which risks can
be taken without risk, in which the un-
imaginable can be imagined without fear,
and in which the unattainable can be rea-
lized without hesitation.
When you make something using your
hands, an extremely complicated pro-
cess takes over that endows the experi-
ence with a powerful emotional charge.
Research shows that people are changed
significantly and irreversibly when move-
ment, thought, and feeling fuse during
the active, long-term pursuit of personal
goals. Human beings are just wired that
way.
Learning goes much deeper when you
have a hand in it. Building with your hands
is one of the best ways of stimulating
imagination. It allows you to bring your
intuition from all your experiences and
your analyses into something concrete
– something you can play with. When you
build in the world, you build in your mind.
Your brain has a mind of its own
Our minds have enormous untapped
potential that we need to learn how to use.
It is a fact that our brains contain approxi-
mately 10,000 billion neurons that can be
combined in more ways than there are
atoms in the known universe. Yet we are
only capable of being conscious of about
seven things at any one time. Although
brain cells are highly specialized, they still
function according to the laws that govern
any other cells.
The brain knows it must organize infor-
mation in order for the organism to sur-
vive. When there is a dramatic change
in the organism’s environment, the brain
recognizes that it must change or die.
The learning organism
Business is also a living organism. It
exists in a living, changing environment.
Even though it is highly specialized, it too
must function according to the laws that
govern other businesses. To cope with
a volatile world market, today’s business
“organism” must develop the capacity to
shift and change, as well as adopt new
skills and attitudes. In short, the business
organism must “learn”. The business that
“learns” best wins. Too much instruction
kills the desire to experiment. Research
has shown that people learn the main
ideas more effectively from summaries of
textbook chapters than from reading the
chapters themselves.
Give your brain a hand
A strategic toolConclusions
LEGO®
SERIOUS PLAY™ is a facilitated proc-
ess delivered by a network of certified LEGO
SERIOUS PLAY partners.
Through the Real Time Strategy program, you
construct your Identity, learn to heed your busi-
ness Landscape, and uncover the few Simple
Guiding Principles that reflect your organiza-
tion’s mindset and core values. These principles
becomeastrategictoolagainstwhichallactions,
big or small, can be continuously tested.
When a particularly challenging or critical issue
appears on your business landscape — and a
Beast like that is always just around the corner
– Real Time Strategy enables you to make the right
decisions in the face of intention and emergence.
Real Time Strategy for the TEAM and Real Time
Identity for YOU enables you to heed whom you
are, as a team or as an individual, and become
more aware of how you operate in your job
Landscape. Through this experience you can
better appreciate the value and the possibilities
you bring to the team and the company.
A deep and shared awareness of yourself and
your relationship to others enriches everyone’s
experience at work and generates an atmosphere
of increased insight, commitment and trust.
How can you apply LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™ to business?
Selected Readings
Fein, G. “Pretend Play: Creativity and
Consciousness.” In Görlitz, D. and J.F
Wohlwill. (eds.) Curiosity, Imagination and
Play. Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 1987.
Harel, I. and Seymour Papert. (eds.)
Constructionism. Norwood, NJ: Ablex
Publishing Corporation. 1991.
Ortony. A. (ed.). Metaphor and Thought.
(2nd. Edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press. 1993.
Reiber, L. “Seriously Considering Play.”
ETR & D 44.2 (1996): 43-58.
Roos, J. and Bart Victor. “Towards a New
Model of Strategy-Making as Serious
Play.” European Management Journal 17.4
(August 1999): 348-355.
Pink, Daniel H. “A Whole New Mind”,
Riverhead Books. 2005
Gauntlett, David. “Creative Explorations: New
Approaches to Identities and Audiences”,
Routledge; New Ed edition. 2007.
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