When you as a leader or manager want to gather the total individual and team brain power to work on complex business issues such as developing strategy plans, resolving conflicts, forming and developing teams and working with turnaround and restructuring –then LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is the method of choice.

Consider how such gatherings take place –typically as meetings and workshops. Think about all those meetings you have participated in over the years. Just imagine HOW valuable it would be for the organization and the business if everyone left those meeting rooms feeling that:

• Everyone’s insight, knowledge and ideas were brought fully to the table.

• Other participant’s insight, knowledge and ideas were fully integrated as each person’s insights.

• The entire team had experienced new knowledge, developed clearer perceptions, and greater awareness, gained and delivered informed opinions.

• Everyone is MORE confident about what happened in the meeting, that it REALLY will make a difference RIGHT NOW, and they had both the insight and the confidence to make it happen.

• Every participant ALSO left these meetings feeling a stronger commitment to go about their work and take action in accordance with what was shared, because the meetings also created a social bond and increased the shared sense of responsibility.

Unfortunately, in too many situations the reality is that people don’t leave such meetings with a sense of what was just described. Too much energy, too many ideas, too many opportunities are lost with the result that people feel less motivated, not involved, not taken seriously.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY deals with exactly that challenge. It is a language, communication tool, problem solving methodology, based on the belief that everyone can contribute to the discussion, the decisions, and the outcome.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a radical, innovative, experiential process designed to enhance business performance. It is based on the belief that everyone can contribute to the discussion, the decisions and the outcome.

The use of LEGO bricks simply enables you to take a speedy shortcut to the core. The bricks work as a catalyst – and when used for building metaphors, they trigger processes that you were previously unaware of.

Participants come away with skills to communicate more effectively, to engage their imaginations more readily, and to approach their work with increased confidence, commitment and insight.

With LEGO SERIOUS PLAY you will inevitably surface indiscussables and save time through deep dialogue about your complex issues so you can make more, better and faster decisions. LEGO SERIOUS PLAY levels the playing field, engaging 100% attention and participation.

"I'm convinced we covered more in that day than would have been possible in a week of workshops facilitated by more traditional means, and by less able facilitators [Big Blue Stuff]"

- J. Johns, Government Industry Group, EDS

Fully harvest the insight, ideas and imagination available in your organization. LEGO SERIOUS PLAY taps into the human ability to imagine - to describe and make sense of the business at hand, to initiate change and improvement, and even to create something radically new.

"The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY experience inspires the imagination and creativity that we all possess but sometimes we unknowingly keep too deep beneath the surface."

- Lance Saunders, Sr. Vice President, Leo Burnett, Canada

Building landscape models with LEGO bricks, giving them meaning through story making, and playing-out various possible scenarios, deepens understanding, sharpens insight, and socially "bonds" together the group who "plays" together. Participants come away with increased confidence and more committed to the shared and common goals.

“We used LSP in a complex merger between several units. The process and the 3D models helped us to develop a shared understanding of our future business reducing uncertainty and making it possible to accelerate the merger process”

- Laust Joen Jakobsen, Director, CVU Greater Copenhagen

All LEGO SERIOUS PLAY workshops are group processes and designed around a relatively limited number of powerful core concepts. These conceptual modules can be configured in multiple ways to best meet your needs.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY builds on a REAL TIME process, which begins with the "right now". It draws in relevant parts of the past and integrates this with the future hopes, aspirations and fears of everyone in the room. It is brought to the process to find out what can and should be done today. Being better at "now" results in being better prepared for challenges and opportunities in the future.

Traditional business tools typically analyze the past and speculate about the future. The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY products incorporate elements from the past and future and test them through scenarios in Real Time to achieve improved decision making immediately.

The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY programs are being used at companies worldwide that are looking for innovative ways to increase the commitment, confidence and insight of their executives, managers and employees. The programs are in use for a broad range of purposes, including

• Strategy development and exploration
  Examine and evaluate relations to external partners and clients.
• Organizational development
  For management, teams and individual employees.
• Innovation and product development
  Unleash creative thinking and transform ideas into concrete concepts.
• Change management
  Facilitate and implement structural changes and mergers.

Experience shows great relevance of the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method in other areas such as Scenario development and testing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Branding, Leadership and Team Development, Turnaround & Restructuring, Market Entry, Operational Efficiency and Competitive Analysis.

If you are seeking to reveal more impactful insights, improve decision making, find hidden opportunities, stimulate entrepreneurship, improve project leadership, surface hidden issues, clarify values, roles and identities, integrate new teams and new members, resolve conflicts, integrate diverse cultures or discuss the un-discussable - then LEGO SERIOUS PLAY may be your method of choice.

Someone glancing through a window at a LEGO SERIOUS PLAY session might think it looks like fun and games. When you’ve experienced it for yourself, you’ll know nothing could be farther from the truth - LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is serious business!

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY uses LEGO bricks and elements and a unique method where people are empowered to "think through their fingers" - unleashing insight, inspiration and imagination. In a very direct way, you will be able to see what everyone knows inside the company – and what they don’t know they know! Within a surprisingly short time, an organization can have a clear, shared direction with people who are confidently aligned and committed to a course of action.

You will explore the relationships and connections between people and their world, to observe the dynamics both internal and external, to explore various hypothetical scenarios, and to gain awareness of the possibilities.

You will be building landscape models with LEGO bricks, giving them meaning through story making, and playing-out various possible scenarios, which deepens understanding, sharpens insight, and socially "bonds" together the group who "plays" together. LEGO SERIOUS PLAY will guide you into free and honest exchange of opinion. The physical and tangible construction allows for you to have conversations to flow without the fear of treading on personal feelings. You will experience that the real issues are addressed and ultimately allows you to see things through the eyes of your colleagues – and have them see through yours.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY invites all participants to take an active part in the process. The common language – the bricks – treats everyone as equals and allows all opinions and aspects to be heard. In a very direct way, you will be able to see what everyone knows inside the company – and what they don’t know they know!