The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method has gained prominence as a powerful tool for fostering innovation, enhancing team collaboration, and solving complex problems.
By mastering this method, HR managers, consultants, coaches, and academics can significantly boost their professional capabilities.
Serious Play Business, offers certification in this method, ensuring that professionals are equipped to leverage its full potential.
Understanding the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method is a facilitated meeting, communication, and problem-solving technique where participants use LEGO® bricks to build models representing their ideas, reflections, and stories.
This method taps into the participants’ subconscious insights through creative construction.
Core Principles
- Imagination and Exploration: Encourage participants to explore and visualize their thoughts in three dimensions.
- Constructionism: Facilitate learning through making and reflecting on the tangible models participants create.
- Playful Process: Create an environment where play and serious thinking coexist.
- Shared Understanding: Promote a shared understanding of complex issues through collaborative model building.
10 Core LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitation Techniques
1. Warm-Up Exercises
Warm-up exercises are crucial for getting participants comfortable with the bricks and the process. Simple tasks can enhance creativity and prepare participants for more complex scenarios.
2. Personal Identity Models
Identity models help participants externalize their perceptions of themselves and others, fostering deeper self-awareness and team understanding.
3. Future State Models
Building future state models helps participants envision their goals and explore potential solutions in a tangible form.
4. Organizational Metaphors
This technique helps participants explore and represent organizational structures and dynamics, identifying challenges and opportunities.
5. Problem Identification Models
Enhance problem-solving capabilities by guiding participants to construct models that depict core problems they face.
6. Strategy Landscape
Strategic planning can be significantly enhanced through the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method, allowing for a visual and interactive approach to strategy development.
7. Shared Models
Facilitating the creation of shared models strengthens team collaboration and trust by building a collective vision.
8. Reflective Models
Reflection is a critical component of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® process, enabling participants to internalize and articulate their insights.
9. Scenario Planning
Scenario planning helps participants anticipate and prepare for future challenges by building and discussing potential future scenarios.
10. Conflict Resolution
This technique uses LEGO® models to help participants visualize and resolve conflicts by exploring different perspectives and solutions.
Why HR Managers, Consultants, Coaches, and Academics Should Get Certified
There are so many reasons why it’s important to undertake facilitator training. Experienced facilitators gain so many new tools to use in both online meetings and for in-person events.
1. Enhanced Problem-Solving Skills
Certification in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method equips professionals with advanced problem-solving facilitation techniques, making them invaluable assets in any organization.
By visualizing complex issues, HR managers can develop more effective strategies, consultants can offer innovative solutions, coaches can foster deeper client engagement, and academics can facilitate more interactive learning experiences.
2. Improved Team Collaboration
The method fosters collaboration and communication, essential for any team environment. HR managers can build stronger teams, consultants can facilitate better client interactions, coaches can enhance group dynamics, and academics can promote collaborative learning.
3. Innovative Thinking
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method encourages creative and out-of-the-box thinking.
This is particularly beneficial for HR managers looking to drive innovation within their teams, consultants seeking unique solutions for clients, coaches aiming to unlock new potentials in their clients, and academics striving to inspire their students.
4. Effective Strategy Development
Using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method for strategy development allows for a more comprehensive and inclusive planning process.
HR managers can develop robust talent strategies, consultants can craft detailed business plans, coaches can create personalized development plans, and academics can design innovative research projects.
5. Versatility Across Sectors
The skills acquired through certification are applicable across various sectors. Whether you are in corporate, education, or consulting, the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
6. Engaging Workshop Facilitation
Certified facilitators can run engaging and productive workshops, enhancing participant engagement and outcomes.
This is particularly useful for HR managers conducting team-building activities, consultants facilitating client workshops, coaches running development sessions, and academics leading interactive classes.
7. Tangible Outcomes
The tangible models created during LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® sessions provide lasting artifacts that can be revisited and refined, ensuring sustained impact and continuous improvement.
8. Increased Credibility
Certification from Serious Play Business adds credibility to your professional profile, showcasing your commitment to innovative and effective facilitation techniques.
9. Networking Opportunities
Becoming certified opens up opportunities to connect with other professionals in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® community, fostering valuable relationships and collaborations.
10. Personal and Professional Growth
The process of becoming certified is itself a journey of personal and professional growth, enhancing your skills, expanding your perspectives, and enriching your career.
Diagram: Facilitation Process Flow
By mastering these 10 core LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitation techniques and becoming certified through Serious Play Business, you can enhance your professional toolkit, drive meaningful change in your organization, and unlock new potentials in your career.
Why be certified through Serious Play Business
- We offer both foundation training as well as advanced training to suit your requirements and your budget.
- Our facilitator training program is available as online training – either through self-paced learning or through 4 hours of training conducted via live webinar.
- We ensure that we boost your facilitation skills by giving you the confidence to deploy the method in real time.
- Our certification process gives you individualised feedback to ensure that you have hands-on experience in facilitating the process and seeing how the power of metaphor and metaphorical thinking benefits so many groups.
- Our videos give you a real sense of the methodology in action so that you see how the basic elements all come together during sessions in action.
- We are proud to offer the most affordable certification in the market – and in a way that builds skills through an interactive learning journey. Our program follows adult learning principles so that you build a complete skill set.
- We provide you with 12-month access and you are able to extend your membership to develop not only your basic knowledge, but gain further invaluable experience in using this innovative process maintaining access to resources such as our session plans. Our pop-up online sessions introduce you to our global community of users.
- We offer easy payment options through credit card instalments and also via PayPal Pay in 4. You therefore have the benefit of starting your training journey and paying for it as you go along.
What are you waiting for?
Our registration process is easy – just click below to make your choice of delivery options foundation or advanced training through our online courses:
You will soon be delivering impactful workshops for your clients or groups. Use the incredible power of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to win over consulting clients, students or team members and leaders.
