Strategic Planning

Looking for a way to fast-track to the real issues?

How do you leverage the expertise within your organization?

Can you transform decisions into shared goals for the whole organization?

Build your way to better business through LEGO SERIOUS PLAY

Course Overview

When we speak or write about complex issues we inevitably simplify and reduce the amount of information in order to make ourselves and our message more easily understood. Especially when discussing business issues, it’s easy to leave out relevant details in order to make the overall picture clear. In some cases, this simplification is okay – but more often the key to your problems lies in the details.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a new hands-on language for business – a tool that lets your mind form and organize new thoughts. The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY process uses bricks to visualize situations and enhance business performance. The bricks create metaphors for real business issues and will allow you to address complex issues without simplifying or losing the important details.

By gathering participants and literally bringing – and building – situations to life, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY invites you to look at reality in a new and objective way. The three-dimensional landscape you build using LEGO bricks provides valuable insight into the ways your company works and how they connect with the outside world.

Deeper and easier understanding is one of the key advantages of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY. In addition, LEGO SERIOUS PLAY ensures that no vital information is omitted. When the team gathers, it becomes easy to evaluate a variety of issues – even those that have not previously been present.

This will open your eyes to the internal and external dynamics in your organization allowing for exploration of scenarios and possibilities. And, when you get a concrete visualization of reality, it also brings out the tacit knowledge that enables you to discover facts and relations that you weren’t aware of before!

Lego Real Time Strategy is a workshop suitable for management or executive teams looking to set strategic plans or as a tool to training managers to think more effectively on a strategic level.

The format of the day follows a series of interventions that allows management teams to move from a built and shared vision of where the team is now towards where they are going.

- Who are you at your Core? Build your external and aspirational Identities
- Construct your Shared identity
- Review any factor that has an impact on your enterprise, either positively or negatively. Real Time Strategy requires constant awareness of the influencers affecting your business landscape
- Build a system of connections between factors that impact your business
- Play emergence – what could happen right now and what is less likely to occur? What would the impact be on flash points?
- Identifying the right things to do will help establish your set of Simple Guiding Principles.

The advantages of the Lego Real Time Strategy Workshop are:

- 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! FROM THERE, IT’S EASY TO MOVE INTO ACTION.
- Insights made using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY are immediately actionable. Because the insights come from the people who will implement them, ideas don’t have to be introduced and anchored – they can be set into motion right away!
- What LEGO SERIOUS PLAY provides is an efficient tool for crafting the solution to strategic issues and challenges confronting the organization or the division.
- By giving people this new way to communicate, they will be able to identify problems and formulate action plans that deal with the real issues – not the symptoms.
- Using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, participants will be clearer on objectives, actions and on the Simple Guiding Principles for the organization. Consequently, business strategies will be much more comprehensive and coherent – and in a deeper way that creates actionable ideas.

Who should attend

Management or executive teams who are developing new strategies for effective business planning

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