Lego Serious Play Activities

Implementing Lego Serious Play activities in an organisation can lead to incredible outcomes.

I have just come back from a wonderfully stimulating week in Vancouver learning how to use Lego as a facilitation tool for problem solving and developing strategy. The goal of Lego Serious Play (LSP) is to allow teams to develop their ideas by creating 3D models of their organisational experiences thus allowing more creative conversations.

Benefits of the Lego Serious Play Method

One of the key reasons Lego Serious Play activities are so powerful is that everyone has to build and discuss their own model before contributing to a shared model. This ensures that all participants taking part in Lego Serious Play team building contribute equally to the discussion.

There is also a body of academic research that says that learning happens particularly well when people are engaged in constructing something external to themselves like a product (or Lego castle!)

Lego Serious Play Example

The picture below is the model we made of what the ideal attributes the global network of Lego Serious Play facilitators would display. We then added a range of external factors that might impact the network and demonstrated how they could affect it via the choice of connector. The photo below shows two of my fellow trainees adding links from the external factors to the model.

Learn more about our Lego Serious Play workshops here.