LEGO: Serious Play

Team Building often has very little to do with building, and much more to do with establishing pecking orders based on the ability of individual team members to assert themselves, and not on their ability to offer valuable contributions. Beyond all the usual lip-service of management seminars, LEGO Serious Play claims seminar attendees will find themselves “…building landscape models with LEGO bricks, giving them meaning through storymaking, and playing-out various possible scenarios, which deepens understanding, sharpens insight, and socially “bonds” together the group who “plays” together.” Using LEGO for team building really appeals to me, and I would love to attend one of these seminars. If anyone has attended please leave a comment! The site can be found under http://www.seriousplay.com/.

2 Responses to “LEGO: Serious Play”

  1. Chris Echelmeier Says:

    Hey Sean,
    This is one of those “why didn’t I think of that?” ideas!
    I would love to try this, and will suggest it at NewsGator. Not that we need help, as you are familiar with, we’re a pretty high performance team that you’d expect with a startup. But I was (is) a true LEGOmaniac… and my 7 year old son is too.

  2. Sean MacNiven Says:

    True mate. I love it. Newsgator is an awesome company BTW. May 2009 be an excellent year for Really Simple Syndication, especially your new widgets. Very cool indeed. I am also a LEGOmaniac…we should find some decent LEGO feeds to feed our inner freaks.

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