This document provides information about Lego Serious Play, a technique using Lego bricks to facilitate thinking, problem solving, and discussions. Some key points:
- Lego Serious Play uses basic Lego bricks to build metaphors and representations that can uncover insights about individuals, teams, challenges, and visions.
- It is used for team building, innovation, working through shared problems, building shared understandings, and leadership development.
- The process involves building models to represent a topic or challenge, explaining the models, asking questions, and combining elements into group models.
- Warm-up exercises are recommended to build skills in representation, storytelling and collaboration before tackling deeper challenges.
The Prime Directive. How To Charter Your Team Best (With LEGO Serious Play)
Team chartering is generally used at the start of a project only, and team charters tend to be quite general and abstract.
In this hands-on session of Agile Cambridge Conference 2015, we will use the 'Lego Serious Play' method to develop a team-specific team charter, which fits individual team goals and can be adapted continuously.
LEGO® Serious Play® — For Managers.
Solve Your Business Challenges Playfully & with Fun!
Condensed version of my LSP presentation for managers & C-level.
LEGO® Serious Play® is a structured, facilitated method. It answers questions rephrasing the business topics. The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. It is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative ideas.
Building business models with Lego Serious Play and CANVAS
This document describes using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY and the CANVAS methodology to build business models. Some key points:
- Participants use LEGO pieces to physically build models representing different elements of a business model mapped out in the CANVAS framework, including value propositions, customer segments, revenue streams, etc.
- The workshop follows the CANVAS logic but has participants build models for each element instead of just writing them. Models are then arranged on a large printed CANVAS landscape.
- After building all elements, participants identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats by building additional models and arranging them around the landscape.
- Emergence games are played by proposing hypothetical business events and
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Imagination & Creativity for the Business
Lego Serious Play is a creative, imaginative and story-telling based approach that since 2002 has been successfully adopted by businesses ad organisations all around the world.
LSP has proved to be an effective solution for team building, strategy, co-creation, concept, conflict resolution…
And its efficacy can be tracked back to the key theories that have been included in the development and formalisation of LSP: from management, Psychology of play, Imagination, Embodied cognition, Metaphors, constructionism… They are all perfectly integrated in the Lego Serious Play experience and deliver unexpected results efficiently. This presentation tells who adopted this approach and the whys.
LEGO® Serious Play®. How To Solve Your Business Challenges Playfully
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is a structured and facilitated workshop method for strategic decision making and problem resolution in business environments.
LSP answers questions rephrasing the business topics. The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. LSP is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative ideas.
The document discusses using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY methodology to facilitate understanding between groups. It involves using LEGO bricks to build 3D models that represent ideas, helping participants communicate concepts in a hands-on, engaging way. This strengthens collaboration by promoting listening, constructive dialogue, and shared understanding. The methodology allows groups to creatively develop solutions to complex problems and ensure common insights and focus.
Lego® Serious Play® in a Nutshell - by StrategicPlay®
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a process that uses LEGO bricks to envision, prototype, and explore solutions to complex problems. Participants build models representing their ideas and visions, and use the models to tell stories and make sense of information in a way that fosters empathy, shared understanding, ownership, and imagination. The process involves skills building, identifying identities, mapping landscapes, exploring scenarios, considering emergent possibilities, and developing guiding principles. The goal is to help groups co-create strategies in an engaging hands-on way.
This Power Point used for developing an action plan for HR department in a some companies in Iran, The method used in this workshop was LEGO Serious Play. In fact during this workshop facilitator tries to push HR Dep. to find their key actions to solve the companies problems.
All your comments are welcomed!!
The document provides an overview of agile estimating and planning techniques. It discusses agile principles like iterative development, self-organizing teams, and rapid delivery of working software. It also covers topics like writing user stories, estimating story points, calculating velocity, product backlog design, sprint planning, daily standups, and sprint reviews. The goal is to teach best practices for agile planning and estimation.
The document discusses agile transformation and cultural change using a lean approach to change management. It describes how organizational culture is like a memeplex that defends against foreign ideas like agility. It advocates using lean change management principles like minimal viable change to introduce agile practices and influence culture. The document recommends establishing a change coalition and change agents to drive transformation through initiatives like creating an inspiring vision, improving feedback, and measuring employee happiness. The overall approach presented is to transform culture, not just adopt practices, by focusing on people and why change is needed.
The document discusses Lego Serious Play, a method that uses Lego blocks to break through mental blocks, fuel imagination, and open minds. It is an immersive participation method where participants build Lego models to represent their ideas in response to a challenge question. This serves as a basis for knowledge sharing, problem solving, and decision making. The hands-on nature of Lego Serious Play activates deeper thinking and allows access to untapped knowledge. It has been used successfully in workshops with major banks and other organizations.
Elevator Pitch: LEGO® Serious Play® — Strategic Decision Making & Problem Re...
LEGO® Serious Play® — Strategic Decision Making & Problem Resolution with Fun!
Elevator Pitch.
LEGO® Serious Play is a facilitated method for strategic decision-making and problem resolution in business environments.
You could use LSP for merger & acquisition (M&A) evaluation, SWAT analysis, strategy or vision definition, product development, organisational design/development, brand design, or developing business, department. or team goals - to name a few.
The document provides an introduction to agile methods for executives. It discusses how agile approaches can help organizations adapt to increasingly volatile business environments. The key benefits of agile include shorter time to market, increased productivity, improved alignment with business needs, and greater predictability. The document outlines agile concepts like iterative development, minimal viable products, continuous delivery and focus on customer value. It also summarizes common agile frameworks like Scrum and how agility can be scaled in large organizations.
This document discusses innovation games and techniques for improving brainstorming. It begins with introductions and an exercise to get participants comfortable with failure. Various games and exercises are then presented to trigger creativity and solve problems in new ways, such as "Give Them a Hot Tub" where outrageous ideas are generated, and "Remember the Future" which envisions future success. Real-world scenarios are used to demonstrate how the games could be applied. The document emphasizes creating a culture of innovation and provides resources for running innovation games.
If you work in Scrum environment or you’re just a team member who is trying to guide a conversation – then these interactive facilitation techniques are for you. In this session focus will be on games which you could use in virtual environment.
This document discusses groups, teams, team building, and leadership. It defines groups as collections of individuals who impact each other, while teams have different skills working on a common goal. Teams are formed for mutual support and leveraging talents. Effective team building requires considering stages of forming, storming, norming and performing, as well as establishing norms, roles and expectations. Leadership differs from management in inspiring and developing people rather than directing tasks.
Este documento proporciona 15 consejos para utilizar la metodología LEGO® Serious PlayTM de manera efectiva. Recomienda seguir los 4 pasos del proceso que incluyen plantear un enfoque, construir modelos con significado, compartirlos y reflexionar. También enfatiza la importancia de construir individualmente, pero compartir en grupo, hacer preguntas al modelo en lugar de a la persona, y confiar en el proceso.
Multi-stakeholder 'dry run' using LEGO Serious Play
This presentation was shown during the LEGO Serious Play Facilitator meeting in 2014 by Wiro Kuipers. It illustrates a 'dry run' of a complex multi-stakeholder issue in health and education, using the methodology of LEGO Serious Play.
Lego Serious Play es una metodología radical de innovación para gestionar problemas complejos y fomentar el trabajo colaborativo. Mario Morales, fundador de Innovare, está certificado por LEGO para facilitar estos talleres y ayudarle a construir el futuro de su empresa.
Lego Serious Play como metodología para potenciar el diálogo y las conversaciones en las organizaciones para resolver problemas complejos y analizar entornos donde la creatividad y disponer de diferentes visiones enriquece la propuesta.
Lego Serious Play permite generar talleres y dinámicas que atrapan a los participantes fusionando no sólo la creatividad sino también "atrapar" pensamientos e ideas de los participantes a través de razonamientos y reflexiones intrínsecas que se generan a través de la construcción de los modelos.
Método LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Coaching/Psicología/Terápia
Un método único que trabaja desde el juego, la comunicación y la construcción desde tu realidad del presente a tu creación ideal del futuro. Crearás tu "estrategia" o plan de acción que darás vida mediante los ladrillos y piezas de Lego...hasta jugarás diferentes opciones con sus pros y sus contras. Un recurso potente y con sentido.
LSP es un juego serio utilizado en procesos de formación y consultoría estratégica que ayuda a desarrollar competencias profesionales a través de la construcción y representación de soluciones con piezas de LEGO, fomentando la creatividad y la resolución de problemas.
Lego Serious Play & Business Model CanvasJan Peeters
I made a report on the Lego Serious Play workshop I organized together with Flanders DC. We used the Lego Serious Play method to deliver a business model canvas for an innovative carpet.
Marko Rillo LEGO SERIOUS PLAY at Joomla Annual World Conference - Keynote Ses...Marko Rillo
This document describes a LEGO SERIOUSPLAY workshop held at the Joomla World Conference 2015 to discuss the future of the Joomla community. Participants were led through exercises using LEGO bricks to build models representing themselves, the Joomla content management system, and their visions for the Joomla community in 10 years. They then shared their individual models and collaborated in groups to build a joint representation and commit to actions to make their shared vision a reality. The goal was to engage participants and facilitate creative thinking about the future of the Joomla community through symbolic play and model building.
Serious Work How to Facilitate Meetings and Workshops Using the LEGO® SERIOUS...Marko Rillo
Free preview of the book "Serious Work How to Facilitate Meetings and Workshops Using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Method"
Authors: Sean Blair and Marko Rillo. Published in 2016 by ProMeet.
LEGO® Serious Play® is thriving. How is it that a child's toy, has become a serious strategy tool used by some of the worlds best-known organizations? And what might be the relevance of this method in your work? LEGO® Serious Play® is the result of 15 years development. A powerful method to solve problems, explore ideas and achieve objectives based on management theory using a toy.
Serious Work enables readers to understand what LEGO® Serious Play® is and how it works. This practical and well-designed workbook helps people have better meetings; it shows how LEGO® Serious Play® is used in five common kinds of meeting and workshop, enabling improvement in communication, collaboration and outcomes.
It is intended for people who run meetings. Leaders, managers, facilitators, and coaches who are seeking ways to help teams work-together well, will find this book especially helpful.
Readers who are interested in or responsible for coaching, problem-solving, visioning, team building or strategy will find the ideas challenge conventional meeting norms (thankfully) and offer a different and better way to achieve great meeting outcomes.
The book offers case studies, step-by-step guides, and templates from a range of common applications that you can download and adapt to your own needs.
Our hope is this book gives you the knowledge and confidence to try basic LEGO® Serious Play® techniques before learning more.
The book features advice and case studies from nine other respected LEGO® Serious Play® facilitators from countries including USA, Singapore, Sweden, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, and China. List of co-authors: Patrizia Bertini, Eli De Friend, Mercedes Hoss, Camilla Jensen, Oliver Knapman, Kim Pong Lim, Kristina Nyzell, Dieter Reuther and Maria Stashenko.
This is a preview of the book that was published in 2016. Purchase your full paperback copy via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0995664706/?tag=seriousplay-20 or in eBook format directly via Serious.Global website: http://serious.global/learn/book/
Attend the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator certification training with the authors of the book. Marko Rillo training: http://markorillo.com/lego-serious-play/serious-play-training/ or Sean Blair training: http://serious.global/learn/
The Prime Directive. How To Charter Your Team Best (With LEGO Serious Play)Michael Tarnowski
Team chartering is generally used at the start of a project only, and team charters tend to be quite general and abstract.
In this hands-on session of Agile Cambridge Conference 2015, we will use the 'Lego Serious Play' method to develop a team-specific team charter, which fits individual team goals and can be adapted continuously.
LEGO® Serious Play® — For Managers.
Solve Your Business Challenges Playfully & with Fun!
Condensed version of my LSP presentation for managers & C-level.
LEGO® Serious Play® is a structured, facilitated method. It answers questions rephrasing the business topics. The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. It is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative ideas.
This document describes using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY and the CANVAS methodology to build business models. Some key points:
- Participants use LEGO pieces to physically build models representing different elements of a business model mapped out in the CANVAS framework, including value propositions, customer segments, revenue streams, etc.
- The workshop follows the CANVAS logic but has participants build models for each element instead of just writing them. Models are then arranged on a large printed CANVAS landscape.
- After building all elements, participants identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats by building additional models and arranging them around the landscape.
- Emergence games are played by proposing hypothetical business events and
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Imagination & Creativity for the BusinessPatrizia Bertini
Lego Serious Play is a creative, imaginative and story-telling based approach that since 2002 has been successfully adopted by businesses ad organisations all around the world.
LSP has proved to be an effective solution for team building, strategy, co-creation, concept, conflict resolution…
And its efficacy can be tracked back to the key theories that have been included in the development and formalisation of LSP: from management, Psychology of play, Imagination, Embodied cognition, Metaphors, constructionism… They are all perfectly integrated in the Lego Serious Play experience and deliver unexpected results efficiently. This presentation tells who adopted this approach and the whys.
LEGO® Serious Play®. How To Solve Your Business Challenges PlayfullyMichael Tarnowski
LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) is a structured and facilitated workshop method for strategic decision making and problem resolution in business environments.
LSP answers questions rephrasing the business topics. The models built and their stories shared by the builders are the answers. LSP is a playful and still serious way to create new insights and to develop innovative ideas.
The document discusses using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY methodology to facilitate understanding between groups. It involves using LEGO bricks to build 3D models that represent ideas, helping participants communicate concepts in a hands-on, engaging way. This strengthens collaboration by promoting listening, constructive dialogue, and shared understanding. The methodology allows groups to creatively develop solutions to complex problems and ensure common insights and focus.
Lego® Serious Play® in a Nutshell - by StrategicPlay®StrategicPlay®
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a process that uses LEGO bricks to envision, prototype, and explore solutions to complex problems. Participants build models representing their ideas and visions, and use the models to tell stories and make sense of information in a way that fosters empathy, shared understanding, ownership, and imagination. The process involves skills building, identifying identities, mapping landscapes, exploring scenarios, considering emergent possibilities, and developing guiding principles. The goal is to help groups co-create strategies in an engaging hands-on way.
This Power Point used for developing an action plan for HR department in a some companies in Iran, The method used in this workshop was LEGO Serious Play. In fact during this workshop facilitator tries to push HR Dep. to find their key actions to solve the companies problems.
All your comments are welcomed!!
The document provides an overview of agile estimating and planning techniques. It discusses agile principles like iterative development, self-organizing teams, and rapid delivery of working software. It also covers topics like writing user stories, estimating story points, calculating velocity, product backlog design, sprint planning, daily standups, and sprint reviews. The goal is to teach best practices for agile planning and estimation.
The document discusses agile transformation and cultural change using a lean approach to change management. It describes how organizational culture is like a memeplex that defends against foreign ideas like agility. It advocates using lean change management principles like minimal viable change to introduce agile practices and influence culture. The document recommends establishing a change coalition and change agents to drive transformation through initiatives like creating an inspiring vision, improving feedback, and measuring employee happiness. The overall approach presented is to transform culture, not just adopt practices, by focusing on people and why change is needed.
The document discusses Lego Serious Play, a method that uses Lego blocks to break through mental blocks, fuel imagination, and open minds. It is an immersive participation method where participants build Lego models to represent their ideas in response to a challenge question. This serves as a basis for knowledge sharing, problem solving, and decision making. The hands-on nature of Lego Serious Play activates deeper thinking and allows access to untapped knowledge. It has been used successfully in workshops with major banks and other organizations.
Elevator Pitch: LEGO® Serious Play® — Strategic Decision Making & Problem Re...Michael Tarnowski
LEGO® Serious Play® — Strategic Decision Making & Problem Resolution with Fun!
Elevator Pitch.
LEGO® Serious Play is a facilitated method for strategic decision-making and problem resolution in business environments.
You could use LSP for merger & acquisition (M&A) evaluation, SWAT analysis, strategy or vision definition, product development, organisational design/development, brand design, or developing business, department. or team goals - to name a few.
The document provides an introduction to agile methods for executives. It discusses how agile approaches can help organizations adapt to increasingly volatile business environments. The key benefits of agile include shorter time to market, increased productivity, improved alignment with business needs, and greater predictability. The document outlines agile concepts like iterative development, minimal viable products, continuous delivery and focus on customer value. It also summarizes common agile frameworks like Scrum and how agility can be scaled in large organizations.
This document discusses innovation games and techniques for improving brainstorming. It begins with introductions and an exercise to get participants comfortable with failure. Various games and exercises are then presented to trigger creativity and solve problems in new ways, such as "Give Them a Hot Tub" where outrageous ideas are generated, and "Remember the Future" which envisions future success. Real-world scenarios are used to demonstrate how the games could be applied. The document emphasizes creating a culture of innovation and provides resources for running innovation games.
If you work in Scrum environment or you’re just a team member who is trying to guide a conversation – then these interactive facilitation techniques are for you. In this session focus will be on games which you could use in virtual environment.
This document discusses groups, teams, team building, and leadership. It defines groups as collections of individuals who impact each other, while teams have different skills working on a common goal. Teams are formed for mutual support and leveraging talents. Effective team building requires considering stages of forming, storming, norming and performing, as well as establishing norms, roles and expectations. Leadership differs from management in inspiring and developing people rather than directing tasks.
15 tips about lego serious play methodologyPaco Prieto
Este documento proporciona 15 consejos para utilizar la metodología LEGO® Serious PlayTM de manera efectiva. Recomienda seguir los 4 pasos del proceso que incluyen plantear un enfoque, construir modelos con significado, compartirlos y reflexionar. También enfatiza la importancia de construir individualmente, pero compartir en grupo, hacer preguntas al modelo en lugar de a la persona, y confiar en el proceso.
Multi-stakeholder 'dry run' using LEGO Serious PlayWiro Kuipers
This presentation was shown during the LEGO Serious Play Facilitator meeting in 2014 by Wiro Kuipers. It illustrates a 'dry run' of a complex multi-stakeholder issue in health and education, using the methodology of LEGO Serious Play.
Lego Serious Play es una metodología radical de innovación para gestionar problemas complejos y fomentar el trabajo colaborativo. Mario Morales, fundador de Innovare, está certificado por LEGO para facilitar estos talleres y ayudarle a construir el futuro de su empresa.
Lego Serious Play como metodología para potenciar el diálogo y las conversaciones en las organizaciones para resolver problemas complejos y analizar entornos donde la creatividad y disponer de diferentes visiones enriquece la propuesta.
Lego Serious Play permite generar talleres y dinámicas que atrapan a los participantes fusionando no sólo la creatividad sino también "atrapar" pensamientos e ideas de los participantes a través de razonamientos y reflexiones intrínsecas que se generan a través de la construcción de los modelos.
Método LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Coaching/Psicología/Terápiasertuser
Un método único que trabaja desde el juego, la comunicación y la construcción desde tu realidad del presente a tu creación ideal del futuro. Crearás tu "estrategia" o plan de acción que darás vida mediante los ladrillos y piezas de Lego...hasta jugarás diferentes opciones con sus pros y sus contras. Un recurso potente y con sentido.
LSP es un juego serio utilizado en procesos de formación y consultoría estratégica que ayuda a desarrollar competencias profesionales a través de la construcción y representación de soluciones con piezas de LEGO, fomentando la creatividad y la resolución de problemas.
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Mind Gym for Professional
Excellence
Facilitator: Sohail M. Ali
Dec 26, 2012, Marriott Karachi Investment: PKR 9,000 per participant
Course Objectives:
• Energy and lateral thinking ability to approach any project or challenge.
• Think and communicate clearly; improve your memory, focus, organization, listening and concentration.
• Coordinate your brain and body together to "walk your talk".
• Release physical, mental and emotional stress in just minutes.
• Discover practical tools you can implement immediately.
• Draw out and harness your own personal learning system.
• Create positive, win-win situations at home, in the workplace.
• Use the Brain Gym movements for strategically achieve goals and outcomes.
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The story of Dumbo provides a safe way to discuss important themes with children of all ages. This leader pack includes conversation starters and guided group activities centered around celebrating differences and individual strengths. Activities aim to encourage socialization, self-esteem, and recognizing qualities in others.
Improving communication through improvisation half day workshop student ver...drewz lin
The document discusses improvisation skills and how they can improve communication. It outlines an improvisation workshop agenda that includes warm-up exercises, active listening skills, teamwork activities, and a closing discussion. The workshop teaches skills like listening, flexibility, acceptance and provides tips for improvisation like not overthinking and not worrying about mistakes.
Darthvaderless Daily Scrums - Scrum Australia 2014Renee Troughton
Presented at Scrum Australia 2014 in Sydney on the 22nd of October, this presentation focuses on Daily Scrums that are being heavily command and controlled and seeks to provide solutions to both resolving Darth Vader like behaviour but also having a really effective scrum that is not a progress report.
For more details of the game referred to within (scrumheads) see: http://tastycupcakes.org/2014/07/scrumheads-the-daily-scrum-game/
The document provides instructions for several icebreaker activities for teachers, trainers, and facilitators to use including: having participants write an autobiography in the form of a book with different elements on the pages; putting together a recipe by distributing pieces of it to different groups; and creating an illustrated poster learning their ABCs using descriptive words starting with each letter of their name and drawing a picture. The document also includes tips for choosing icebreakers that tie into the topic and don't make people feel uncomfortable revealing personal information.
This document outlines the habit of creative cooperation or synergizing. It provides an effective paradigm of working together to create something better, and an ineffective paradigm of it being my way or your way with no compromise. It then provides steps to plan the week focusing on mission, priorities, and reviewing previous habits. It outlines meeting with a team to address an issue using a process to arrive at a better solution than any individual could. Finally, it provides instructions to teach others this habit through a video, story, and teaching the value of differences.
This document discusses using LEGO bricks to facilitate collaboration and strategizing in user experience research (UXR). It describes how the presenter was trained in the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY method in Denmark and has since used bricks to help teams work together, build shared experiences, and ensure everyone contributes. The document outlines advantages like ensuring everyone can participate through a common medium and advantages of the formal SERIOUS PLAY program. It provides examples of how bricks can be used with users, stakeholders, and within teams to understand viewpoints, reach consensus, and make sense of complex problems. Planning brick sessions and recording outputs are also discussed.
Half day session to review writing process, beliefs and practices about writing, and prepare to scan our classes and start to consider an inquiry question regarding writing. Grades 2-11, classroom and support teachers.
Guidelines for Great Mobile Games for Kids (GDC 2013)Carla Fisher
This session builds on the foundation established in past Little Hands, Foul Moods, and Runny Noses sessions. Children have unique intellectual and physical needs, which designers must take into account in order to create engaging gaming experiences. This session provides development guidelines for mobile game design for children (ages 0 to 12), with particular emphasis on developmental milestones, usability, and interaction design findings that are relevant to game developers. Findings are grounded in industry and academic research. Participants will take away findings from existing research on kids and games that can be incorporated into their own game development projects. The discussion will be focused on mobile games, but most findings can be generalized for any child gaming project, regardless of platform. The findings will address children's gaming needs (which are significantly different from older audiences), developmental psychology, UI and input design considerations, usability, and use of storytelling devices. Additionally, participants will have access to a summary document with a list of recommended resources, which includes books and research articles.
Group Interaction Patterns - The Keys for Highly Productive Teams (Better Sof...Michael R. Wolf
Development teams often fail to recognize the complex group interactions and multi-person relationships that are critical to build and maintain a highly productive team. Instead, they adopt follow-the-crowd practices such as stand up meetings or Kanban boards without understanding the underlying fundamentals. Michael Wolf introduces group interaction patterns of highly productive development teams to provide a framework for understanding group interactions and a vocabulary for discussing ways to improve. Michael will facilitate a highly-experiential introduction to techniques from 4 group work practices:
* Liberating Structures
* The Core Protocols
* Group Works Card Deck (& Group Works Pattern Language)
* Personal Kanban
1. The document defines collaboration as working together in groups where individuals act in different ways and contribute using various personality traits.
2. An example video about collaboration gone wrong is discussed to understand why collaboration is important.
3. Students work in groups to define collaboration and identify important personality traits for effective collaboration such as being compassionate, tolerant, and contributing calmly.
The document provides 10 tips for being a more agile leader: 1) Refer to agile principles as "common sense", 2) Focus on simplicity, 3) Get the right training from expert trainers, 4) Not everyone can work agilely, so acknowledge limitations, 5) Ensure user stories are fully completed from the start, 6) Refer to Scrum Masters as "facilitators" rather than masters, 7) Think big but start small, 8) Use holistic approaches that connect ideas, 9) Focus on one task at a time, and 10) Continuously learn new concepts and skills.
The document provides an overview of the weekend workout and guidelines for mindset. It recommends doing the weekend workout to gain design skills and practice those skills on future projects. It emphasizes enjoying the process and remaining calm under pressure, which are important design skills. The weekend workout will provide tools and techniques to continue training, even if readers can't run a marathon on Monday.
The Most Helpful Book Ever Published!!!!THOMASANTTI1
Having an interest in Psychology and Sociology led to exploring the behavior and personality of people.
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This means no more struggling in your life trying to guess:
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This book is certainly very informative, and you will learn fascinating concepts to understand people better.
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The Interplay of Emotional Intelligence and Personality Development: Insights...Tim Han Success Insider
Discover the critical connection between emotional intelligence and personality development in this presentation. Explore how self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills shape our personalities and influence our interactions. Learn from Tim Han, a renowned personality development speaker, and his Success Insider channel, which offers Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) courses. Gain practical strategies for personal growth and unlock your potential by mastering emotional intelligence.
Life 3.0-Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.pdfDragan704596
Contents
Cover
Also by Max Tegmark
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Prelude: The Tale of the Omega Team
1 Welcome to the Most Important Conversation of Our Time
A Brief History of Complexity
The Three Stages of Life
Controversies
Misconceptions
The Road Ahead
2 Matter Turns Intelligent
What Is Intelligence?
What Is Memory?
What Is Computation?
What Is Learning?
3 The Near Future: Breakthroughs, Bugs, Laws, Weapons and Jobs
Breakthroughs
Bugs vs. Robust AI
Laws
Weapons
Jobs and Wages
Human-Level Intelligence?
4 Intelligence Explosion?
Totalitarianism
Prometheus Takes Over the World
Slow Takeoff and Multipolar Scenarios
Cyborgs and Uploads
What Will Actually Happen?
5 Aftermath: The Next 10,000 Years
Libertarian Utopia
Benevolent Dictator
Egalitarian Utopia
Gatekeeper
Protector God
Enslaved God
Conquerors
Descendants
Zookeeper
1984
Reversion
Self-Destruction
What Do You Want?
6 Our Cosmic Endowment: The Next Billion Years and Beyond
Making the Most of Your Resources
Gaining Resources Through Cosmic Settlement
Cosmic Hierarchies
Outlook
7 Goals
Physics: The Origin of Goals
Biology: The Evolution of Goals
Psychology: The Pursuit of and Rebellion Against Goals
Engineering: Outsourcing Goals
Friendly AI: Aligning Goals
Ethics: Choosing Goals
Ultimate Goals?
8 Consciousness
Who Cares?
What Is Consciousness?
What’s the Problem?
Is Consciousness Beyond Science?
Experimental Clues About Consciousness
Theories of Consciousness
Controversies of Consciousness
How Might AI Consciousness Feel?
Meaning
Epilogue: The Tale of the FLI Team
Note
Taming the Mind Embracing Mindfulness with Mental NotingSarahWawrzyniak1
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Excel in Public Speaking Skills - Master Class.DrPrasadVSVPhD
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1. Think with your Hands:
– How to get started with
Lego Serious Play
Martin Sandberg
2013
2. You can discover more about a person in an
hour of play than in a year of conversation
-Plato
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3. What bricks to use?
• Use the most basic Lego bricks
• They enable thinking in metaphors
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4. When to use Lego Serious Play?
• Team building
• Unleashing creative thinking for accelerated innovation
• Work out a solution to a shared problem
• Create a shared mindset about something
• Constructive discussions where everybody is heard
• Build a shared vision
• Leadership development
• One-on-one coaching and Team coaching
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• Use with your children, family, school, ...
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5. Think with your hands
Just start building. Trust your hands.
Let them pick the bricks they want.
Fiddle about ...
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6. Lego Serious Play – Steps
1. The Challenge - Question
2. Build a model – Metaphor
3. Sharing – Give meaning – Tell your story
4. Questions and reflections
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7. Warm Up – Skills Building
1. Normal, non-metaphorical representation
2. Metaphorical representation
3. Combine models into a shared group model
4. Storytelling
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8. Warm Up Excercises
• Build a duck, 5-10 min
• Build a tower, 10 min
• Build something; assign a description – metaphor, 10
• Build your dream colleague – metaphor, 10 min
• My Monday mornings – story line, 10 min
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9. Duck
• Build a duck using 7 bricks
• Explain how it is a duck
– Are different people’s ducks similar?
• Now remove 3 bricks so that you have 4 left
• Explain how it is still a duck
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10. Highest Tower
Either individually or as teams:
• Build the highest tower you can in 3 min
– It should be able to stand without any support
– You cannot reserve bricks
• Share something about your tower – explain what it
means
– Point out differences in the towers – no right or
wrong way of building
– Explain how you reasoned in the beginning. Who did
what? Did you assign roles? Did you split the work?
– Test for stability – show attachment to something we
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have built when it breaks or is disassembled
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11. Dream Colleague
1. Build a model that represents your Dream Colleague, 3
min
• Share, 1 min per person
• The facilitator asks questions to better understand the
meanings of different parts of the models
2. Take one aspect from each model and make a shared
model with the others in the team and place it on a paper
napkin
• Everybody should agree on all the parts of the shared
model.
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• Everybody on the team explains the shared model
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12. My Monday Mornings
1. Build a story describing your Monday
Mornings, 3-4 mins
• Share your metaphor and storyline
2. Take one part which you think is most
important and put it in the middle and build a
model together with everyone else in the group
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13. Build Something and Re-Interpret It
1. Build whatever you feel like building, 3 min
2. The facilitator assigns a meaning to the model
3. The participant explains how the model represents X, 1 min. E.g. ”My
dream holiday is to scuba dive. My model describes the boat and ...”
Examples of meanings to assign:
• Your dream holiday
• The ideal home
• Your favorite activity
• An ingenious invention
• Your favorite song
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• A relaxing day
• Your neighbor
• The car of the future
• Your favourite TV show or movie 13
14. Listen with your eyes
Look at the model that is being shared
– use your visual sense to grasp and understand even
more of what the other participants are describing
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16. A) Future Success
1. Build a model which shows the road blocks to
your immediate and future success
2. Build a model describing what your future
will look like without the barriers
3. Build a model which shows what you need
from others and yourself to knock down the
barriers to your success
4. Combine your models which will show how
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you will get support from the team/group
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17. B) Team Member
1. Build a model showing who you are on the team
– What do you bring to the team?
– What could you bring to the team?
– Build some of the functions that you carry out on the
job, also include some hidden aspects of you
2. Build an addition to your model that shows how
you think others in your team perceive you
3. Who are you at your best?
– Build an addition to your model showing your
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thoughts about this – what characterizes you when
you are at your best?
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18. C) Team
1. Build an individual model showing how you
perceive your team:
– Show what you believe your team is all about
– What is the spirit of the team?
– The feel of the team?
– The values of the team?
2. Build a shared model that shows what your
team is all about
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– What is the team’s shared perception of the team?
– What is the spirit and the ‘feel’ of the team?
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19. D) Team Aspirations
1. Build a individual model showing what you
aspire to be like as a team in the future
2. Build a shared model
• Each person explains each part of the shared
model
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20. E) Team Goals
• Build a model describing the goals for the
team
• Build a model describing the objectives to
meet the goals (first steps to meet the goals)
• Build a model with the objectives in the form
of a storyline to show when in time they
should be completed
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21. F) How do you see yourself?
• Build a model describing how you see yourself
in your role (team member, Scrum Master,
Product Owner, Manager, ... )
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22. G) Your role
• Build a model describing your role on the
team
• What is easy in your role?
• What is difficult in your role?
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23. H) Strengths and Weaknesses
A. Build a model showing the strengths of your
Product, Team, Organization, ...
B. Build a model describing how you can utilize
the strengths
1. Build a modell showing the weaknesses
2. Build a model describing how you can
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remove or compensate for the weaknesses
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24. J) Appreciation
1. Build a model describing what you
appreciated in the workshop
2. Build a model describing what you would like
to change in a future similar workshop
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25. K) Retrospectives
1. Build a model describing what went well
2. Build a model describing things that we
should start or stop doing
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26. How does Lego Serious Play work?
• Much of our brain’s activity is dedicated to
the manipulation of our hands
• When we model with our hands and tell
stories there is more neuronal activity and
better suffusion of blood to critical areas of
the brain
• 70-80% of our brain’s nerve endings are
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connected to our hands
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27. How does Lego Serious Play work?
• Psychological Flow: Individuals gain most from
a learning process when they are committed
to and enjoy the process
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28. The Facilitator
• Creates Open-ended building challenges
• Gets the group’s dialogue to serve its purpose
• Makes the reflections and dialogue process
easier
• Helps participants express themselves
• Asks clarifying questions
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29. Participants’ Etiquette
• The Lego model is your answer to the building
challenge
• There are no wrong answers
• There is no ONE right answer – everyone has
different views
• What the model looks like is not the most
important thing
• The meaning attached to each model is what
makes it valuable
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• The Lego models are tools and means to an end
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30. Group Size
• Roughly 4-8 people per group
• One workshop group requires one facilitator
• It is generally not possible to facilitate two
groups ‘side by side’ because each group
would need focused attention from the
facilitator, at the same time
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31. Play !
• Put bowls of Lego bricks in your meeting
rooms and see what happens
• Combine Lego Serious Play with other
facilitation techniques
• Play around with the Lego bricks and invent
new challenges
• Get your workshops to a flying start by
starting with Lego Serious Play to get people
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talking and energized
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32. References
• seriousplay.com
• strategicplayroom.ning.com
• seriousplaypro.com
• Open source introduction document:
LSP Introduction
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• User requirements with Lego: LSP and User
Requirements
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33. Talks you might find interesting
• The future depends on play:
The future depends on play_Seriouslythemovie
• Tim Brown: Tales of creativity and play
ted.com/talks/lang/en/tim_brown_on_creativity
_and_play.h
• Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
ted.com/talks/lang/en/ken_robinson_says_schoo
ls_kill_creativity.html
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• Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!
ted.com/talks/sunni_brown.html
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34. Food for Thought
• How come executives love playing with Lego?
• Why do we associate work with ’serious’ and play with ’not
serious’ ?
• How can you use Lego Serious Play when you have
distributed teams?
• Is Lego Serious Play still ’serious’ when it is used in schools?
• What is a ’lean in’ vs. a ’lean back’ meeting?
• How long can you keep your fingers away from a pile of
Lego bricks (e.g. in a meeting room)?
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• You can download this presentation here:
slidesha.re/ONgvsj
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Editor's Notes
Lego Serious Play:It’s play with a serious purposeTo enhance your personal effectiveness and your business performanceA facilitated process for groups and teams which fosters creative thinkingExplores relationships and connections in organizationsBuild a shared identityCreate a shared vision
An alternative: Build a model which shows the road blocks to THE TEAM’s immediate and future success. Etc.
Each person tells the story about the team, describing the shared model.
Put bowls of Lego bricks in common areas like the pantry or the window sill in the stairway.
Lego Serious Play for Education: http://youtu.be/2TbTa31ACB4