Alan Branagh (pictured, right) presented his workshop in which he introduces Lego SeriousPlayTM to members of The Academy for Chief Executives experiential business learning® groups this month. Alan explained that he originally discovered Lego SeriousPlayTM when he was searching for a tool to help with collaboration cross-function across organisations.
Lego SeriousPlayTM
The use of story-telling, metaphor and play are utilised to represent strategy or key factors affecting a business in 3 dimensions. “Those factors may be relationships or perhaps something that could happen, but hasn’t happened yet.” Alan explained, “It gives you a deeper insight into your business.”
The main points that MD and CEO members took away were many and varied – demonstrating how well this day teases out different things for different people. The most frequently mentioned were:
- Recognition of different perspectives
- Thinking differently
- Enabling greater focus
- Facilitating emotional detachment from own ideas and emotional engagement of others
- Challenging continuously
- Allowing creative problem solving
Members’ positive feedback was reflected in their scores – the highest rating for a speaker on our programme so far!
“Using lego to run our ‘Board You Could Never Afford®’ session provided real engagement in the process which ultimately led to practical solutions to business issues.”
Jane Hunt,
Chairman, Academy Group ECHG 01
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