Lego Serious Play Workshop for Adventures with Agile
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Welcome! Please sit with people you don’t know
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®A “leaning-in” 100-100 meeting.Ah lovely. A traditional meeting.
Technical skills
Story telling - using three modes of communication
Bricks as metaphors
Listening - eyes & ears
How to be a LEGO Serious Play Ninja in 30 minutes or so.
You need four skills
Technical skill
Build a tower.
Three modes of communication - Demo
Learning to tell the story of the model
Listening with eyes (and ears)
Share modelsNow you briefly share yours on your tables - 20 seconds each
Or about one breath of explanation.
I’ll ting a bell every 20 seconds to tell you to move to the next person…
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® - Etiquette Your model is your answer to the question/challenge.
There are no wrong answers.
Think with your hands. Trust your hands.
Listen with your eyes, as well as your ears.
Everyone builds, everyone tells.
Select 5 bricks and connect them in any random wayRecycle your tower bricks
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Explain this!Practicing creative thinking and using metaphors is helpful.
We can give bricks any meaning we want.
You don’t need sophisticated Lego technical skills, because you can
make a brick mean anything you like.
A polar bear Good health Democracy Cake!
Explain this!
Go round the tables left to right: First person: Explain this!
My best friend…
seconds
Go round the tables left to right: Explain this!
What I dream of…
seconds
Go round the tables left to right: Explain this!
Space travel…
seconds
Go round the tables left to right: Explain this!
Government…
seconds
Go round the tables left to right: Explain this!
Genetic engineering…
seconds
You can see how you can give your bricks and your models the meaning you’d like, to explain any idea you’d like.
Explain this!
Story Telling
In this next exercise… think with your hands - don’t have a meeting with yourself.
Build a model to show your dream holiday
Story Telling - listening with eyes
In 1 minute, tell your stories
I’ll ting a bell every 60 seconds to tell you to move to the next person…
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® - Core process
Question Build Share Reflect
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® helps…
Get 100% participation
People think before they speak
Get everyones unique insight
Improve outgoing communication
Improve incoming understanding
Focus on the message (not messenger)
Scrum values
Work Alone.
Build a model to show the nature of <insert the value on your table here> in Scrum.
Focus, Courage, Openness, Commitment, Respect
SpeakersTell the story of the model
Touch and point to the of the model
Look at the model (not the people) as you talk.
100% eyes and hands on model
ListenersListen with your eyes (as well as ears)
100% eyeballs on the part of the model being touched
Be curious about what parts, colours connections mean.
1. min each
Reflections?
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® - Levels /applications
Application Technique 2 - Shared Models
Build a shared model to show the nature of <insert the value on your table here> in Scrum
Begin by recapping (in 5 words) the most important part of your model.
Build a shared model to show the nature of <insert the value on your table here> in Scrum
Lets hear a story!
Use a pointer to touch and tell the story
Take turns
Reflections?
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® - ApplicationsLevel 1 - Build Individual Models
Level 2 - Build Shared Models
Level 3 - Create a Landscape
Level 4 - Make Connections
Level 5 - Build a System
Level 6 - Playing Emergence and Decisions
Level 7 - Extract Simple Guiding Principles
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Your Questions?
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