LEGO® Serious Play® for serious work

• A network of bridges built across all 23 tables in one short challenge
• Two key behaviours and two ways of working, chosen by the room itself
• More than 600 anonymous written contributions during the day
• A 60 to 90 day pilot plan for leadership, built from the room's own models and words

"Even though we are in different teams, we all have the same struggles."A participant, in the anonymous workshop poll

• A shared vision of a collaborative cross-campus team
• Simple guiding principles every member can use when deciding
• Ideas for living each principle, captured on gridcards

• A strategy built on what every member of staff said
• Four strategic themes, OKRs and nine long-term goals
• Over 400 ideas from staff, 35 taken forward to senior leaders

"The On Purpose project was the foundation for the strategy process that followed. It helped create our four strategic themes, our OKRs and our nine long-term goals that drives the work we do today."Sandy Wilson, Executive Director of People and Strategy, The Insights Group

• One Meta-Model© combining every person's vision
• More than 40 forces mapped around the vision
• Two leverage points prioritised for action

"He took a group of 28 smart, diverse, yet also critical data scientists and economists, ranging from junior to board level, and led us to a unified vision for our Data Science practice."Dr Sebastian Wernicke, Partner, Oxera

• A shared vision that moved from helping individuals to transforming the whole prison
• Around 33 forces in the system named and connected
• The work is now in its second pilot

• A shared model of core, external and aspirational identity
• A system model connecting the agents that affect the vision
• Simple guiding principles for future decisions

"Facilitation is one of those activities that too many people think they can do well. Some of those people should watch you at work: professional, firm, authoritative, gracious and focused on the outcome we wanted."Jonathan Drori CBE, Chairman, Ravensbourne Board of Governors

• Scenarios for the future of medical congresses
• Take-home innovation strategies for every participant
• A 362-page book of outputs, produced during the summit

"Sean Blair is one of the finest program facilitators I've ever had the pleasure of working with. He is amazingly thoughtful in his approach and his preparation is impeccable."Kelly Peacy, Senior Vice President, Education and Events, PCMA

• A shared team vision, built in LEGO® bricks
• Agreed values and behaviours
• A 90-day action plan for every team member

"The workshop delivered well above the outcomes expected, due in large part to the innovative methodology Sean applied through Lego Serious Play and the effort taken by Sean to understand our team, our context and our ambition."Edward Bignold, Director, Hotel Performance and Operations Support Europe, IHG

• Shared mental models of ambition and direction
• Scenarios played in real time
• Strategic priorities agreed by the board

"Set with the challenging task of building alignment within a diverse team of directors, Sean managed to bring some much needed clarity and simplicity to an extremely complex vision."Serge Radovcic, Chief Communications Officer, RIPE NCC

• A meta-model combining eight table visions
• A picture of 'working together better' in the future perfect
• Agreed positive and negative behaviours

• 35 detailed ideation maps
• 120 insights on demand and on current services
• 10 roadmaps of future service landscapes, recorded on film

"Despite the unreasonably short notice, Sean's experience and professionalism meant he was able to design and lead an incredibly fun day of creative codesign activities."Audree Fletcher, Head of UKTI Ideas Lab

• Four scenarios and videos on the future of chapters
• 13 Open Space session reports
• Individual action plans and learning insights

"Sean did a fantastic job facilitating our European Chapter Business Summit in Copenhagen. We received great feedback from the 40 participants."Federico Toja, Meeting Professionals International

• Five simple guiding principles
• Agreed values and positive behaviours
• Principles now part of the staff induction manual

"In a short space of time he was able to gain the trust of our team and arm them with the skills needed to consider, articulate and select what we're striving to be."Jim Bowes, Managing Director, Manifesto

• A shared vision of the team's purpose
• Agreed positive behaviours, and the negative ones to avoid
• Plans to drive change, and individual action plans

"Right from the initial call, he helped develop the agenda and identify sessions to make the best use of the day in achieving its outcomes."Shah Irani, Lead Programme Manager, Waitrose

• A shared view of the team's strengths
• Ideas senior management could act on
• A full set of workshop outputs

"One of my biggest gripes with any workshop is keeping the attention of everyone participating. However, with Sean's session we could have easily gone on without anyone starting to lose momentum."Sundeep Bhardwaj, Commercial Analyst, Pernod Ricard

• Peer feedback on leadership strengths
• A shared vision, recorded as a told story
• Positive and negative behaviours, in models

"Even the tiniest detail has been carefully thought through. We had fun and came out of the day with important learning."Rita Fevereiro, Marketing Manager, FutureLearn

• Five root-cause problems identified
• Recommendations on teamwork, resources and decision making
• Better relationships between academics and managers

"The great thing about Lego Serious Play in this context was that it allowed the group to have an adult conversation about the timetabling system without judgement or blame."Nicky Riley, Project Manager, LCC

• The four biggest challenges associations face
• Insights from nine breakout sessions
• 1,000+ gridcards and 66 LEGO® models

"Sean has almost single-handedly taken us on a journey from wish list 'what if's' to help improve our programme to a reality of total delegate engagement and interaction."Natasha Richards, Manager, Partnerships and Association Relations, IMEX Group

• 150 individual models of personal learning
• 36 shared models of the future railway

"The LEGO Serious Play session went really well and I heard lots of positive comments on the day."Giulia Lorenzini, Partnerships Manager, RSSB