: LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Meetup
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
Time:
Speaker: Laxman Murugappan
Host: TBA
Location: TBA
About the meetup
Laxman Murugappan and Nelkinda will explore ways how to use LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to explore its utility for agile projects. We will look at, not limited to, various aspects:
- Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to develop better product visions
- Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to develop better process visions
- Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® for retrospectives
- Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® for organizational transformation
Speaker
Laxman is founder PlayThinkTransform & co-founder of AcademyOfCustomerExperience Consultancy and one of the driving member for LSP Community India and has 17 years of experience in Technology sector. A certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator (LSP) (2016), helping organizations identify growth opportunities and solve business problems using SERIOUS PLAY and gamification. He has conducted more than 300 + LSP Workshop with one playful LEGO® brick at a time, Laxman & the PlayThinkTransform team aspires to transform the current work ecosystem of the country into a playful, fun yet serious & meaningful playground. He is also a certified game design expert, a certified customer experience champion coach and primarily looks at CX in areas of process innovation, service excellence, technology solutions & enterprise architecture.
About LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a facilitation methodology developed at The LEGO® Group. Since 2010 it is available under an open source community-based model. Its goal is improving creative thinking and communication. People build with LEGO® bricks 3-dimensional models of their ideas and tell stories about their models. Hence the name "serious play".
The remaining description in this chapter is copied from the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® - Play Think Transform Website with permission from Laxman Murugappan. Copyright Laxman Murugappan, All Rights Reserved.
What is LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) is a facilitated meeting, communication, and problem-solving method, where participants are led through a series of questions, which go deeper and deeper.
In LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, it's not you discovering the bricks, it's the bricks discovering you and your team.
Why LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®?
- Is an experiential framework
- Blends experience with experimentation
- Engages one in the world of play and storytelling
- Enables thinking in an accelerated and all-inclusive way
- Empowers thought process leadership
- Can be customized for any given business framework
- Enables visual interactive thinking
- Kindles creative pursuit
- Opens up to new possibilities & unknown/unnoticed insights
- Strives to push boundaries
- Transforms to achieve desired outcomes
- Unearth rich insights in lesser time, 40-60% of which are directly and immediately actionable
Where can LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® be used?
The purpose of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is to maximize the full potential, insight, confidence, and commitment of all the people around the table.
- Collaboration
- Ideation
- Individual mentoring and executive development
- Unlocking & unblocking mindsets
- Culture Co-creation & transformation
- Design Thinking & Service Design
- Innovation & Co-Innovation
- Systems Thinking
- Customer Experience Transformation
- Facilitate constructive dialog
- Visual & 3D Storytelling
- Generating new solutions to complex challenges
- Uniting a team around a common goal
- Building a deeper and broader understanding of a challenge or problem
- Preparing a team to deliver a solution in a complex, unpredictable environment
- Create a vision or mission statement
- Leadership development
- Change management
- Strategy development and exploration
- Innovation and product development