Change Management with Lego Serious Play
Strategy, innovation, creativity, and solutions.
By PEDRO SOLÓRZANO
Change Management with Lego Serious Play
As part of its annual event, the Schüco Madrid team got together to carry out a fun and creative activity with the aim of alienating the participants and having their best ideas to improve and manage change more effectively.
The vehicle used was LEGO® Serious Play (LSP), a game methodology that uses a specially designed set of LEGO blocks to encourage creativity, innovative thinking, and communication among group members.
LEGO can be an invaluable tool for fostering creativity, innovative thinking, and communication among group members. Working with LEGO stimulates curiosity, learning, and collaborative skills.
For example, groups can use LEGO to create projects with creative solutions to real problems. This helps them to think critically and develop teamwork skills. Projects also allow group members to discuss ideas, analyze their mistakes and make decisions together.
In addition, LEGO activities also promote various forms of thinking and problem solving. Participants must use their imagination to come up with new ideas and creative solutions to complex challenges. Stimulates their ability to communicate effectively by presenting their ideas to the group and listening to the opinions of others.
LEGO activities are fun and interactive, which motivates group members to actively participate in the process. This improves trust between them and strengthens their commitment to the project or task at hand.
Engagement in Change Management with Lego Serious Play
En la sesión, los participantes se dividieron primero en grupos de trabajo y, a continuación, cada uno de ellos construyó una maqueta con ladrillos LEGO para representar de forma individual los principales retos relacionados con la gestión del cambio y su aplicación en la organización.
LEGO block models can be excellent tools to help all participants better understand the challenges related to change management in an organization. LEGO bricks can help visualize the complexity of the change process and its various stages.
LEGO bricks can help visualize the complexity of the change process
For example, a leader can build a model with LEGO bricks during the workshop to represent the strategic planning process an organization goes through during a change. The model could include different types of bricks to represent the different elements, such as objectives, strategy, planning, implementation, and evaluation. This visualization could help the leader to better understand the challenges related to business change management and design effective plans to address them.
In addition, this type of fun and creative activity could also encourage collaboration among all team members and create new ways of approaching problems. These visual representations helped group members share their ideas more effectively and gain a better understanding of the situation.
Gaining knowledge, learning from others
Once these individual representations were completed, the groups discussed their ideas in teams and constructed shared landscapes with the sum of the individual constructions. Participants used the method to experiment and provide suggestions for improving organizational change management while lowering resistance to change.
The 10 groups with their constructions of the environment and culture of the change to be implemented, expressed their ideas professionally and creatively to the other groups. This still improved participation, knowledge, and understanding of the process necessary for a good response and adaptation to the continuous changes to which we are subjected in the current context.
The results of the session were a series of useful and innovative solutions and ideas to improve change management in the company. These were translated into a word cloud that synthesized the analysis and strategy to be followed in real time.
In short, the session with the LEGO® Serious Play® methodology has been a fun and creative experience that has helped the members of the company to deal with change management more effectively. This gamification tool has proven to be an excellent way to engage company members in a collaborative process to address the challenges associated with change management.
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