LEGO SERIOUS  PLAY- Short cut to real issues and innovation

Research shows, that hands-on, minds-on learning produces a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the world- much more than listening and reading. The human mind is designed to work in three dimensions: when using the hands an increased portion of our mind is used – a process called emotional charge.
As a result thoughts and ideas which have been built by hand are not only more easily understood and better remembered, but can also be expressed in greater detail. Even though these facts are common knowledge in the scientific community, the business world is still focused on two dimensional mediums like paper or visual presentations .

LEGO SERİOUS PLAY is the first application of LEGO Bricks – the toy of the 20th century, in the serious adult and business world.
		Together with the globally renowned IMD Business school effective applications incorporating state-of –the-art research findings from learning theory and organizational behaviour have been developed suitable for individuals, teams and enterprises:

	Strategy development and exploration
	Relations to Customers, Distribution partners and suppliers and other stakeholders
	Organizational development
	Teambuilding
	Product Development and Innovation
	Change Management
	Post Merger Facilitation

When applying LEGO SERIOUS PLAY three-dimensional landscapes created by Lego bricks become metaphors for real situations the organization faces and describe even very complex situations without omitting important details.
Through the use of bricks, giving them meaning through story-telling, and playing-out various scenarios valuable insight how a company, organizational unit or team works and how it connects and interacts with its environment can be gained and strong bonds between the participants can be created.

These innovative, bottom up methodologies involve all participants and due to the underlying technique with the bricks and built models  working  as a catalyst  they exchange opinions more freely without the fear of getting personal, express their needs and ideas more understandable through a shared working language and let their imagination flow unobstructed into new directions.
		Through the concrete visualization of reality also the tacit knowledge emerges, enabling the discovery of facts and relations managers have been previously unaware of.  In this sense LSP works like an incubator to let the mind form and organize new thoughts and like a short-cut to real issues, new knowledge and innovation.

Business Strategies developed based on LEGO SERIOUS PLAY tend to be more comprehensive, coherent and interdisciplinary. Insights and action points gained from using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY are immediately actionable, because the insights are coming from people who will implement them.
The system view with key success drivers and their interrelations assures that not the symptoms, but the underlying causes of key problems are addressed.  The strategies are more robust as they are anchored in reality and experience and extracted simple guiding principles offer a decision framework for decisions under changing conditions.

Employees and team member having been heard and treated equal return to work highly motivated due to increased confidence, commitment and insights.

LEGO SERIOUS PLAY offers no readymade canned solutions- it is all about generative learning and unframed problem solving. Results emerge from the participants, their verbalized experiences, shared identities and the future scenarios simulated. LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is an efficient tool for crafting the situation. The process must be facilitated by consultants from within the dedicated SERIOUS PLAY partner network, which have been thoroughly trained on the methodology. Kaleideskop Management Consulting & Training is the only authorized implementation partner in Turkey.