Strategic Thinking Mindset Incorporating Lego® Serious Play ® Method

Course Objectives

At the end of the day, participants would:

• • Understand the need to manage multiple business portfolios in today’s competitive business landscape. Single business model would not be a sustainable plan.
  • Understand and reflected on the need to make choices – strategy is about making choices strategically based with the end in mind (ambition of the organization)
  • Understand that managing a business s not a one person’s job/task. It requires collaboration from all involved, especially in today’s rapidly changing business landscape
  • Understand and reflect on today’s way of managing a business or leading a team – requires knowledge in finance, operation, business, sales, innovation, understanding of customers and market – your role is not just about managing single portfolio of work
  • Fine tuning your leadership skills – communication, working as a team (vertical and horizontal), managing business performance and stakeholders (internal & external), strategic & creative thinking
  • Understanding the innovation strategy of a business in the 21st Century
  • Understands the fundamentals of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and experiencing it to ideate by allowing 100% contribution, unlocking new learnings and knowledge, contribute to the meaning of the idea and tapping into your subconscious mind
  • Allowing divergent to take place before converging into the one right idea/solution (breaking the habitual way of thinking)

Target Audience

Managers

Methodology

• The methodology allows 100% participation from all participants involved.
• The bricks serve as the medium and opinions can be express in a neutral manner instead of feelinglike a personal attack during the process of finding out the challenges in the past. It will allow participants to express freely without feeling obligated to comply to “what should be said”.
• Small group involved will allow participants to gain a higher level of trust among each other, further understanding, and allow commitments towards each other, team and organisation. The participants build metaphorical models, which hold complex information that is communicated through the process of story-telling. Through this process, even those who are not skilled in constructing can be empowered to express themselves creatively. Hence, complex challenges are discussed in an engaging manner and ideas and scenarios are expressed through the shared language of metaphors.
• In LEGOÒ Serious PlayÒ method, the LEGO bricks serve as common language that anyone can use, regardless of their education, position or culture. This ensures everybody’s knowledge and insights are surfaced.
• The starting focuses of LEGOÒ Serious PlayÒ method in one each individual and not the group. This means that the structure of the process requires everyone to be actively involved in the decision and agreements after their meeting.
• The LEGOÒ Serious PlayÒ method produces more concrete ideas and results, because everyone has time to build his or her answers and input before conversation and knowledge sharing begin.
• The LEGOÒ Serious PlayÒ method ensures faster and better metaphors and stories. This also leads to fewer misunderstanding
• The LEGOÒ Serious PlayÒ method meetings/workshops stay on topic because the focus is on the bricks – not on the individual. This also allows the discussion to become very intense without creating personal conflicts.

Course Modules

• ICE BREAKER

  • WELCOMING PARTICIPANTS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE DAY

   

  INTRODUCTION TO TRANSFORM!

  • WHAT IS TRANSFORM! SIMULATOR
  • THE TWO LENSES OF STRATEGY
  • BUILDING STRATEGIC CAPABILITIES USING TRANSFORM! SIMULATOR

   

  SIMULATION(START OF SIMULATION)

  • YOUR TASKS & ROLES
  • UNDERSTAND STRATEGY IS ABOUT CHOICES
  • WHAT’S YOUR STRATEGY TO REACH THE SET GOAL?
  • THE IDEA OF THE FIRM

   

  SIMULATION & CORPORATE FINANCE 101

  • YOUR CHOICES DEFINE YOUR STRATEGY
  • BALANCING MULTIPLE BUSINESS MODEL PORTFOLIOS
  • COMMUNICATION AND MAKING DECISIONS AS A TEAM
  • TRANSFORM TRIANGLE (BALANCING ACT)
  • WORKING IN SILO DOESN’T WORK, CROSS FUNCTIONAL UNDERSTANDING ENABLE STRATEGIC CHOICES
  • MANAGEMENT REVIEW I
  • STRATEGIC DILEMMA – WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

   

  SIMULATION & MANAGING ROADBLOCKS

  • HOW DOES THE TEAM REACT TO CHALLENGES?
  • HOW DO YOU MANAGE THE ROADBLOCKS? HOW FLEXIBLE IS YOUR STRATEGY?
  • THINKING STRATEGICALLY (MEASURING THE EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL FACTORS)
  • STRATEGY REVIEW AND INTRODUCTION OF INNOVATION STRATEGY
  • MANAGINGSTAKEHOLDERS (SHAREHOLDERS EXPECTATIONS)
  • MANAGEMENT REVIEW II

   

  SIMULATION & COLLABORATION

  • DEAL MAKING (M&A)
  • CAN YOU MAKE IT TO THE END GOAL WITH YOUR TEAM?

   

  CLOSING

  • DEBRIEF AND CLOSING

   

  REFRESHER

  • RECAP OF DAY 1

   

  INTRODUCTION TO LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) METHOD

  • THE FUNDAMENTAL OF LSP METHOD
  • THE USE OF METAPHOR
  • UNDERSTANDING THE DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVES AND CONVERSATION CREATED USING THE METHODOLOGY

   

  REFLECTION ON BUSINESS

  • WHAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF A BUSINESS?
  • WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO OPERATE A BUSINESS IN TODAY’S RAPID CHANGING LANDSCAPE?

   

  IDEATION

  • IDEATION PROCESS, STARTS FROM INDIVIDUAL TO TEAM
  • DIVERGENT VS CONVERGENT
  • WHAT WOULD BE THE IDEAL WAY
  • IDEATE FROM THE PROBLEM STATEMENT

   

  IDEATION

  • STRATEGYING YOUR GAME PLAN
  • COLLABORATION – OPEN, UNRESTRICTED AND UNENCUMBOURED CONVERSATION AMONG THE TEAM MEMBERS
  • ADJUSTMENT OF IDEAS FROM FEEDBACK

   

  MOVING FORWARD

  • WHAT WOULD YOU START DOING TOMORROW REFLECTING FROM THE WORKSHOP?

   

  CLOSING

  DEBRIEF AND CLOSING