“Here we go again. Another change. These change projects never come in on time or on budget and I am fatigued from it all. We often go around in one big circle.” Does this sound familiar to you?
Change is a constant in the current business environment, whether it’s incremental or transformational and radical change. How we lead organizational change dictates whether there is a successful outcome. The world-renowned LEGO® Serious Play® process is your powerful tool to overcome the challenges that change initiatives create.
Gavin Wedell outlines the four typical responses to change: critics who vocally oppose the change; victims who panic and over-emphasize the negative side of the change; the bystanders who aren’t involved or engaged. The change navigator is ultimately who you would like to have onboard – the person who is able to adapt to the new circumstances.
The LEGO® Serious Play® method ensures that you can create more change navigators who are prepared to lean into the shifts that happen because of changing customer demands, market conditions and competitive environments.
Here’s a process that is easy to implement:
Firstly, teams are more encouraged to participate actively in change initiatives if they understand the ‘why’ before they receive the ‘how’ including more details and data.
During a LEGO® Serious Play® session, participants are guided through a process of building their own models and then combining them ultimately into a group landscape or super story. The method involves constructing models out of LEGO® bricks that reflect non-tangible points of view and ideas. This is ideal during times of change as participants build models in response to questions such as: What will the future look like once the change is completed? How will our team or our organization behave and operate once we complete this change initiative?
Secondly, the LEGO® Serious Play® process gives everyone in the room a voice. 100% of the people participate in that each person builds a model and tells the story of their model. This ensures that there is a sense of inclusivity as a foundation to the change process. Exclusion is the enemy of a successful change program.
The LEGO® Serious Play® process also serves as a fire-starter for deeper conversations. These happen at a far more intensive level because the more people’s hands move, the more their ideas emerge.
Finally, the LEGO® Serious Play® process supports many change project milestones no matter which project management methodology is being followed. It is often used to kick-start a project team and ensure that they bond well with a common goal. It’s a great icebreaker to bring the team together to function cohesively. The process is also used by agile teams for stand-up progress meetings and for retrospectives to identify where successes lie or where there could be improvements.
The best part of the LEGO® Serious Play® process is that you can be trained to use the method effectively in your own change process – check it out: https://play4business.com/
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