How do you get more than 60 stakeholders to work together on a project? How can you speak a common language in global project teams despite different cultures and interests? What is the identity of a project and how can it be communicated to all participants? Questions with which the experienced project manager and LEGO SERIOUS PLAY facilitator Jens Hoffmann met with an open ear at the 4th PRINCE2 Day in Cologne on 12.4.08 from the consultants and project managers present. In his one-hour talk, Hoffmann was able to report from his own experience of projects that threatened to fail because of these questions. "Out of sheer desperation", Hoffmann reported, he had therefore brought the stakeholders together for a LEGO SERIOUS PLAY workshop.As a result, the participants were able to arrive at a uniform image of the external and internal representation of the project. look, management processes from start to finish play through and, above all, successfully continue the project.
To give the conference participants in Cologne a first insight into the scientific methodology of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, everyone was asked to do the tinkerer or ponderer exercise. During the lecture, they were able to see for themselves how much easier it is for most people not to solve problems in their heads and verbally, but to really grasp them with the help of LEGO bricks. With nimble fingers, most of them solved the problem with the three LEGO bricks before they even thought about working out the solution theoretically.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY can be used in many different ways in projects. As examples, Hoffmann presented workshops for project start-up, team building and the analysis of critical situations.