Virtual LEGO® workshop? Yes, please!

You prepare your workshop, set up an agenda and plan how to utilize LEGO® Serious Play® with the team. And then – travel ban will ground one of your participant at home in Sydney and flu will keep another team member at home in Switzerland. So in the morning of the workshop I have realized, two participants will join virtually only.

To be totally honest, my initial thoughts were “there is no way we can run such an interactive workshop via Skype only”. But then, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And that’s what we did!

Working with LEGO® is very interactive and people are discussing over their creations, to communicate better and find new solutions. So that’s exactly what we did. Team was working according the brief, how to become even better ONE TEAM – and virtual members were building their part at home. They were sharing their outputs into a camera and in-house participants were sharing their work in front of the camera.

At the end of the day, it is really more about the communication, then about seeing precise details made with bricks. And so it totally worked!

Huge kudos to the team as everybody in the meeting room and off-site was really committed, patient and passionate about the topic. And that inevitably lead to a great output of the workshop – ONE TEAM!

And I can “check” off the list running my first ever virtual LEGO® Serious Play® workshop. What an experience…

Patrik Banas | developien.ch

Please, get in touch, if you are interested in facilitating your workshops with LEGO Serious Play.

About having JOMO


…and about Top 10 Global Consumer Trends in 2019

Did you recently experienced JOMO? Or you do not know what JOMO is? New acronym on the block, which I did not know since last week either… But, last week I have downloaded Euromonitor’s latest report and their view on Top 10 Global Consumer Trends in 2019. Definitely worth go through whatever industry or category you are in. It is free and link where you can you download it is here. Thank you Euromonitor!

OK then, JOMO stands for Joy Of Missing Out. That is an opposite to more known FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out – which Wikipedia defines as “Anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on social media”).

Sooo, JOMO is actually about turning off your digital gadgets (especially your Social feeds at Facebook, Instagram, hello LinkedIn) purposefully and not feeling guilty about a fact that you were not connected for a few hours or even days! Going off-line voluntarily and being cool with it. Why this should be a trend and how is this going to influence Consumers? Well, where is a demand, there is an offer – many resort, hotels, cafés and restaurants are turning to “no wifi zones”, there is a boom in off-line cleansing retreat weekends and it is becoming again trendy just to sit and read a book during your break (seriously, well described in that Euromonitor report).

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