Leadership workshops
Leadership workshops where the whole team builds the way forward
Strategy, vision, how you lead together: in a workshop using special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® bricks, every member of the leadership team builds their view, and the team turns those views into a shared picture and clear decisions. Every voice counts, from the CEO to the newest member of the team.
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From individual views to shared decisions
Every leader builds their view of the future.
Together you build one shared picture.
You choose your priorities and name the owners.
Your outcome
What your team leaves with
A shared picture of the future
One model the whole leadership team built together – and can explain to their own teams the next day.
One voice as a leadership team
Open questions surface early and get settled in the room, so the team leaves aligned.
Clear priorities with owners
A handful of Must-Win-Battles, each with a leader who drives it and a first step.
The format
A leadership workshop with LEGO® bricks
Build, tell, agree: three steps that give a leadership team a day of real dialogue and decisions everyone stands behind.
Use cases
Three moments when leadership teams build together
Building shows where a leadership team really stands. When every leader builds what success looks like in three years, the team sees its common ground and its open questions on the table – early, while they are easy to resolve.
From there the day follows a clear flow: everyone first builds options alone, then the team collects all themes, sorts them, chooses and sharpens. Sharpening means asking: what has to be true for this to work? The result is a handful of Must-Win-Battles with names attached.
We come to you with the bricks – to your offices or an offsite venue anywhere we can reach by train or car from Hamburg: across Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and neighbouring countries.
Strategy and vision
The leadership team builds where it wants to be and agrees the priorities that get it there.
How we lead together
Roles, expectations and working agreements for a leadership team that is new or has changed.
Leading through change
A shared picture of the change and how each leader carries it into their area.
When everyone builds at once, every voice is heard
In every workshop, each person builds their own model with special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® bricks in answer to one clear question – all at the same time, in a few minutes. Then everyone explains their model. The quieter people's thoughts reach the table too, and the conversation stays on the subject.
Everyone builds at once
From the newest hire to the director, every voice carries the same weight.
Hands help you think
Building brings up pictures and ideas that rarely surface in a meeting.
The model carries the conversation
Questions and ideas are aimed at the model, which makes candid words easy.
Agenda
A business workshop with LEGO® bricks for leadership teams
Arrival and first builds
Short building exercises that get everyone's hands and heads going.
Where we stand
Every leader builds the situation today – strengths included.
Where we want to be
Every leader builds what success looks like in three years.
Our shared picture
The individual models come together into one picture of the future.
Lunch
Time to talk through the morning.
What matters most
You sort all themes and choose your Must-Win-Battles with dot voting.
What has to be true
For each priority: what has to be true for it to succeed, and which risks do we see?
Who leads what
Owners and first steps for every priority. Close around 16:30.
A sample day. We tailor it to your team and your goal in a short briefing call.
Clients
SkillDay works with teams at
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Does this work for senior executives?
Very well. Building gets to the real issues quickly, and every voice carries the same weight – the CEO's included.
Can it be part of our leadership offsite?
Yes – as a half-day core session or as a full two-day offsite. We travel by train or car and bring all materials.
Do you facilitate in English and German?
Yes. Jörn Steinz facilitates in both, and mixed teams build and explain in whatever language is easiest for them.
What does the room need?
Tables where everyone can sit and build, a screen and a flip chart. We bring the bricks and all other materials.
Does our team need any experience?
No experience is needed. The first building exercises take a few minutes to explain, and after that everyone builds their own models with confidence.
How many people can take part?
That depends on your goal. Tell us your group size and we plan materials and flow to match.
LEGO®, SERIOUS PLAY®, IMAGINOPEDIA™, the Minifigure and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this website.
Your facilitator
Jörn Steinz
Founder of SkillDay · workshop facilitator since 2014
Jörn Steinz has facilitated workshops for leadership and specialist teams since 2014 – more than 1.000 so far. Before that he was a consultant at Accenture and worked in corporate development at XING AG and freenet Group.
He knows how teams decide under time pressure, and he designs every workshop so that it ends with agreements that hold in daily work. He works with a network of around six trainers.
We come to your leadership team in
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Let's plan your leadership workshop
In a short call we clarify the occasion, the group and the goal – and what success after the workshop means for you. Then you receive a proposed agenda that we refine together.
SkillDay · Hamburg · jsteinz@skillday.com · 0049 175 566 4329