Team building in Amsterdam
Team building in Amsterdam for teams with many nationalities
Five languages, six time zones, one team. A workshop using special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® bricks gives an international team a shared picture of how it works – built by everyone and understood by everyone, whatever their first language.
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One team, one picture
Everyone builds what they bring to the team.
Together you build the team you want to be.
You agree how you work across cultures.
Your outcome
What your team leaves with
Understanding across cultures
Everyone sees how colleagues from other countries prefer to give feedback, make decisions and run meetings.
A model nobody needs to translate
A shared model of your team that speaks to everyone, regardless of first language.
Working agreements
Concrete agreements on meetings, decisions and feedback that the team wrote itself.
The format
Team building in Amsterdam with LEGO® bricks
Build, tell, agree: three steps that work in any language – which is exactly what a team of many nationalities needs.
On site in Amsterdam
Amsterdam teams speak many languages – models speak all of them
Amsterdam is home to the European headquarters of many international companies. In plenty of teams around Zuidas, Sloterdijk or the city centre, English is the working language and Dutch is one of many first languages. That is where building helps: a model makes a point clear even when the right word in a second language is missing.
We travel from Hamburg by train or car with the bricks in our luggage and come to your office, a meeting venue in the city or an offsite location anywhere in the Randstad.
The workshop runs in English. Colleagues explain their models in whatever words come most easily – the model does half the work.
Half day
What everyone brings and first working agreements – compact and focused.
Full day
Individual models, a shared team model and agreements on working across cultures.
Two days
Adds goals and priorities for the coming months, with time to connect in the evening.
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
How your team building workshop in Amsterdam runs
Arrival and first builds
Short building exercises that show everyone how easy it is.
What I bring
Everyone builds their strengths and what matters to them in a team.
How I like to work
Models of how each person prefers to give feedback, decide and meet.
Lunch
Time for the conversations the morning started.
The team we want to be
The individual models come together into one shared team model.
Our working agreements
From the shared model to concrete agreements on meetings, decisions and feedback.
What changes tomorrow
Everyone names their first step. Close around 16:30.
A sample day. We tailor it to your team and your goal in a short briefing call.
Clients
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is the workshop facilitated in English?
Yes. Jörn Steinz facilitates in English and German, and participants build and explain in whatever language is easiest for them.
Do you travel to the Netherlands?
Yes. We come from Hamburg by train or car and bring all bricks and materials. Travel costs are shown transparently in our proposal.
Our team is mostly remote – does this work?
It works best as the day the team meets in person. Bring everyone to Amsterdam for one day and build together.
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.
Let's plan your workshop in Amsterdam
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