Business workshops and team building with LEGO® bricks · Germany · Netherlands · DenmarkWhen everyone builds, everyone speaks.
A business workshop or team building day using special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® bricks gives every person on your team the same airtime. Your leaders build their answers with their hands, tell the story behind each model and leave with a shared picture, guiding principles and next steps they own.
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Every round, four steps
Question
One clear question that matters to your business.
Build
Everyone builds an answer as a model – at the same time.
Share
Each person tells the story of their model.
Reflect
The team captures what it saw and takes it further.
What changes for your team
After the workshop, your team shares one picture
Leadership teams and departments book a workshop with LEGO® bricks when a decision needs everyone on board: a new strategy, a merger, a new team, a change in how you work together. This is what they take home.
A shared model of your question
Everyone’s view in one model on the table. Strategy, roles and dependencies become visible, so the team talks about the same thing.
Guiding principles in your own words
Simple rules for how you decide and work together, written by the people who have to live them.
Next steps with owners
A short list of actions, each with a name and a date. The energy of the day turns into work that starts the next morning.
Why it works
Why team building with LEGO® bricks works
Your hands know more than you think. Building first and talking second gives quiet voices room and gives the loudest voice a model to respond to.
Think with your hands
Building slows the mind down just enough. People find answers they would never have said out loud in a meeting.
Every voice counts
Each person builds and each person tells their story. Full participation is built into the format.
Metaphors make it clear
A bridge, a wall, a tower: a model says in seconds what a slide needs ten bullets for – and the team remembers it.
Questions teams build answers to
“Where do we want to be in three years?”
“How do we work together when things get hot?”
“What does our customer really experience?”
Where teams use it
From strategy to team spirit
Each workshop is tailored to one question. These are the questions teams bring most often.
- Strategy and priorities – where are we going, and what matters most on the way?
- Leadership alignment – how do we want to lead and decide as one team?
- Change and organisation – where are we today, where do we want to be, and what is the path?
- Team building – a team day where everyone builds, everyone is heard and the team leaves closer together.
- New or merged teams – roles, strengths and ways of working, clear from day one.
- Innovation – customer journeys, service ideas and business models you can touch.
Formats
From a module to a full offsite
A typical workshop using special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® bricks lasts from half a day to two full days. In a short briefing we agree on your question, the outcome you need and the right format.
Module in your offsite
A focused building session inside your leadership offsite – a strong opener that gets every voice into the room.
Half-day team building
One question, individual models and a shared model. Ideal for a new team, a team after a change or a team day with substance.
One- or two-day strategy workshop
Shared model, landscape and connections, scenarios, guiding principles and a 90-day action plan.
Where we run it
Business workshops with LEGO® bricks in Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark
SkillDay is based in Hamburg, right between Amsterdam and Copenhagen. We come to your office or your offsite venue and bring all materials with us.
Germany
Leadership teams, project teams and offsites across the country – in English or German.
Netherlands
Workshops in English for international teams at headquarters, sites and offsite venues.
Denmark
Workshops in English for leadership teams and cross-border teams.
A sample day
A sample day: business workshop with LEGO® bricks
One example for a leadership team. We shape your agenda together in the briefing, around your question.
Skills build
Everyone builds a tower, turns it into a metaphor and tells its story. Hands warm up, the room relaxes.
Individual models
Each person builds an answer to your core question. Stories, questions, first patterns.
Lunch
Shared model
The team combines the strongest pieces into one model that everyone can stand behind.
Landscape and scenarios
What influences us? What happens if …? The model is tested against real situations.
Guiding principles and next steps
Simple guiding principles and a short action plan with owners and dates.
What you leave with: a shared model, guiding principles in your own words and next steps with owners.
Clients
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FAQ
Questions about team building and business workshops with LEGO® bricks
Do we need to be creative or good with LEGO® bricks?
Every workshop opens with a short skills build: a tower, a metaphor, a story. After that, everyone in the room builds with confidence. The value lies in the story each person tells about their model, so the look of the model is secondary.
How many people can take part?
We bring all LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® materials for up to 20 participants. The format is at its best when every voice gets airtime; for a full leadership team of eight to twelve, one facilitator keeps the whole room in one conversation.
How long is a workshop using special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® bricks?
From a 90-minute module inside your offsite to two full days. Most leadership teams choose one day: enough time to build individual models, a shared model and concrete next steps.
Which language do you run it in?
In English or German. International teams in the Netherlands and Denmark usually choose English.
Where do you run the workshop?
At your office or offsite venue anywhere in Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark. We bring all materials, you choose the room.
What do we have at the end of the day?
A shared model of the question you came with, guiding principles in your team’s own words and a short list of next steps with owners. The question is agreed with you in a briefing before the workshop.
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.
Facilitation
Your facilitator for the day
Jörn Steinz · Founder of SkillDay
Jörn has facilitated workshops for leadership teams since 2014 – strategy offsites, alignment workshops and team days across Europe, including workshops using special LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® bricks. His background at Accenture and XING means he knows the decisions your team is working on from the inside.
His workshops end with results the team owns: clear priorities, principles and next steps. For larger groups and parallel sessions he draws on the SkillDay network of experienced facilitators.
Build your next offsite together
Tell us your question, your team size and where you meet. We come back with a workshop design for your team.
SkillDay · Hamburg · jsteinz@skillday.com · 0049 175 566 4329