LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® fosters effective team-building, enabling an increased sense of involvement and ownership of the issues and decisions taken by the participants and thus facilitates more effective implementation of these decisions.

A LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop has proven results in the following changes:

• Shared perspectives: Getting various substantially different answers to one only question
• Common language: Use the same words for the same things
• Personal interests: Share personal agenda
• Transparency and respect: People will speak up without having or inspiring fear
• Inclusion: Everybody needs to speak, listen and commit
• Efficiency: Stakeholders will use the time efficiently
• Uncertainty: Solutions will be found that are not obvious
• Curiosity: Team members wish to explore new ways and new approaches
• Complexity: A complex environment will be faced in a constructive way
• Equality: No dominating team member, no dominated team member
• Involvement: Everybody will be involved and heard
• Speed: Sharing expectations of team members about speed and time allotment
• Personification: Discussing the message instead of “killing the messenger”
• Commitment: Fostering initiative and commitment must at all levels
• Common grounds: Creation of a common understanding, the same wording, and the understanding of personal needs and expectations