Red, blue, yellow, green, orange, pink - colourful. That was the Trainers' Day 2024 of the Competence Development Network. Colourful due to the diversity of skills and personalities of the network's trainers. Colourful also because of the many vibrant post-its that we filled with valueable content over the course of the day and because of the LEGO® bricks we used to create common understanding and a shared vision.

In addition to regular online meetings, the CDN team meets once a year for a joint trainer day to expand our skills in line with our customers' needs and to continuously develop ourselves further.

This year, we focused on what distinguishes our network and where we make a difference. After creating a model with LEGO® bricks that everyone agreed upon, we moved on to the next step: discovering joint development potential and defining what each individual contributes with their skills and resources so that we can put this potential into practice.

Alongside the joy of co-creating and exchanging ideas, a clear roadmap has been drawn up on how each individual team member will contribute to bringing the developed image to life.

In regular online retrospectives, we now see how the implementation is picking up speed and we continuously align on the next steps.

In addition to working with LEGO® Serious Play® for our internal topics, we also apply this methodology to customer projects. LSP is an excellent tool for giving shape to topics that are currently only prevalent in our heads. Perspectives, ideas, solutions, visions, strategies, and scenarios become visible and tangible with the help of metaphors in the LEGO® models, as do the connections between complex topics that were not apparent before.

Through this tactile, playful process not only explicit knowledge but also implicit insights are activated. This results in coherent, sometimes surprising answers, which are supported by all participants thanks to the alignment and voting integrated into the workshop design.

What about you? Wanna play seriously?

Kira Kerstin Fecher
Strategist | Facilitator | Story Coach