Training

High Impact, Customized and Interactive

Our core training offer is the StrategicPlay® Facilitator Training, powered by LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™: You learn to design, facilitate and integrate your own workshops with the StrategicPlay® concept based on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™. In three days of intensive training you learn the essence of our experiences and our knowledge -by incorporating current and many practical hints. For this StrategicPlay® has extracted and condensed all experiences, know how and best practices.

Furthermore we offer individualized trainings for high-performance teams: We review concepts of servant leadership and of project management approaches that are more relevant and practical in today’s business environment, given the constant changes to economic conditions impacted by globalization and technology. We deliver a trainings where participants experience the process of evolving from manager to leader, from traditional project management to agile project leader, and from creation to innovation.

All our trainings and workshops are interactive, fast-paced, educational, relevant, and fun.

We have taken the best methods from training companies around the world to bring you our innovative training program.  Collectively we have been delivering  excellent, customized programs that provide applicable knowledge and hands-on skills for over 50 years. And now we are able to offer train the trainer courses to you.  These sessions have been created so you can develop your own top shelf workshops, using our established and innovative hands-on methods.

Attending our training workshops will give you the opportunity to build and enhance your skill sets in a wide range of different contexts. We can help you to promise 100% engagement because we use interactive hands-on minds-engaged tools that help active participant’s link concepts to their specific learning needs.  Learn to create your own “Strategic Playroom” and learn key methods to help your clients learn at a deeper level at an accelerated rate.

All of our training programs have a basis in the Instructor-Led Participant-Centered instructional model. People learn best when their stress levels are low and they are playing with concepts and ideas in an environment that supports innovation and fun.

When we use this formula people are more engaged. They are open to new ideas, allowing them to absorb and retain information. And then they are able to integrate and apply what they have learned.  We use numerous techniques to meet all learning styles.

Tomorrow’s leading organizations are seeking creative competencies to balance their critical reasoning skills and to active innovation. Globalization has paved the way for many organizations to depend upon technology for communication, at times creating barriers to effective dialog and the loss of organizational intelligence. To work truly effectively during the twenty-first century people need to possess a shared working mental model. Mental models explain an overlapping understanding that people have regarding their tasks, objectives, the work structure, the processes, and the strategy they implement as they strive to accomplish joint goals and manage change.

We provide workshops around the globe offering sessions in English, German, French, Spanish and a variety of other languages. In all our workshops we use a variety of culturally appropriate methods that assist the learning process by engaging the whole brain in three dimensional creative thinking. Our trainers design and develop fast passed sessions to ignite innovation through interactive, facilitated hands-on experiences. Our workshops facilitate the communication of ideas and perceptions via storytelling, model building, and innovation mining. Participants gain a deeper understanding of what the organization is working towards along with how others think and perform as they work to achieve stated goals. The fact that people enjoy our process so much they lose track of time is no accident; it is all part of our unique offering—an experience with lasting lessons that people never forget.

Call us today to arrange your customized training.

Here are some examples:

High Performance Teams

Teams that have a strong, clear, shared mental model perform better and are more productive. Great teams increase companies’ return on their investments and gain more of the market share. Teams functioning at this high level share information easily and make decisions quickly and correctly. They like spending time together and value each others contributions. They adjust on the fly and they work together to help the group succeed. It is that simple.

Teamwork is a term we use; yet many organizations complain their teams are just not functioning at a high level. So how can we promise 100% engagement with our workshops and team development programs? We know that people learn more when they play and engage their whole brains. So to deliver our programs we use a variety of well- researched, creative methods. We have created our own customized applications based in psychology, education, business, art and play therapy, and creative problem solving. These engage, motivate, and help teams create shared mental models, where thinking and innovation happen at deeper and richer levels. Whatever your needs, we use design thinking to facilitate a unique hands-on, interactive experience to get both sides of your brain working. The learning in our workshops is directly transferable back into the workplace. We are not engaging in team-building but rather team development.

Collaborative Leadership

Demographics clearly indicate that within the next few years we will see a mass exodus of baby boomers leaving the work force for retirement or retreading. They will be leaving top management and middle management positions vacant. The next generation of leaders will need to think strategically, know how to lead a team, and support innovation. They will need more than just good management skills; they will need creative thinking skills and the ability to collaborate and function at the highest levels. As the world becomes more complicated, doing it all alone is impossible. Leaders must be able to collaborate and engage others as they move the organization forward toward its strategic goals. Our hands-on, innovative workshops help leaders to think in new ways that support their efforts to develop 21st century skills. We will help you to blend your proven business processes with creative and innovative thinking, in order to help you to reach your stated goals. The only thing we can be sure about when we think of the future is things are changing fast. Do not be left behind using old school processes that may not work to solve the problems of the future.