Insights
Celebration: The Key Ingredient to Build and Sustain High Performing Teams
In essence, celebrations, whether they're team outings, appreciation emails, or award ceremonies, serve as fuel for motivation. They keep teams energized, appreciated, and committed to their roles. If the vision is to build high performing teams, then celebrating every step of the journey is non-negotiable.
Empathy: The Quiet Powerhouse to Build High Performing Teams
Building high performing teams requires more than just skills; it demands an understanding heart. A team environment where empathy is a celebrated trait ensures that individuals feel connected, valued, and ready to contribute their best.
Communication: The Heartbeat of High Performing Teams
When we speak of organizational development and success, communication consistently emerges as the cornerstone. The mission to build high performing teams hinges profoundly on effective, transparent communication.
Three Methods for Building a High Performing Team
Building a high-performing team is a continuous journey, not a destination. By focusing on robust communication, fostering empathy, and celebrating both successes and learnings, leaders can pave the way for creating teams that are not only successful but also deeply connected and motivated
Using Expansion and Contraction for Productivity in Teams
Using the lens of expansive vs contractive work can help save time in framing decisions and work in a unique way that stimulates different ways of thinking about challenges and opportunities in teams.
Boost Employee Engagement with Bare Bones Drafts
Imagine pouring your best effort into a project or deck, only to have it completely reversed or changed when shared. Not only is this a detriment to engagement of an employee or team, but it might even result in turnover if it happens often.
This is a huge problem for leaders that are not great communicators.
Amplify Team Connection in Record Time with LEGO Serious Play!
The ideal solution solves for these opposing forces - and results in high connection, low time - The upper right quadrant. This is where we come in. The reason our workshops and team building events can live in the upper right quadrant is the efficiency of communicating via metaphor. When people build their thoughts and ideas out of LEGO bricks, the model, as a metaphor, does MOST of the talking. Less talking > More Listening > More Understanding
Boosting Team Synergy with the Core LEGO Serious Play Builds
Discover the transformative power of LEGO Serious Play's core build types designed to optimize team collaboration, deepen connections, and elevate performance to new heights.
Neuroscience and LEGO serious Play with David Rock’s SCARF Model
Most challenges of workplace challenge, discord, engagement, and quiet quitting can be addressed via David Rocks' SCARF model.
Social threats and rewards can impact how productive, happy, and engaged we are at work, and the LEGO Serious Play method is a fantastic way to champion the social rewards part of the SCARF model.
Why LEGO Serious Play is Great for Team Building
By having teams build their thoughts about themselves (and the team) out of LEGO bricks, a few things occur.
The idea is externalized - making it much easier to talk about
The model holds much of the weight of the talking, so less words are needed
It's easy for others to understand the model via metaphor so less questions are needed.
Harnessing Team Ideas: A Guide to Balanced Ideation
Explore how to cultivate and refine ideas from your team without overwhelming your execution pipeline. Learn to establish guidelines that promote quality and foster an innovative culture that drives success.
Three Ways to Build Connection in Teams
Discover how to foster strong connections within teams, especially in a virtual setting. Dive into the three core principles of cultivating trust and camaraderie for high-performing teams.