Creating the Vision for your business
March 12, 2023
If you have read the previous three blogs for 2023, it has taken you on a journey to explore the topic of Operational Excellence and understanding what this actually means. This is critical to be able to translate this into a clear decision to start a journey to establish a ...
Strategy and Tactics
November 23, 2021
Strategy and tactics - two critical elements of executing your plan and being a successful business. The great news is that one feeds into the other, they do and should relate to each other.
The strategy is your true north - the vision you, your leadership team and possibly ...
Control What You Can
September 29, 2021
The last two years have shown us all that the world, let alone the business environment is not a predictable place. This has always been the case but now it seems magnified to the extremes.
Owning and operating a business is hard enough, let alone in such an environmen...
Is Lego Serious Play a Team Building Activity?
August 31, 2021
Before writing this blog, my immediate answer to that question was NO. LEGO Serious Play (LSP) is so much more powerful than just having fun together as a team, playing crazy games and having a few drinks at the local pub.
My ‘Why’ is all about being crazily passio...
What can Lego® Serious Play® be used for?
May 7, 2021
Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) enables individuals and teams to explore topics deeper and faster than many other methodologies. I went into some of the theory of how LSP works in a previous blog post.
So we know it works and why. But what type of scenarios or situat...
How Does LEGO Serious Play Work?
April 20, 2021
The simple answer to this question is easy. The process of a basic LEGO Serious Play (LSP) workshop follows the same pattern. A group is first asked an open ended question by a trained facilitator. Then each person responds by building a model that represents th...
Lego Serious Play - Case Study #2
December 2, 2020
A local government agency.Being a new internal service, the manager identified the team was still building an identity for themselves. It had been a few months into delivering the new service, but they had yet to spend time to create a common goal, a defined purpose that bro...
Lego Serious Play - A Case Study
September 18, 2020
How do you get a bunch of Electricians interested in strategic conversations? That was the challenge put to me by an owner of a local electrician business. The business has a good reputation and has been growing from strength to strength. However the owner recognised t...
What Would I Do? - Episode Two
August 26, 2020
Another recent experience occurred recently where it prompted me to think once again, “what would I do?”.
From a customer perception, this situation wasn’t a terrible howler like the first example in this series. This interaction could be one that as a cust...
Something Old, Something New, Borrowed and Blue
May 5, 2020
Change up your planning process
Don’t panic, this isn’t me turning all nostalgic and mushy, this is still a business blog with a real focus. It is, however, a reflection on how I have seen businesses time and time again try to ‘change things up’ whilst using the same processes, approaches to planni...
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