Model complex systems
Represent priorities, blockers, stakeholders, dependencies, and trade-offs in a way the whole team can inspect and improve.
LV-01 · Innovation & facilitation
LEGO® Serious Play® methodology for innovation and problem solving.
A practitioner-led course where teams use structured model-building, storytelling, and facilitated reflection to frame complex problems, surface hidden assumptions, align perspectives, and convert ideas into practical action.
LEGO, SERIOUS PLAY, the Minifigure and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this website. © 2026 The LEGO Group.
Course overview
Move from abstract discussion to visible, shared understanding.
This course uses tangible models to help participants explain what they know, test assumptions, and create a common language for innovation and decision-making.
Surface stronger insights
Use structured storytelling to make tacit knowledge explicit and reduce the usual dominance of only the loudest voices in the room.
Convert ideas into action
Translate the final shared model into decisions, ownership, risk signals, and next steps that can be used after the workshop.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Frame an ambiguous business or team challenge as a concrete design problem.
- Use individual model-building to generate diverse perspectives before moving to group synthesis.
- Facilitate structured storytelling so ideas are explained, challenged, and refined with evidence.
- Build shared models that show priorities, constraints, stakeholders, risks, and strategic options.
- Identify decision criteria and select practical next steps from competing possibilities.
- Apply the method to innovation workshops, retrospectives, product discovery, leadership alignment, and change initiatives.
Capstone output
Participants finish with a documented challenge map, a shared model of the current or desired system, and a prioritized action plan that can be used by the team after the session.
Curriculum
A practical sequence from individual insight to group decision.
Method foundation and workshop rules
Understand the purpose of tangible thinking, the role of the facilitator, the importance of equal participation, and the basic rules for model-building and storytelling.
Skill building: from simple builds to meaning-rich models
Practice short build cycles that help participants translate abstract ideas into models, metaphors, and clear explanations.
Problem framing and assumption mapping
Use individual and small-group builds to identify the real problem, hidden constraints, stakeholder tensions, and success criteria.
Shared model creation
Combine separate perspectives into one shared model that reflects the team’s collective understanding of the challenge and the system around it.
Scenario testing and decision pathways
Stress-test ideas through scenarios, constraints, risks, and possible futures so decisions are based on explicit trade-offs rather than vague consensus.
Action planning and transfer to work
Convert the final model into priorities, owners, near-term experiments, meeting outputs, and follow-up actions.
Who should enrol
Built for teams that need better thinking, not longer meetings.
Leaders and managers
Use the method to improve alignment, make strategic conversations more concrete, and help teams commit to decisions.
Project and product teams
Map dependencies, customer problems, delivery risks, and product opportunities before moving into execution.
Innovation teams
Generate and evaluate concepts with stronger participation, clearer constraints, and visible decision criteria.
Facilitators and L&D teams
Add a structured, hands-on workshop technique to training, retrospectives, change management, and organizational learning sessions.
Delivery model
Designed for application in real organizational contexts.
Private team sessions
Adapt the challenge, examples, and final outputs to a department, leadership group, project team, or strategic initiative.
Hands-on facilitation
Participants learn by building, explaining, questioning, refining, and documenting outputs instead of only listening to theory.
Practical documentation
The session can produce a visual record of models, insights, decisions, assumptions, and next actions for follow-up.
Professional boundaries
This is a LogicVersity course for business learning and facilitation practice. It is not a LEGO Group certification course.
LEGO® and SERIOUS PLAY® are used here only to identify the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology and related materials. The LEGO Group does not sponsor, authorize, or endorse LogicVersity, this website, or this course. © 2026 The LEGO Group.
FAQ
Questions before enrolling?
Is this course sponsored or certified by the LEGO Group?
No. This is a LogicVersity professional development course using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology. The LEGO Group does not sponsor, authorize, or endorse this website or this course.
Do participants need previous LEGO® experience?
No. Participants start with simple build exercises and progress toward models that represent business challenges, systems, and decisions.
Can the course be adapted to our company?
Yes. LogicVersity can adapt the challenge brief, examples, facilitation flow, and outputs to a real team or organizational objective.
What does the team leave with?
A shared model of the challenge, a documented set of insights, clearer priorities, and an action plan with owners and next steps.
Enrolment
Bring this workshop to your team.
Tell us about your team, challenge, and preferred format. A LogicVersity advisor will follow up with availability, delivery options, and pricing.
- Useful for innovation sessions, leadership alignment, product discovery, retrospectives, and change initiatives.
- Can be scoped as a focused workshop or as part of a broader learning path.
- Designed for practical outputs your team can use immediately after the course.
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