This document summarizes a presentation given by Ren Chang Soo and Donna Teuber on using Design Thinking and LEGO SERIOUS PLAY in a global learning community. It discusses how they have used techniques like building models, sketching, reflection, and establishing psychological safety to facilitate collaboration and creativity. Examples of specific activities included building models to represent relationships with play and sketching expectations or lessons from a course. The document emphasizes that LSP helps cultivate creative collaboration when used to craft team agreements, understand psychological safety, and choreograph meetings by establishing clear purposes and guiding principles.

1. Ren Chang Soo, Malaysia
Donna Teuber, USA
LSP Global Community Meeting
October 4, 2021
MATCHING
Design Thinking and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
in a Global Learning Community
Reflection &
Lessons Learned

2. 2016
2017
2020

3. Build a model: What is the
relationship between LSP and your
work?
You have 2 minutes
1) Share with a partner
2) Post in chat (virtual attendees)
3) Post to LinkedIn and/ or Twitter
with the hashtags #LSPdays21
#LSPDT
Let’s Build
@renchangsoo @dteuber

4. Our Work

5. Slack discussions and experimentation
● Self-awareness (Johari Window)
● Psychological Safety
● Divergence & Convergence
Weekly team meeting
● Build/ sketch a meaningful change in your life
● As we come to the end of the year-of-change,
what are you grateful for in 2020?
● What feeds your sanity these days?
● What’s one change that you’re going to design
in your life, as we approach 2021?
Course Teaching Team

6. Global Community of Learners
Sketch
● Sketch something that represents your
expectations of this course
● Sketch an aha moment or biggest takeaway
from the course so far
● Sketch outcomes when the purpose of a
project was unclear, and when it was clear
Build
● Build (with paper) something that made you
smile or laugh recently
● Build (with LEGO® bricks) a model about your
relationship with play
Not a good match,
without Skills Building!

7. Cultivating Creative Collaboration
Create the Right Conditions
Craft team agreement AT1
Understand psychological safety AT3
Choreograph the Work
5 Key Elements of Every Meeting

8. Leading Complex Projects
Project Purpose
Design research
Project Guiding Principles
Build project network map
AT1 > AT3 > AT4 > AT5 > AT6 > AT7

9. GREATmatch!
It’s really about finding a

10. @renchangsoo @dteuber