Change your workplace culture – one duck step at a time!

‘What The Duck™’ is your fire-starter to move things forward in your own company. In this workshop, we demonstrate and give you the opportunity to practice facilitating a whole range of corporate team building activities with the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®-based ‘What The Duck™’ system.

Our purpose

To shift teams forward towards full engagement

To increase levels of motivation

To create a culture that is vibrant, interactive and inclusive

What is the philosophy that sits behind the ‘What the Duck’ solution?

We believe in these key principles:

  • Introducing play and fun in to the workplace makes for a more productive team environment.  It is play though with a serious side and is based on years of research in to what makes a team achieve high performance.
  • A gamified workplace has a strong sense of purpose because team members have a goal to achieve and the competitive spirit is harnessed
  • Play for play’s sake does sometimes have value – and we do include moments of pure, escapist fun to generate a positive climate for the team.
  • Gamification also has the benefit of setting the scene for deeper conversations and ah-ha moments that connect to more meaningful business insights.  And having purpose at work also creates a far higher level of engagement.
  • Theory is all well and good.  There is also an urgent need to leap in to action.  This toolkit is your Firestarter to move things forward and to provide you with the activities, games, themes and strategies to ensure that your team is engaged for the entire year.
  • As you roll out the activities, start to notice the changes.  Watch the joy emerge on people’s faces as they feel involved in what you are doing.  High performing teams rely on people who are committed. 

“Play is the highest form of research” 

Albert Einstein

  1. Geared specifically toward team leaders and frontline supervisors. You won’t be sorting through catalogs to find something that is relevant to your situation. All of our courses are designed specifically for you!
  2. LIVE, virtual, facilitator-led training sessions. You’ll have the opportunity to develop skills and build capacity by directly interacting with our highly trained facilitators.
  3. Self-paced, interactive online corporate training courses. You can access the pre-recorded modules via mobile, tablet, or desktop from anywhere in the world.
  4. Ready-to-use toolkits. Our toolboxes contain all of the tools you’ll need to complete the activities and promote team engagement.
  5. Subscription-based set of training options. This allows you to continue developing your skills on an ongoing, consistent basis.
  1. Bite-sized learning modules. At just 20-30 minutes each, you can work through whichever lessons you like at your own pace.
  2. All the resources you need. All of our courses include demonstrations, how-to guides, and downloadable PDFs for reference.
  3. Practical and easy-to-implement activities. Our unique learning methodologies ensure you will be able to increase engagement on a daily basis.
  4. Blended-learned approach to corporate learning. You will have access to both self-paced learning modules in micro-learning format and live, virtual classes.
  5. Proven team impact. Our ‘What the Duck®’ methodology includes the use of six LEGO® bricks that transform the way in which your team creates a climate of positive energy, great team power, and inclusion.

Applications

  • Improve decision making
  • Change management
  • Stimulate entrepreneurship
  • Surface hidden issues and challenges
  • Clarify values, roles and identities
  • Integrate new teams, new members and cultures
  • Resolve conflicts
  • Discuss the un-discussable

Our Corporate Training Research

This all sounds great on paper, but to be truly effective, a corporate learning program needs to be backed by great training that brings about change in behavior for your team leads, frontline leaders, and supervisors.

With more than 30 years of experience in the Asia Pacific, Play4Business knows how to design and deliver global corporate learning experiences that make a difference for leaders across all industries.

Through these measurable outcomes, we ensure that leaders make a real difference every single day.

    Advantages

LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® invites all participants to take an active part in the process. The common language – the bricks – treats everyone as equals and allows all opinions and aspects to be heard. In a very direct way, you will be able to see what everyone knows inside the company – and what they don’t know they know.

Insights made using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® are immediately actionable. Because the insights come from the people who will implement them, ideas don’t have to be introduced and anchored – they can be set into motion right away.

What LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® provides is an efficient tool for crafting the solution to strategic issues and challenges confronting the organisation or the division.

Using LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, participants will be clearer on objectives, actions and on the Simple Guiding Principles for the organisation. Consequently, business strategies will be much more comprehensive and coherent – and in a deeper way that creates actionable ideas.

Engagement surveys. Surveys help us evaluate our programs to ensure that culture initiatives are making a difference. We seek to measure the way people speak about and are invested in their work.

Net Promoter Scores (NPS). NPS are used to measure customer experience and loyalty, which are a direct result of team engagement.

Levels of staff attrition. New hire retention and turnover are critical metrics in how we measure engagement and the maintenance of the employer brand promise.

Leadership development. A review of the number of leaders promoted to higher level roles helps us identify succession planning within the organization.

OUR VALUE FOR CORPORATIONS

Now that you’ve learned a little bit about the power of the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Methodology, have you imagined being trained online? That’s right! With our online short courses, you will be able to be trained on LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® and how to apply the methodology yourself.

Our PLATINUM Subscription package offers both the introduction and advanced LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® courses. Our leading corporate training program is also the most cost effective one on the market today. 

Play4Business delivers the ultimate value. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee per day, you can boost team engagement, improve morale, establish a climate of team trust and collaboration, and reduce turnover.

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