FUTURE MEANS EXCESSIVE DEMAND –
FUTURE COMPANIONSHIP FOR SURVIVAL
FUTURE IS CHALLENGE –
EMPOWER AND ENTHUSE
For the PLAY SERIOUS AKADEMIE, workshop facilitation is a skilled craft. Also in virtual environments. Even more so there!
Events with physical presence must not be copied 1:1. The complexity of the reality needs precise didactics and clear-cut moderation.
The facilitator is and remains the tutor for all types of desired and unwanted situations. As a “transformation assistant” for you and your group, he also acts as a stabiliser. No matter whether in a real life event, within a virtual or a hybrid format – our team of facilitators know the boundaries and possibilities. The PLAY SERIOUS AKADEMIE does have the competence to also use a flip chart in a remote event – or to refrain from it.
DIGITAL FACILITATION
AND WORKSHOPS
The digital facilitators of the PLAY SERIOUS AKADEMIE will make sure you reach your targets. Also on that internet.
Our experience shows that education, time-shifted collaboration and the development of solutions are very different things. The suitable techniques can and must be combined very wisely. As agile drivers of transformation, we activate your participants with interactive packages.
Hierarchies become less relevant, playful elements are guaranteed. As mentioned before, future companionship is a long-distance race. It helps to split it up into smaller sections.
FUTURE IS DEMAND –
PLAY SERIOUSLY!
Our formula for success: Regardless whether virtually or on site: Haptics!
Change and pressure to act become more tangible when you get into direct contact to new business models and prototypes or when you hold a new product idea in your hand. This conversion of abstract trends – which mean innovation and future – asks for concrete solutions. Ease and a playful approach do have their meaning in a business context. We believe in the necessity of serious gaming and ask to play – seriously!
For example with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® or PLAYMOBIL pro. Yet, not at home – but in the next meeting. Scientists have proven the benefits of serious games. For us, they are our daily business for over 12 years now. For both techniques, we are the leading training institution. Yes, we believe in the victory of courage – also when using virtual haptics.
With Mathias Haas – Germany’s best-known trend watcher (Business Insider) – we set up both digital and real-world exhibitions providing evidence of the future. This way, the status quo of other companies and business sectors becomes apparent and the pressure to act clearly obvious. Possibilities unveil.
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Every relationship is unique. Suitable future companionship is very individual.
Drivers of transformation and future rebels are rare – and very valuable.
The PLAY SERIOUS AKADEMIE has the experience, the tools, the network and the competence to come onto that journey together with you. With seriousness, stamina and your readiness to make sacrifices we will achieve your future fitness.
Task:
The project started as a workshop to establish an innovation management structure. Since then, it generated a wide spread impact. Having achieved radical change in attitude was a very welcome side effect.
Measures:
The start of this process was marked by the definition of a common journey. This concept has received support and encouragement for change at a number of places. The portfolio used included learning trips to other worlds, radical “24-hour innovation sessions”, “Konferenzen der Misserfolge” (conferences of failure) and trainings to become a trend watcher. With the latter, Mathias Haas, THE TREND WATCHER, made himself replaceable within the organisation.
Result:
Even after 2 years the ” journey is the goal “. New future workshops are held on a continual basis with vigour and initiative. Future fitness is growing exponentially. We are enthusiastic about so much courage, openness and stamina.
Task:
The operationalization of a future-fit orientation starts at the very top – within the management body. All levels should be met and involved in a transparent way. Following a strategy development process, this one question had to be asked, even for a completely overfilled everyday life: What can be deleted without replacement? And which impact will this have further down the line? In order to exercise this way of thinking, old patterns were broken up and questioned.
Measures:
This organization was re-aligned and then – in detail – made fit for the future. “Omission” workshops were implemented and, for example, in-house “Trained facilitators of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, method and materials, PSA” got educated.
Result:
A new kind of efficiency was created, one lives the zeitgeist that such a company needs. We say: Let’s play, let’s stay serious.
Task:
It’s not only us who carry the love for change out into the world, sometimes our customers do the same themselves. The TREND WATCHER Mathias Haas was already known in the company – this is why we were invited into this universe.
Measure:
We are a regular component of their innovative event formats. We unpack our toolboxes to achieve meetings that are far beyond standard. The team gets activated and inspired by Think Style Analyses, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Workshops, Footprint Visions and Value Anchors.
Result:
adidas has recognised that diversity can only be achieved by changing perspectives. This way, the strengthened posture – not only towards individual colleagues, but also within the organisation – is carried forward and practised sustainably. We say thank you for so much openness and trust!
PUBLICATIONS
Our self-designed and continuously improved booklet is practical guide for the education of “Trained facilitators of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, method and materials, PSA” that comprises of the concentrated experience from 1182 events across more than 12 years.
This work does not only describe the character and basic rules of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, but also answers most of the common questions – including the fundamental one: How can we convince the decision-makers?
“WENN DIE ZUKUNFT ZUM HEUTE WIRD” (When the future turns into now), change becomes reality. In co-operation with the Innovation Lab of Deutsche Telekom and the Phantastische Bibliothek in Wetzlar, Mathias Haas, founder of PLAY SERIOUS AKADEMIE and known as THE TREND WATCHER, has taken this study as an opportunity for a reality check.
OUR WORK GOT REVIEWED BY THESE MEDIA
ROOMS CHANGE PEOPLE
FUTURE WORKSHOP
Do you know what argues for holding an event in our future workshop? The lack of mobile network coverage!
Well, seriously: New ideas need an unorthodox environment. Architecture and the access to special workshop facilitation techniques – like a digital flip chart – play a big, but often underestimated role. In our future workshop and in between hackathons and strategy workshops, the most unusual event formats have taken place.
At the same time, we have transferred the PLAY SERIOUS AKADEMIE’s future workshop into a future studio for virtual conferences. A quick changeover and we are “on air”. Why don’t you hold your next Zoom conference or Skype meeting here with us?
P.S. Just to clarify again: Smart phones need to stay outside!
CATALYSTS AND CHANNELS FOR FUTURE FITNESS
