The Playful BAGeorgiana Mannion

"You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than you can from a lifetime of conversation"

- Plato

9 – Questions8 – Other uses of play 7 – Doodles6 – Games to play5 – LEGO Serious Play™4 – Power of Play3 – Epistemology2 – Understanding groups1 – Legitimising play

Legitimising playBut I am a grown up

"Every child learns at a very early stage that when they’re asked a question in school they must first ask themselves a question: What answer does the asker expect? That’s the way you get through school, by providing people with the answers they expect."

- Dr. Russell L. Ackoff

Negate fundamentals

Remove structure

Remove the need for seriousness

Cost a fortune

What playfulness doesn’t do

Understanding groups

With group dynamics

Barriers and opportunities

Stereotypes / Prejudice

Personalities and Personas

Introvert/Extrovert

Emotions

The problems with groups

Too weak / too strong authority

Blocking

Free riding

Over evaluation

Groupthink

EpistemologyThe theory of knowledge

Dr Kevin De Souza –Facilitating Tacit Knowledge Exchange, COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM June 2003/Vol. 46, No. 6

Tacit Knowledge Study

Power of PlayAnd being abstract

Lego Serious Play ™Not actually serious

Seriously Lego

Strategy development and exploration

Organisational development

Innovation and product development

Change management

Scenario development and testing

Teaching grown ups Test Driven Development …using Lego Kev McCabe http://bigmadkev.com

Games to playDo try this at home

Personas

Name them

Describe their input

Everyone contribute pieces

Agree the person

Refer back

Strategy Play

Provide Lego

Ease in with games

Set times

Set the challenges

Everyone talks

Plan

Assign times

Build

Update

Review

Lego Estimation

Devil’s advocate

Use the consensus

Empower one or more

Invite all challenges

React

The opposite of play isn’t work, it’s depression.

- Dr Stuart Brown

ADULTS

PLAYING

Doodles & daydreams

To keep attention!

Why the crayons?

Other uses of playNot just for BAs

QuestionsOr even complaints

Georgiana Mannion@processincolour

Skype: georgianafleur

Georgiana@processincolour.co.uk

www.processincolour.co.uk