Build your company’s new HQ

Company culture made fun like a company event.
Through play and discussion, uncover your motivations at work, and build a new home for those ambitions with your colleagues. A full day of meaningful play that will build a new home for your company’s culture. In LEGO.

Events with playful
learning

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Session 1: What is important at work?

Values in Action. Platform for discussing the ongoing work around integrating organizational values into everyday practices. Practical exercise: End exercise discussing how upcoming building of HQ should be handled. Who does what? What are criterias for success? What parameters should behind concept & design?

How: Moderated discussions in smaller groups, exercises & affirmation.

Outcome: Clarity of where we stand, possibilities of growth and next steps.

A man with dark hair and a white t-shirt is writing on a yellow sticky note with a red marker. He is sticking the notes on a wooden wall that already has several other sticky notes, some of which include text and drawings.

Session 2: Concept & design phase of New HQ

Which take-aways from value workshop are to be included in the design and concept of new HQ? Key questions: What does the chosen values demand? How do you translate those values into a physical form?

How: In bigger group setting, participants are asked to bring key findings to table. Brain storming of how what constitutes a home for your values? What does it look like in real life? Who does what?

Outcome: Creating a vision and team-spirit for theme of day: building a new HQ for your company’s values. Exercise form basis for distribution of tasks in actual building phase.

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Session 3: Lunch workshop

Value exercise: Make a sandwich with ingredients that represent your ideas of the workplace. Discuss and justify your choices of ingredients to the other group that is eating your creation.

Plenty of food will of course be provided

How: Two bigger groups practise their value-work on a sandwich.

Outcome: You get food, and practise translating values into a physical form.

Three LEGO mini-figures in yellow, pink, and blue, standing behind a yellow and white striped barrier on a plain light gray background.

Session 4 part 1: Build your new headquarters

The process of building begins, including decision on approach. Things to consider: Is there going to be simultaneous construction of various parts of building? Do you want one project manager to oversee implementation of design and concept? Do you want to sketch an overall design to improve an homogeneous look?

How: Team decides approach.

Outcome: A physical representation of a new home for your company’s culture, in the shape of LEGO, ready to take home.

Miniature toy scene depicting a man in a green shirt crawling on the ground outside a building, with small objects and details like a red fire hydrant, a tiny dog, and building windows and walls in the background.

Break: Feedback exercise and Tools for good Communication

A break from HQ-building. Physical exercise, and tools for problem solving and collaboration.

In this session, we will dive into the coaching approach, where you will learn how to use simple yet powerful questions and Feedback techniques as tools for everyday problem-solving and improving understanding among team members.

How: Exercise in giving constructive feedback and effective communication techniques, moderated via fun physical tasks.

Outcome: Better understanding of colleagues, and new tools for engaging constructively, that can be put into practice at work.

Three LEGO figurines dressed as astronauts in yellow, pink, and blue, standing behind a yellow and white striped barrier against a plain gray background.

Session 4 part 2: Build your new headquarters, cont.

The process of building continues, including work from exercise in communication skills.

How: Team carries on buidling under our guidance.

Outcome: A physical representation of a new home for your company culture, in the shape of LEGO, ready to take home.

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Session 5: Wrap-up and presentations of designs

All together, explain design and the decisions leading to them. What were the main design decisions, and what are they based on? Project is preserved and presented as take-home gift for teams.

How: Staged presentation and explanation of work with new new HQ. Moderators will ask questions and solicit team’s conclusions.

Outcome: Buy-in of process and value work of the day. Final thoughts, key learnings, and what are we willing to commit to in order to honor our values tomorrow?

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Session 6: Wrap party for your company culture!

Wrap party: Dinner with conversation cards: Tricky questions to get a new conversation started with your seating partner. Afterwards party with DJ.

How: Food, drinks & good vibes!

Outcome: Feeling of achievement and connection with each other. Willingness to engage in our common goals.