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Increasing learning through play

For Trainers, Facilitators, and Coaches who want to enhance their sessions and
​enable their learners to feel heard and valued
Great Trainers know that using different activities in their sessions helps learners to; explore deeper, engage more, and gain better retention of learning too.

One of the best activities to enable this... is building bricks.

​In this course we'll be looking at 6 different building brick activities that could be used individually or as a whole programme to help Line Managers upskill and become better people managers.

What will you find in this online course?

Includes 6 topics all with introduction videos, hands-on demonstration videos, a full downloadable guide  and PowerPoint slides for you to be able to use straight away with your own learners. (Plus a BONUS activity.)
The course follows four key topic​
In this course you will find 6 flexible building brick activities (Plus a little bonus activity too!) to help you train, facilitate, or coach Line Managers in a creative, informative, and engaging way.
Every activity has its own video introduction, hands-on video demonstration to show you how the activity might play out, plus a downloadable worksheet for easy reference, AND unbranded Powerpoint slide/s that you can use in your sessions to aid visual reinforcement.
  1. Introductions (To help ease your learners into using building brick activities )
  2. What makes a great line manager? - (Focusing on how to identify and reduce development gaps.)
  3. Communications preferences - (Understanding own communications style in order to better communicate with others.)
  4. Team Road Map - (Identifying a vision for your team.)
  5. Skill Will Model - (Delegating skills - considering who has the skill AND will.)
  6. Setting expectation - (A short activity with big impact.)
  7. PLUS - Outline of a business case to support using Lego in your sessions AND A Bonus Activity 
People from 36 countries, (Using 11 different languages) have completed the
'Activities for Management Development Programmes - using Builsing bricks' online course!
Data as of June 2023
As an L&D Professional with over 20 years’ experience, I have run hundreds of Management Development sessions, and use building bricks with a lot with my own leaners because of the extra level of discussion it enables. I hope this course will help shine a light not only on how building bricks can benefits learners, but also some of useful examples of management development topics.
Includes 6 topics all with introduction videos, hands-on demonstration videos, a full downloadable guide  and PowerPoint slides for you to be able to use straight away with your own learners. (Plus a BONUS activity.)

As well as video demonstrations, there is also: a full PDF guide, ​and unbranded PowerPoint Slides for each topic!

"Perfetto! Veloce, chiaro, illuminante!!!" 
Lara Galetto  
​⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
("Perfect! Fast, clear, enlightening!!!")

Business Case
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You may already be sold on the idea, but if it’s not here's just three reasons I use Lego with my learners… 
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ONE
It increases ‘lean in’ interaction.  By this I mean, if you ask a question of your learners, they often go into their heads to answer, and if this is a group setting, only a few will actually voice their thoughts.   By using Lego to build the answer, people have to use external processes too, plus everyone is encouraged to explain their build (answer) meaning more people are heard… they ‘lean in’ to the learning.  (Better engagement means less time away from work roles)​

TWO
It allows for better retention of learning.  Building, explaining, and having some fun in the process makes the event more memorable, which when mixed with learning new information releases chemicals in the brain to aid retention better.  (Better retention means quicker uptake in changes) 

THREE
Less expectation of being correct - Lego is a universally recognisable product. Put it in front of people and they simply start building, this is because Lego can mean anything to anyone.  With less restrictions to being ‘right’ more people take part and experience better learning.  (Less expectations mean quicker learning, which means better use of budget)