[New] Business Engage Profiles Warwickshire business is building better teams

The power of Lego is being used to build bridges and transform teams thanks to a forward-thinking Warwickshire-based businesswoman.

Transformation Space provides bespoke sessions using Lego® Serious Play® approaches and can already list Amazon Web Services, Dyson and the NHS among its satisfied customers.

During Afshan Baksh's rich and varied career, she has met Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, worked on board World War One battleship HMS President, moored at Blackfriars Bridge, and has completed projects in over 30 countries.

The common strand throughout her work has been an ability and passion for developing organisations and their teams. Resolving issues, helping teams to feel heard and valued, and creating a work culture that gets results.

"The approach is backed by 15 years of research," Afshan said. "Lego® Serious Play® was created and used by Lego to save the business in the 90s when sales of Lego were plummeting due to the rise of video games and since then this approach has been used successfully by global brands and in education."

Afshan qualified as a facilitator, training with two of Lego® Serious Play®'s founders and now works with teams and their leaders to transform behaviour and unlock people’s strengths.

"I work with my clients to explore their challenges. I want to know where they are as a team, where they want to get to and why," said the Stratford-upon-Avonbased businesswoman. "I then design bespoke sessions which enable individuals to work collaboratively towards shared solutions. Lego believed that their people held the solutions to their problems, Lego® Serious Play® provides a way to find those solutions in a fun and powerful way.

"Often people say 'I am not a creative person’ when starting the sessions, but as soon as they begin to build, they intuitively access the more creative and innovative areas of their brain and the rest flowsfrom there.

"Organisation success relies on every individual in a team fulfilling their role."

Transformation Space is going from strength to strength, with British Council, Stratford-on-Avon District Council and Kenilworth-based online marketing agency Net Visibility among its clients. Drop-in taster sessions are now being planned across Coventry and Warwickshire for business leaders to come together.

"It's so important that leaders are prepared when it comes to transforming a team," Afshan added. "I've learned from past experiences that transformed teams require a different kind of leadership otherwise they risk slipping back to how they were. We're calling on leaders to come together, spark their own creativity, challenge and disrupt their norms and give up a day to see how we can benefit them and their teams."

For more information visit https://transformationspace.co.uk/ or contact Afshan directly afshan@transformationspace.co.uk