Unique workshops to drive business improvement

A Warwickshire-based leadership and organisational development consultancy is supporting companies in enhancing communication and problem solving through unique workshops.

Transformation Space is supporting an increasing number of clients through its Lego Serious Play workshops, which combine professional development and problem-solving with the use of Lego to help trigger thoughts and insights.

The business was founded by learning and development expert Afshan Baksh who originally began working in international skills development, but when the pandemic hit, she knew she needed to do something different.

Afshan was one of just 25 qualified Lego Serious Play facilitators in the UK but hadn’t delivered the sessions extensively. Then post-pandemic, when businesses were looking for innovative ways for their colleagues to reconnect, Transformation Space’s unique Lego workshops catapulted its success.

Lego Serious Play sessions are designed to help businesses to solve problems and develop solutions, while encouraging collaboration, creativity and innovation through the use of Lego. This approach was developed by Lego and contributed to saving the business when Lego sales dropped catastrophically in the 1990s.

Transformation Space tailors each workshop to the individual needs of each business or organisation and has worked with several well-known clients, including Dyson, Amazon, the NHS, and Microsoft.

Participants have been able to work together to develop tangible solutions to problems, which they have then been able to put into practice in the workplace.

Afshan’s latest project is collaborating with Lucy Butters, founder of Elembee Ltd, to hold cultural intelligence workshops using Lego Serious Play.

The workshops are aimed at leaders with a global dimension to their role. They explore cultural intelligence, look at ways to harness diversity, and discuss how to overcome any barriers.

There are now plans to hold the workshops twice a year following their early success.

Afshan said: “Our Lego Serious Play workshops really took off post Covid when organisations were looking for impactful ways of getting people to re-connect and also come up with solutions to various problems.

“I saw this as an opportunity to grow this area of the business and used social media as a networking tool to support with this.

“One particularly successful project was helping five hospitals to co-design one shared process for early cancer diagnosis in the north of England.

“The session helped them deepen their understanding and commitment to one vision and develop a range of clear principles that are still being used today.

“Lego Serious Play can be implemented at every level of an organisation as part of one-to-one sessions, group sessions, and team meetings.

“It’s also very exciting to have partnered with cultural intelligence expert Lucy from Elembee to enable people to explore cultural intelligence using Lego Serious Play techniques.

“As well as Lego Serious Play, we deliver leadership, change and EDI programmes.”

Further information about Transformation Space is available by visiting https://transformationspace.co.uk