Introducing your learners to the delights of learning with Lego®

If you’re thinking of using LEGO® in your sessions, you might also have thought about how your learners might react to you suddenly producing what is essentially a kid’s toy for them to use.

Most people take to LEGO® quickly and without hesitation, but for others, you might need to acclimatise them to the concept that there are no right or wrong answers, and that they can be a great prop for broadening their answers in sessions.  So, if you’re a Trainer, Facilitator or Coach, and are looking to increase the creativity of your sessions, LEGO® is a great resource to use.

In this course we’ll focus on how using LEGO® activities that gives you 7 flexible activities which can be linked to:

  • Introducing your learners to LEGO®
  • Creative thinking
  • Challenging the assumed rules
  • Change management
  • Doing more with less
  • Feeling unprepared / Planning
  • Starting a discussion around problem solving
  • Working as a team
  • Communications skills
  • Personality preference
  • Setting standards and expectations
  • Deciphering information / Clarifying
  • Finding the shortest route to getting an answer
  • How to challenge upwards
  • Giving instructions
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Who is this course for?

  • Trainers

    Trainers who want activities to help retention of learning

  • Facilitators

    Facilitators who want a creative way to engage discussion

  • Coaches

    Coaches who want to create a hands-on approach to problem solving

What will you find in this course?

8 flexible LEGO® activities to help you introduce your learners to using LEGO® in your training, facilitation, or coaching sessions.

Every activity has it's own hands-on video demonstration to show you how the activity might play out, plus a downloadable worksheet for easy reference.

(All videos have English and Spanish subtitles.)

In this course we look at:

SIX BRICKS AND BEYOND

  • Six Bricks - Build a Tower - (Creative thinking, challenging the assumed rules, change management, doing more with less, and feeling unprepared.)
  • Hanging off the Edge - (Discussion starter, problem solving, planning, working as a team.)
  • Pictionary LEGO® - (Communications skills, exploring personality preference, setting standards and expectations, deciphering information, working as a team, finding the shortest route to getting an answer. and challenge upwards.)
  • Back-to-Back - (Visual communication, clarification, challenge the rules, and giving instructions.)
  • PDF worksheets
  • PDF Shopping list


SKILLS BUILDS 

  • Build a Tower - (Acclimatising learners to use bricks in your session.)
  • Five Pieces - (Creating stories through brick building.)
  • Build a Creature - (Using metaphors and storytelling to describe an answer.)
  • My Monday Morning - (Introduce your learners to story telling.)
  • PDF worksheets
  • PDF Shopping list

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Try before you buy!

Click on the free preview button at the top of the page and view one of the activities and download the Worksheet for free.

This way you can see what the content is like BEFORE you buy the course.  The free preview on the course is: ‘BUILD A TOWER’

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Six Bricks and Skills Build - WELCOME - VIDEO

    • Six Bricks and Skills Builds - A note from Nikie

  • 2

    SIX BRICKS AND BEYOND - WELCOME

    • Six Bricks - WELCOME - VIDEO

    • Six Bricks - OVERVIEW

    • Six Bricks - SHOPPING LIST
  • 3

    Six Bricks - Build a Tower

  • 4

    Six Bricks - Hanging off the Edge

    • Six Bricks - Hanging off the Edge - VIDEO

    • Six Bricks - Hanging off the Edge- WORKSHEET
  • 5

    Six Bricks - Pictionary LEGO

    • Pictionary LEGO - VIDEO

    • Pictionary LEGO - WORKSHEET
  • 6

    Six Bricks - Back-to-Back

    • Six Bricks - Back-to-Back - VIDEO

    • Six Bricks - Back-to-Back - WORKSHEET
  • 7

    SKILLS BUILDS - WELCOME

    • Skills Builds - WELCOME - VIDEO

    • Skills Builds - OVERVIEW

    • Skills Build - SHOPPING LIST
  • 8

    Skills Builds - Build a Tower

    • Skills Builds - Build a Tower - VIDEO

    • Skills Builds - Build a Tower - WORKSHEET
  • 9

    Skills Builds - Five Pieces

    • Skills Builds - Five Pieces - VIDEO

    • Skills Builds - Five Pieces - WORKSHEET
  • 10

    Skills Builds - Build a Creature

    • Skills Builds - Build a Creature - VIDEO

    • Skills Builds - Build a Creature - WORKSHEET
  • 11

    Skills Builds - My Monday Morning

    • Skills Builds - My Monday Morning - VIDEO

    • Skills Builds - My Monday Morning - WORKSHEET
  • 12

    And finally...

    • More Lego courses

    • Discount for 'An Introduction to Lego® Serious Play®' course

    • Other ways to work together...

Price

(The 'skills build' activity in this course or taken from another course called 'An Introduction to Lego® Serious Play®'. If you are thinking of enrolling in this other course, there is a discount code available once you have completed the Six Bricks and Skills Build course. This is so you do not have to pay to see the same activities twice.)

Instructor Bio

Nikie Forster

You might not think early roles in radio, interior design and DIY sound like the most convincing career choices for someone who has since spent over two decades as a Learning and Development professional! But all three of these roles gave me some great opportunities to learn about people, hone my training, and facilitation skills, and craft my own path in a career I love. Having gained many professional qualifications and experience in public and private sector L&D roles, I founded Curious Lighthouse Learning Consultancy Ltd in early 2016, where I specialises in increasing competence and confidence in Line Managers and Trainers to enhance their performance, whether they are at the very start of their journey or experienced professionals. ​​ I love that my role allows me to work with all types of companies from small growing companies to larger established corporates, and from local charities to the NHS Trusts. ​I'm passionate about using creative learning methods which, as well as increasing engagement in the sessions, ensures better retention of information and quicker transfer of skills back into the workplace. (And yes, I do use LEGO® in many of the my sessions!!) ​​​Curious Lighthouse is based in Hampshire and mainly serves the south coast.

Testimonials

“Attended a fantastic session this morning on creative training ideas with the inspiring Nikie Forster of Curious Lighthouse. Sessions like these rekindle my love of teaching and remind me why I do it! Nikie can make any topic fun, thought-provoking and effective, at any level of a corporation. Invest in your people and get her involved!”

Sara Ellul - Business Lecturer

“Hands up if you think you are creative?' That is a question that usually leads to me putting my hands firmly on the ground! But, after a session with Nikie Forster of Curious Lighthouse, I was thinking completely differently........ Enlightening and motivating, I am now kidding myself I can be a NASA Astronaut, have a new desk buddy called 'Daisy Duck' and am the proud owner of this beautiful lighthouse... Thank you Nikie for such an informative session.”

Laura Macarthy MICB - Certified Bookkeeper & Director at Now Bookkeeping Ltd

“Nikie was absolutely brilliant - very inclusive and highly supportive of all participants across a range of abilities. Thank you Nikie for sharing this very useful learning with us! ”

Martine Bolton - Trainer, Consultant, Author and Speaker

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