The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) method is a technique that promotes thinking, communication and problem solving in organizations, teams and individuals.
It is based on extensive research in business, organizational development, psychology and learning.
This methodology is based on the power of "hand knowledge". Our hands are connected to 70/80 percent of our brain cells. Our brain is limited in the amount of information it can consciously handle at one time, the so-called working memory. But with the help of all the neural connections in our hands, we "know" much more at any given time than we think we know.
We live times of great demands, with never before faced challenges.
Cooperating at a distance, working in the same space you live in, dealing with new tools that are increasingly more digital, developing new habits to protect our health and that of others, creating new solutions more in tune with times of social distancing, all this represents an additional pressure that many may not feel capacitated to overcome. That is why it's so important to ensure everyone develops their resilience.
This program is based on the program developed by the Oxford College Institute of Mindfulness "Finding Peace in a Frantic World", aiming to provide answers to the mental, psychological and emotional challenges of today's society and its demands. It is a program designed for intense markets where the time invested and content applied versus the personal and professional productivity of the participant is the main focus.
Our program is coordinated by António Costa, Qualified Teacher in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, along with a team that combines extensive leadership and management experience in business environments with academic training in word-renowned faculties such as University of California and Oxford University.
We live times of great demands, with never before faced challenges.
Cooperating at a distance, working in the same space you live in, dealing with new tools that are increasingly more digital, developing new habits to protect our health and that of others, creating new solutions more in tune with times of social distancing, all this represents an additional pressure that many may not feel capacitated to overcome. That is why it's so important to ensure everyone develops their resilience.
Vision - strategic thought - creativity
Making choices and establishing goals, comes from designing paths that manifest a purpose with roots in concrete values and based on a clear conscience of the starting point - where we are and where we are going. Where having the organisation members aligned has a crucial role.To think the future and create solutions from what is, implies imagination, abstraction and vision. And the absence of that creative look often leads to stagnation. Nowadays, many organisations incorporate working models from artistic practices, applying to the corporate reality the creativity and emotion that como with them. These actions stimulate agregating attitudes and develop skills on the level of imagination, communication and flexibility, allowing to break with set patterns and reach inovative and sustenable solutions adapted to the situations.The artisitc mediation develops visualisation, abstraction and free association skills, faculties in which the strategic thought grows.To think via imagery creations broadens the range of possibilities and allows for new insights beyond the concrete and objective, making visible previously hidden aspects and leading to deeper meanings, where everything connects with everything.
Success in an unpredictable market, demands new skills. With this training, we aim to align the mind, the emotions and intuition, thus allowing to transform these three dimensions in organizational flexibility and agility, core strengths of the current leadership.
Why Leadership and Agility?
Agility is only possible when vision, strategy, organisation & leadership meet, through a systemic model & humanistic approach. Add to this that, leadership skills are changing. Being able to think about the context and past experience, and create a decision board for the future is paramount to effective leadership.
This is what we offer.
Does your team work as a real team? Are they truly cooperative? Does each one give their very best?
As markets become more and more competitive, people become your main competitive advantage. But it is not enough to have a group of talented individuals. They have to work together, as an excellent team. For this to happen, all communication must be highly assertive.
Starting from a system that identifies communication styles, the trainer Miguel Figueiredo has developed a highly practical and personalized workshop, whose goal is exactly to create the necessary environment for developing excellence in teams.
Do you feel that each of your team members has a potential that has yet to be tapped into?
Wouldn't you prefer that everyone was able to achieve as much as they can?
In order for great athletes to become champions, they must consistently achieve maximum performance. The same is true for every professional in your field.
In order to stay on top of your game, a set of conditions must be met, conditions related not only to your working environment, but above all to your attitude, beliefs and will to achieve.
The M.A.S.T.E.R.@ method converts precisely the potential we all have into highly effective productivity, thereby enabling each person to achieve goals that would otherwise be totally beyond their reach.
Increase the odds of reaching a "yes".
All of us, whether we work in sales or not, spend much of our professional lives in pitch mode, whether it's to sell a product, sell an idea, or get approval for a particular action. And as we know, decision-making processes are always influenced by a number of factors that go far beyond pure, objective rationality.
What if, when you are making a pitch, you could adapt what you say and how you say it, because you would have "behind the scenes" access and could better understand the impact you are having on the decision maker?
Do you need to make your presentations more inspiring, to better engage your audience, to strike the right balance between passing on information while also guiding action?
Trust is the best foundation for delivering effective communication that engages the audience and motivates them to action. But it is not the only factor.
This one-of-a-kind workshop provides top leaders with bespoke training so that they can develop these skills in privacy.
Together we work not only on building trust but also on perfecting advanced communication techniques, from creating flow to nonverbal communication.
The success and longevity of any business project is closely related to it's Vision and Leadership style. The perception of what makes it a reality is also born at the top. Therefore, it's continuity and maintenance is in the hands of the Partners, Managers and all the leaders that are present in its organic structure.
Coaching Skills will reinforce the need to consolidate an approach, integrates with "leadership" practices and "coaching", more harmonized between the top and its middle management and, transversally, contribute to reach a greater harmony when it comes to "group culture"
Increasing your company's ROI inevitably means ensuring the well-being and happiness of its employees. This is not a belief. It is science.
The issue of happiness has been attracting attention not only at the personal level, but the institutional one as well, as more and more studies have revealed strong correlations between happy employees and greater value creation for companies. It increases commitment and fosters a spirit of teamwork and learning, while reducing conflict, negativity and detachment.
So timely is this topic that the top 100 US company leaders came together in September 2019 to discuss how the Wall Street mindset could be changed to value investment into the well-being of all stakeholders.
This workshop serves as a starting point, where audience members will share ideas about which issues need to be addressed so as to nurture greater levels of employee happiness.
However, increasing happiness requires not only knowledge and committment but also effort, as it means changing deeply rooted habits.
That is why the last part of the workshop deals with behavioural change.
Being a professional coach has it's challenges... Ensuring that our brand reflects who we are, adequate communication strategy and being constantly growing, among others.
That is why we created this Marketing tools for coaches program.
It's an intensive 3 days program, very practical, 100% focused on your brand, service's offer, pricing and how you should communicate it, in what means, and, how to use them.
Are we all creative? Yes, we are.
Creativity can be trained, consolidated and applied as a methodology whose basic elements are in reach to anyone. For this, it's not necessary to compare oneself to a seasoned creative professional, but only to add a few good practices and methods to the set of knowledge you already have (law, consulting, finances, etc), so as to help streamline a more inovator thought, guided towards consolidation and results efficacy with a focus on people. The company and business world is changing.
The "new normal" is transforming and requires new solutions to old problems and adapting to new problems. Innovating and being creative is essential.
Strengthening the group - make fast decisions - not being afraid to take a chance.
We live in an ever more impredicatble world, where leaders need to make real time decisions, based on very little information and without the opportunity to benchmark. Therefore, they must be creative in the search for possibilities and fast in chosing the course of action. In other words, they must improvise.
Training in theatre improvisation improves the way a team communicates amongst itself, helpeing leaders, managers and executives to negotiate and conduct projects, presentations and challenges daily, by connecting with the other and with the selfs availability to relate in group settings.
Recently, the professional contexts outside of the theatre began to realise the importance of the so called "collaborative dinamics", how they stimulate creativity and strengthen the group. Thus, Improvisation golden rule, the "Yes, And..." became in an interesting tool for all, even those that have nothing to do with theatre. A lawyer, a doctor, a sportsman, they become stronger if they learn how to improvise.
What our clients say:
Trainers efficacy in responding to questions: 98%
Knowledge of the topics: 97%
Contribution for the increase of knowledge: 95%
Usefulness para the job performance: 93%
Training in it's whole (content/trainer/relevance) has a very positive evaluation for all participants and it's 100% reccomended to other employees
These are dream trips to remote, beautiful locations, yet to be discovered.
In these trips, besides getting to know the destination, you'll have time to yourself, to reflect, stop, think and rest.
Come and discover your inner-self, connect with yourself and access the vision you wish to have for your life. Develop a more in-depth understanding of your motivations, feelings and behaviours, to build and achieve your self.
These are trips thought out in detail, lodging in good hotels, organised excursions to out of the beaten path locations, and all in the company of 2 coaches.
The group will have a limit of 16 people, to make it something very special.
We have already gone to Nepal, a dream trip, with an absolute wonderful group of people, and, in Nepal, we went to the city of Katmandy, Himalayas and Chitwan (heart of the jungle).
A leaders capacity to reach positive results requires him to develop demanding core competencies both on the soft skills levels as in management and people's knowledge.
This training methodology is based on a intensive co-construction process, quite practical and full of tools that allow the development of the essentials tools for the effective performance of this job. It, also, provides self-knowledge and an assessment so that the leader knows its leadership profile, its strenghts and accompanying surveillance points in face of the current challenges.
"80% of the success in any area is in the emotional competencies" / Daniel Goleman
Motivation is extremely important for the performance and productivity of a company's employees. That's why it's exceedingly important to keep the employees motivated and happy with work, so they produce more and better.
Today, the motivation theories take into account that the human being has a need to discover it's inside design, in the framework of a personal development process that happens from the inside out. The goal is that the human being is dignified and may have a new life, with new professional and personal goals.
In order to boost employees motivation, it's necessary to act on the level of their inner self. An employee that can change his inner self, to be more whole and have a purpose is a more motivated, productive and happy employee. To achieve a new way of being in the world, without fears or anxieties regarding the future, will allow him to be a secure and happy person.
This is the aim for the motivation boost: a new life, new goals. To be able to act on this level, one must change characteristics on the inner self level of the employees, their values and identity. Only after that will it be possible to change behaviours and motivations.
And answer the questions:
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a program based on Mindfulness Techniques, developed by Dr Jon Kabat Zinn, in 1979, in the Dep. of Medicine of Massachusetts University, in the U.S.A.
Our program is directed by António Costa, a Qualified Teacher in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
This is one of the most incredible challenges of self-transcendence - and also one of the most effective. We Can Do It works the ability to overcome limits, through simple and very powerful metaphors that get us to change the way we approach the daily challenges and opportunities.
By doing things we never thought possible - like breaking boards with our hands, bending steel bars with our neck or breaking arrows - we'll test all our limiting beliefs, thus transforming fear into self-confidence. Limitations will become motivation.
We Can Do It is also an extraordinary opportunity to reinforce the importance of team work and improve the quality of the results of the group works. At the same time it develops individual qualities, this process creates a strong union and understanding amongst the team, reinforcing the idea of working together as one of the most powerful tools to achieve the intended results.
Have you ever thought why we say we need to move in order to solve a problem?
Movement is associated with sight improvement and may even be determinant in solving questions as diverse as, for example, the launching of a new project, the outline of new ideas or work policies or the solution to structural problems that are dragging in time.
It's probably not the first solution you'd think of to solve your current problems. That's why it's innovative. Remember that the same paths lead to the same results. And if you're looking for a truly innovative and creative response, you'll only get it by trying a different path.
Energy Dance is a new approach to company’s problems and may be an excellent unblocker, by helping you to look towards the same questions with different perspectives and by finding more creative and out of the ordinary paths, for problems that are persistent in your organizational structure.
Clarity, bigger observational capacity and visualisation, better intuition and new ideas, are some of the results that you may expect from this transfomational experience, that will put you in contact with your vitality and creativity, so as to discover new answers.
Allow yourself to be surprised.
To walk on glass may seem impossible, one of those insurmountable obstacles but it's on the decision to walk that resides its huge transformational potential.
The secret is the complete focus in the process. As in the most demanding personal and professional challenges, this exercise leads us to high concentration levels. It's very important that we can be totally "inside" the developing action by eliminating distraction.
GlassWalking is a process that will allow us to leave old beliefs, reassess values and free the mind of the secondary via the power of concentration. We'll bring to the present moment all our ability to overcome and leave behind all the fears.
What separates us from our ability to achieve?
What is a team missing to take its goals farther? How can a workshop that teaches how to walk on fire take a team to the other side of trust? The answer may depend on one small step…
Take that step. Move towards FireWalking - an unique opportunity to challenge mental limits and awaken the capacity to overcome that fear that holds back your team and stops it from reaching further.
This is a challenge capable of drastically improving self-confidence, passion for live and capacity for action, proving that personal achievement is a strong catalist in professional performance.
Much more than a simple walk over embers, FireWalking are exercises that lead leaders and teams to new performance heights, by teaching them to deal with blockages and overcome, progressively, the satisfaction and motivation limits.
This process has helped companies like BES, REMAX, PT, ACTIVOBANK, MACDONALDS or BOEHRINGER to awaken it's teams potential, leading them to their strategic goals faster and with greater consistency.
Through a dynamic, thrilling and above all highly enriching personally and professionally process, you team will achieve all you would like it to and even more than you ever expected. It will make the impossible, possible!
