Learning Leadership through Serious play

ANU Research School of Management

Dr Shari Read & Dr Stephen DannSenior Lecturers, Research School of ManagementAustralian National University

6 June 2018

The Presenters… Dr Stephen Dann

ANU Vice Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

Certified Lego® Serious Play™ Facilitator

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To be evidence-based

educators, leaders need

to develop certain

functional and core

capabilities alongside

fundamental knowledge

about education.

Developed by Alessandra Capezio & Patrick L’Espoir Decosta

Design: Camilo Potocnjak-Oxman

Transformative Leading

participatory leadership skills

active listening,

proactive sense-making

levelling the playing field(s)

Cognitive maturity

Growth mindset

Design thinking

Evidence-based decision making

Emotional intelligence

Human-focused

Adaptive expertiseMindfulness

Cognitive maturity

Growth mindset

Design thinking

Evidence-based decision making

Emotional intelligence

Human-focused

Adaptive expertiseMindfulness

The key to good design is having empathy for the needs of others.

Lego® Serious Play™

play with a purpose and a goal in mind

Play allows exploration of the real world without a fear of consequences

creates an environment of openness and community

The Power of Few

Operation Platypus

The TaskBuild a duck

And that’s why it’s called Operation Platypus – it’s a Duck Build Kit

Welcome to group workTime to meet your neighbours!

Phase 2Remove two bricks

What makes it a duck?

Phase 3Remove two more pieces

How is it a duck?

How is it a duck?It becomes a duck when we say “This is a duck”

The builder owns the meaning of the model

Deconstruct the Duck

Build Duck 2.0

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What makes this Duck 2.0?

Deconstruct the Duck

Build a Not a Duck

Anything but a duck

And that’s why it’s called Operation Platypus – it’s a Duck Build Kit

What is the new thing?

Not the duck

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Deconstruct the model

DebriefThe Three Imaginations

The ‘inner work’ of transformation and change

Sharing of Experiences

Questions

Thank you

Shari.read@anu.edu.auStephen.dann@anu.edu.au

ANU Research School of Management