Just like starlings responding to their nearest neighbors, your team members start making choices that naturally align with collective success. The impact builds exponentially when everyone is tuned into the same frequency.

The result? Teams that can shift direction quickly, respond to challenges collectively, and create something greater than the sum of their individual parts.

If you step back and watch adults work on something together, these CHILD-like actions become very clear. After running over 100 workshops, I've seen these patterns so consistently that I now know certain moments to look for - like when the extrovert decides to take over the group, or my favorite, the anticipatory smile when people first get their LEGO kit.

Dale Carnegie said "To be interesting, be interested. People get animated when they get to talk about their passions.  When done correctly in groups, this adds to the depth and dimension in which people see each other.  When we know people better, we share more easily, are more vulnerable, more forgiving, and more open.  The key is to make this feel natural and not forced. 

When people receive, unwrap and start handling their own LEGO story building kit, there is this smile that appears on people's faces. Sometimes its big, sometimes small. But it's personal, for them. Like they've been brought back in time. They are sitting on the edge of play and there is this excitement and joy - not to a level of exuberance, but a more patient and expectant smile.