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Not A Knot
Decision-making team challenge to explore group consensus processes.
- Simple set-up
- Focus on decision-making skills
- Promotes consensus-making
- Develops empathy
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Decision-Making Team Challenge
This dynamic team-building exercise creates a powerful learning opportunity about group dynamics and consensus-building. Not A Knot is a decision-making team challenge that uses a simple rope formation to reveal how people approach decisions with limited information. It can highlight cognitive biases and how groups navigate uncertainty when making decisions, providing valuable insights that apply to real-world scenarios.
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Original post October 2015, last updated October 2025.
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Mark! Thanks so much for showing us how to set up the knot! I had to practice over and over! Also, what type of rope to use! I was using a different kind which would often tangle, but you are right, still made for just as interesting of an activity. I absolutely love this one, we often have a great discussion around how we have lost our ability to have civil debate with one another (here in America), without feeling the need to “prove our rightness”. Love it!
Lynne, you are so right, I LOVE this exercise. Always triggers such great conversations, and all you need is a knotty rope 🙂
Really fantastic activity that brings out great conversations on how we come make decisions and how we come to create our beliefs and how far we are willing to stand by those beliefs. This translates into much wider conversations and events in our greater world as well.
Depending on how you also run the activity can offer perspectives on how we share our values, observations, thoughts and opinions. It can also help offer some insight in our powers of persuasion.
Very simple demonstration that can lead to very powerful and meaningful conversations and thoughts on how on can perceive the world.