Activities For Team Building - Human Knot

To learn to work together in close physical proximity they must untangle themselves from the human knot without letting go!  A TRUST and COMMUNICATION exercise.


Activities for Team Building are designed for your group to work together, trust each other and develop tactics in this fun to do team activity.  Oh! Just one thing, team members are inter linked and will rely on their team members for expert communication to guide them through.

 

To play, the groups must communicate and figure out how to untangle the knot (forming a circle of people) without ever letting go of any hands. If you wish, this icebreaker can be played competitively, in which the facilitator says “Ready.. Set.. Go!” and has all the groups race to become the first group to finish. If any group member lets go of a hand (breaks the chain), then the group must start from the beginning, or you could impose a penalty/punishment for that person (e.g. wear a blindfold).


This game typically takes 15-30 minutes to complete. You can impose a time limit if you wish to make the game more challenging. When you are done with the Human Knot activity, you can ask some debrief questions if you wish, such as “How well did you group work together? What strategies did your group adopt? How did it feel to solve the game?” etc.


Variations

To increase the difficulty level, you can either (1) blindfold some of the players or (2) require that the game be played silently (no talking).


  • Communication and trust
  • Co operation
  • Strategy development and implementation



Another great trust game from our vast range of Tebu activities is

Blindfold Minefield Maze.




Some Debriefing Questions
Did you allocate roles?
Did you use your planning time well?
Did everyone feel that they were involved?
Did communication work for the group? Could it have been improved?
Did anyone have the clearer picture?
How was time managed?
How did you solve it as a team?
Were you flexible and adapt your plan?
Did you take enough risk?

 

If you are looking for activities for team building then this one gets every one going and builds a nice balance between co operation and competition.



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