Decision maze
Decision maze is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Set the objective: analyze a problem, evaluate strategic options, or practice decision-making skills?
- Create a diagram with multiple decision paths leading to different outcomes. Each path should include options, challenges, and possible consequences.
- Example: “If you choose A, you face X; if you choose B, you move towards Y but lose Z.”
- Diagrams, whiteboards, or digital platforms to display the maze and options.
- Tokens, notes, or visual resources to represent decisions and their effects.
- If in-person, arrange stations representing each decision point.
- If virtual, use interactive tools to navigate the maze online.
- Emphasize the importance of analyzing options and reflecting on their consequences.
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Prompts to use +
Set the objective: analyze a problem, evaluate strategic options, or practice decision-making skills?
Create a diagram with multiple decision paths leading to different outcomes. Each path should include options, challenges, and possible consequences.
Example: “If you choose A, you face X; if you choose B, you move towards Y but lose Z.”
If in-person, arrange stations representing each decision point.
If virtual, use interactive tools to navigate the maze online.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Decision maze. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Set the objective: analyze a problem, evaluate strategic options, or practice decision-making skills?; Create a diagram with multiple decision paths leading to different outcomes. Each path should include options, challenges, and possible consequences.; Example: “If you choose A, you face X; if you choose B, you move towards Y but lose Z.”; If in-person, arrange stations representing each decision point.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
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