Overview
These activities, although of a fun nature, will have serious benefits for your team.  They will increase communication and gain new strengths and insights within the team.

The activities can encourage your team to be more inclusive. The more inclusive the team, the greater the number of talents and viewpoints will be on hand to tackle problems.

They can also encourage trust within a team by creating a safe environment in which employees feel free to offer constructive criticism without fear of retribution. Therefore the organization will gain strength.

Finally, you will improve motivation by keeping the team fresh and feeling valued by having fun together outside of the workplace.

The Exercise
The objective of this teambuilding exercise is to transfer 1 or more balls from one side of a dedicated area, to the other, in a railroad style.

This team building exercise is ideal as an indoor or outdoor teambuilding game at a conference, it is a superb concept to highlight the key roles of team work, communication, the bigger picture, and of course fun.

It can be used for any size of conference. More than one railway can be created, with teams competing for the fastest. The group will need to plan their strategy, interact with each other, delegate roles, and complete the exercise against the clock.

This is a teambuilding exercise which achieves objectives in a short space of time, and provides a hilarious activity for ALL group members.

Key tips will be given as to what the construction should be based on, i.e: the Y shaped support structure and parallel railway runners.

On completion groups will need to figure out how to travel the ball:

The Mexican Wave

With the entire group positioned all the way down the railway, with their arms under the track, they will need to perform a Mexican wave in complete consistence for the ball to move.

Additional challenges can be added to this team building exercise such as more than one ball, or racing various railways, head to head.