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Roller Coaster Ball Business Game
Plan & build a roller coaster to meet requirements as a team under time pressure
If you have used the popular Colourblind team activity you will know of the benefits from using this training activity.
Unlike Colourblind, our Colour shapes game does not require participants to be blindfolded. In the workplace we use our eyes to help us describe what we are talking about. Colourshapes adds a visual dimension to the communication process.
While some teams strictly follow the rules, others will try to cheat by looking at their colleagues’ cards. So honesty and trust in the workplace are other key learning points raised in this game.
The table below compares key competencies in three popular communication and problem solving team activities: Colourshapes, Team Shapes and Colourblind business games. These effective training games are easily integrated into any training situations and usable in any language.
| Business Game | Colourblind®* | Colourshapes | Team Shapes |
| Overview | Colourblind training games is a blindfolded experiential learning activity to identify two coloured abstract shapes | Colourshapes is an effective interpersonal team game to establish colour & shape of missing cards | Team Shapes is a challenging communication skills game. Identify how to link cards into a pattern |
| Typical Purpose | Improve verbal problem solving, communication & listening skills using the Colourblind training game | Understand the importance of listening & seeing things from someone else’s point of view | Practise interpersonal, problem solving & planning skills, particularly with large groups of people |
| Timing | 30 to 90 mins + debrief | 15 to 40 mins + debrief | 35 to 45 minutes + debrief |
| Numbers | 6 to 28 participants. Most versatile with teams of 6-16 | 4 to 28 participants. Most versatile with teams of 6-10 plus observers | 4 to 60 participants depending on the pack you buy |
| Assessment & Recruitment | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Communication | Primary | Primary | Primary |
| Conflict Management | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Continuous & Process Improvement | ✔ | ||
| Ice Breakers & Energisers | ✔ | With 20 pack | |
| Interface Management | ✔ | ||
| Leadership & Management | Primary | ||
| Planning & Projects | ✔ | ||
| Problem Solving & Decision Making | ✔ | ✔ | Primary |
| Remote Working | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Silo Busting / Cooperation | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Strategic Mgt & Planning | ✔ | ||
| Teamwork | Primary | Primary | Primary |
| Time Management | ✔ | ||
| Conference, seminar or event | Primary | Primary | Primary |
| 40 or more people | Yes with more than one game & more than one facilitator | Yes with more than one game & more than one facilitator | Primary |
| Works for Remote Training | ✔ | ||
| Prices to Buy | £269 + delivery & VAT (if applicable) | £225 + delivery & VAT (if applicable) | £200-£260 + delivery & VAT (if applicable) |
| Prices to Facilitate | £850 + VAT for up to 28 delegates at your UK venue | £850 + VAT for up to 28 delegates at your UK venue | £850 + VAT for up to 60 delegates at your UK venue |
| Relative Advantages | Blindfolds take delegates outside of their comfort zone | Reflects real world requirements to communicate between visual and audio information with distractions | More complicated, with leadership essential and ideal for larger groups |
* Colourblind is a Registered Trademark, owned and sold by RSVP Design Limited.
Internationally the Colourblind business game is also known as Colorblind, Color Blind and Colour Blind, the Colourshapes business game is also known as Colorshapes, Color Shapes and Colour Shapes, and the Team Shapes business game is also known as Teamshapes.
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