The Red Bull Trolley Grand Prix, a national trolley derby race, took place at Auckland Domain in February, after a 10-year hiatus.
There were 52 trolleys entered with two people from each team navigating a course which included obstacles, hills, tricky corners and multiple paths.
Our Workshop has recently had a lot of new team members join the team, and they thought that entering the Red Bull Trolley Race would be a novel and entertaining team building exercise.
As the team is always working on tractors and harvesters all day, they decided to base their trolley design on something that they all knew well, building a mini tractor, affectionately called Ted.
Kiwis’ favourite vegetable is broccoli, and we grow tonnes of the veg, so the Workshop decided to combine the two hence the team name The Broccoli Boys!
The broccoli costumes were purchased and the team assembled to create a dance as part of the entry requirements.
‘The most challenging part of the whole experiences was choreographing the dance and then trying to remember all the moves at the beginning of the race!’ says William McIntyre.
‘Making the trolley and doing the designs was the fun part!’ said Bryce Kelly.
‘It was such an epic event to be a part of. Turns out Kiwis really do love their broccoli, and we had heaps of support,” said Matt Donaldson.
‘Bryce did an awesome job of getting Ted the Tractor down the race, however, turns out our broccoli costume ended up acting like a parachute and slowed us down a bit!’ added Matt Donaldson.
Overall, the whole team had an awesome time and achieved one of the most engaged and successful team bonding activities.
‘We’ve recommended other teams at LeaderBrand give it a go next year,’ laughed Matt Donaldson.
Click here to read The NZ Herald article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-broccoli-boys-represent-gisborne-at-red-bull-trolley-grand-prix/LM2CPYEGOJFKNH42WULMZEUWQM/