When Mary Arnold, human resources director for Atlanta-based engineering construction company AMEC, needed to get employees together after various organizational changes and acquisitions and the installation of a new leadership team, she chose the context of a "Survivor" challenge. Working with Moonshadow Learning Services, the group was divided into teams that were assigned various tasks modeled after the popular television show. Typical tasks include orienteering challenges, problem- and riddle-solving, and timed competitions. "I happen to be on the leadership team, and so my objective was to have the team work better together," Arnold says. "The 'Survivor' courses related our behavior patterns as a team to our individual personality profiles, and that helped in getting the individuals in the team to know each other better." A month after the program, Arnold says the teambuilding is still paying off. "I can definitely see a difference [in the team] since then. It has really opened the communication lines."