Singapore Scavenger Hunt

Whilst our company continues to hunt for a new MD for Singapore, I seem to be in charge of making sure things keep ticking over, that the team is happy, that work is getting done, that clients are being looked after properly, and that no one quits when we are least expecting it.

            Part of working to keep the team happy falls under my “Cultural Ambassador” title. I have to make sure that we’re getting involved in company wide events and plans, and I have to ensure that we’re celebrating the good things and participating in as many extra curricular activities as possible.

            In the past I have worked through all the normal plans to make people feel like they are celebrating. We’ve arranged big lunches that last all afternoon, we’ve had dinners, we’ve done events like the exit room sessions where you have to break codes to escape from locked rooms, all with differing degrees of success.

            This Friday it was time to get something else booked in, something that the team would enjoy and that we could do as a group. I was stumped, and in the end I reverted to whatever I would think was fun to do, and so I arrange for a scavenger hunt around Singapore. With a deadline, a list of challenges, allocated small teams and no cash to spend, I expected that the team would reject the offer and sulk all the way around.

            Not so – they have never had so much fun at one of our work events, and they have already requested that we arrange another similar challenge for the next time we have to run an event. I suppose it’s a combination of being outside, getting competitive and having to break through the clues that worked well for all of them.

            Well, you live and learn. It’s a shame that they don’t all enough a good posh dinner or expensive evening at the bar a bit more though…