Looking for a team-building exercise...with a difference?

...then why not try taking part in one of the Miglia Quadrato events? As Lewis Hamilton sped his way to the top of this year's Formula One championship on Sunday, a small team of Melcrumites were somewhat less energetic, instead slumped bleary-eyed on our sofas, suffering the effects of an overnight motor-based treasure hunt in London's Square Mile. Perhaps you're part of your work's social committee? Or maybe you're an HR manager looking for activity suggestions for line managers to do with their teams? This type of event, which ran from 12 midnight until 5am, might be just the thing to consider. It's an unusual take on the well-worn treasure hunt: "Each clue is an eight digit Ordnance Survey grid reference (which fixes a 10m by 10m area to search) and a quotation of some text or number that can be found at the location, with some parts missing, which need to be found and written down as the answer." The event's open-to-all, works well as a team-building exercise - there's map reading, clue deciphering, eating, and it has a competitive element (although our 3-man team's first attempt probably took the lowest score of the night - 21/60 – the average is apparently in the 50s! Oh the shame). All you need is a car, a torch, and a hearty stash of Red Bull. Then it helps to have a very tall Australian to clock the answers hidden at the top of buildings, a top-notch navigator and a speed-demon of a driver! See if you can spot from the attached pic which one's which (from left to right: Vicky Burch, Melcrum's Operations Director, Annie Waite, Global Editor of the Internal Comms Hub and Peter Jones, one of Melcrum's Sales Managers): Maybe we'll see you there next year!

Comments

[Vicky Burch]

Hey, come on now, Annie - don't do us down. The winners last year only got 51, and the average was somewhere in the 40s. OK, that still doesn't make us a threat to the leaderboard, but just wait until next year when we actually know what we're doing!

[Peter Jones]

Vicky was a great driver, Annie is a savant with maps and I spent the whole trip eating their food. When the only skill you can offer the team is hight, you know you've got it made.