In fact there are no rules to limit your creativity whatsoever - only the expectation of fair play. It’s quite a lot of running with the teams covering approximately 10km for the latest one!! As aids, you can use Google Maps, a bicycle, public transport, Ubers, taxis…actually anything you can think of. The teams are challenged to collaboratively solve each task as quickly as possible, then physically move from one place to the next without leaving a team member behind. Two staff members are chosen to create the race each cycle and they act as coaches for each team taking photos to document the journey and to ensure that no one gets too far away from the intended course. Much like the Amazing Race you would have seen on TV, the contestants have to complete the tasks given to them at each checkpoint before they can continue their journey to the next destination which is informed by solving the previous task.

Team building is typically a significant expense for any company at an offsite, but we’ve come up with an innovative solution to make it fun, effective and incredibly affordable while forcing the team’s to develop their communication skills and trust in each other…Music Health’s very own Amazing Race! We’re still a lean startup so we book cheap flights, host people from out of town in our homes (or cheap hotels) and do our best to have fun on a budget. Twice a year (every 2nd quarter), we fly everyone into Sydney to do the planning in-person and build personal relationships with each other. It’s the most important part of our regular operating cadence that gives us permission to stop and think about what we are doing and to question whether our efforts could be best spent elsewhere.

We work from home as the default and while some teams come together on a weekly basis to do group work and share ideas, others would never see each other at all in person if it weren’t for our quarterly offsites.Įach quarter, we collaborate as a global team to take a retrospective look at the quarter gone by, evaluate our team health with Squadify and then make decisions about where we need to focus for the following two quarters. Like many other companies these days, Music Health is a hybrid operation built on the foundations of being a distributed team. So what is Music Health’s Amazing Race all about?

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