Travel the World Virtually with Team Building Asia
Teams Explore the Six Continents and Seven Seas in Under Two Hours
Headquartered in Paris, Pernod Ricard operates with 86 direct affiliates worldwide. When the Travel Retail division of this renowned French wine and spirits group sought to reconnect their remote teams across Asia, they turned to Team Building Asia to create an unforgettable virtual experience.
Through the engaging online programme Race Around the World, participants embarked on a digital journey across six continents in just a few hours — solving challenges, discovering new cultures, and strengthening bonds along the way. What began as a virtual activity quickly became a shared adventure that reignited connection, collaboration, and team spirit. The result? A re-energised team that felt closer than ever, despite being miles apart.
OBJECTIVES
- Connecting Teams Spread Around the World
- Boost Engagement & Results
- Enhance Effective Communication
CHALLENGES
- Delivering Linear Digital Communication Across Teams
- Ensuring the Best Details & Materials
- Making it Accessible via Zoom
SOLUTIONS
- “How to Play Guide”
- Checking of Data Connectivity
- Company Specific Elements in the Program
RESULT
- Growing Connections through Gamified Experience
- Awareness of Communication Challenge
Company-Specific Checkpoints and Questions
Before they could set foot on a continent, each team had to select one explorer to lead the way. The rest of the team were guides who received other pieces of information, thus they all needed to connect with each other to complete each challenge. Each continent contained culture-specific questions and challenges, and even Pernod-Ricard-specific questions! Additional to the three types of checkpoints, the customised P-icons included Special Pernod-Ricard checkpoints. Most of them were related to their conference from the morning. This funky twist boosted team spirit and helped to build the connection Pernod Ricard was looking for.
How to Get to Places?
In order to make a journey from one city to another, the explorer could select one out of three different means of transport. Each with different types of challenges and each worth a different number of points. To complete a car journey, the teams were asked to take a group photo in which they hold a certain object, everyone had to be visible in order to score points.
The boat journeys were worth most points as they had a twist! In order to take a boat, teams had to complete a threefold question in which the answer is fragmented, mix and match the right answers or rely on one of the guides to pick up the right answer from the screen only they can see. Tricky!
If they were able to complete the three different types of journeys, by boat, by train and by car, they unlocked a bonus city of 50 points. Only bonuses in this game!
So, Was it Collaborative or Competitive?
The answer is: both. Teams had to work together, communicate, discuss strategies, solve problems and make decisions together. On the other hand, there was a competition element as leadership boards were shown throughout the game and the game could be won by the explorer with the most points – reverting to a collaborative aspect as they all had to work together in order for their explorer to collect as many points as possible. This required strategic thinking, which was discussed in teams before the start of the game, during the game and revised at the end of the game.
More information about Race Around the World. We also have a festive edition for the Christmas holidays.
Team Building Asia was on top of all technical requirements and concerns. Thanks to their hands-on approach, we could concentrate on team engagement and having fun. Furthermore, we were impressed with the level of advancement but technical simplicity of the game, everyone understood it easily, yet it was something we had never seen before. I definitely recommend Team Building Asia for all virtual and remote team building activities.
