Why team building?

What better way to get your team working together towards an end goal - all while fine-tuning their soft skills and creative thinking processes - than to have them ushered into a dark room, lock the door behind them and insist they work together to flee their... Escape Room!

Unlike traditional team building activities and corporate events (think your family-friendly Sunday picnic, a personality workshop, Friday afternoon drinks, or a "motivational speaker"... *yawn*), escape rooms provide an adrenaline pumping hour of brain-teasing activity that your team members will actually be excited about!

Best of all, however, escape rooms promote a whole range of soft skills that can be directly applied in the workplace come Monday morning! For Perth-based organisations of four to to 400+ staff, our escape room sessions are designed to bring out the very best in your team.

But how does an escape room setting work for team building? It's quite simple really.

1. Choose a location, our site or yours. Book your team building event for 4 to 400+ staff at our Northbridge escape centre, or we can come to you with The President's Briefcase and transform your space (warehouse, boardroom, office or retail space) into an escape room experience.
   
   
2. We'll lock away your team. In teams of between 2 and 10 people depending on the chosen escapes, we'll provide your team an introduction to the escape room process before we close the door on them and turn the key... and being able to run multiple sessions simultaneously, we can have up to 100 of your staff locked away per hour.
   
   
3. They work as a team to escape. As soon as the countdown begins, your team will need to employ their teamwork, problem solving, time management and communication skills to find the clues & solve the puzzles that will allow their escape.

Escape rooms by their very nature force the escapers to apply their soft skills in a team setting to creatively solve the challenges presented to them if they’re to escape. But what are those soft skills, and how could they be relevant to your organisation?

Time Management.
Our escape rooms excel at putting your team under time pressure. This is when personalities are the most visible, and most vulnerable. You will witness time management skills either emerge or evaporate. You will learn more about your team in the last 5 minutes of our escape rooms than you could in any conventional

5-hour team building exercise.

Teamwork.

Solving the challenges of an escape room requires impeccable teamwork. Good or bad, you’ll find out which of your colleagues are lone wolves, and which are part of the pack. Can they remain calm under pressure, or will they show signs of stress? Will they realise everyone has different strengths that add to the overall success of the team?

Problem Solving & Critical Thinking.
Overcoming complex hurdles with well honed problem solving skills is a key challenge in the workplace, just as it is an escape room! Our rooms force your team to switch gears and to think through problems or puzzles like never before, to don their 'creative thinking caps’ and brainstorm solutions to the clues they are presented.

Communication.
Teams play out a fully immersive themed scenario in which they must communicate over a variety of distractions: the chaos of the unknown, and a time crunch. “Active communication” will test the boundaries of each player's personality. You’ll learn which of your team are wall flowers, and which jump in and exhibit winning team skills to get the job done within the time limit.

Leadership & Delegation.
Our escape rooms will draw out your colleagues' natural abilities to plan, delegate, motivate and execute. Who will take the lead to direct the group or assign tasks? Watch as teammates automatically fall into their natural roles and perform according to their natural strengths to beat the clock and win the day!

Logical Reasoning.
Not everyone can logic their way through a problem – much less in a busy, distracting group environment. Regardless of the difficulty of the escape room, our puzzles are a particularly good way to hone logical-reasoning skills. Best of all, your team will be forced to adopt a collaborative approach to structural thinking!

So... why team build in an escape room?

• This fun activity promotes teamwork and cooperation
• Flexes your team's lateral thinking muscles
• Allows emerging leaders to rise to the top
• Allows for healthy competition amongst teams
• It’s a super fun way to get your team out of the office!

To learn more about escape rooms as a team building exercise, or to discuss hosting your next team building exercise with Escape This, visit our team building site TeamEscape.com.au