An annual team building event is a great way to bring your colleagues together for a bit of fun outside of work. Your corporate Christmas party is a wonderful opportunity to treat your co-workers to a fun group activity, where they can utilize valuable skills and develop their transferable and applicable skillset. Avoid the usual work Christmas parties that have been done every year and try a completely new experience that your colleagues will be talking about all year!
Whether your team has been working together for years now or they’re a brand new team, an escape room is a great way to facilitate your staff making new connections. When people work in specific roles for a long time, it is likely they only interact with the same people who are relevant to their role. Playing and escape room is a fantastic way to promote inter-departmental communication and friendships. These new connections can then be carried back into the work place. Collaborating on a common goal outside of work will help to build trust amongst your employees as they get to know each other better.
Escape rooms are a great way to help your team to bond with each other as they create exciting memories together. This will facilitate in boosting the morale amongst your team and providing a sense of togetherness. It is a great way to celebrate your workforce’s hard work throughout the year and reward them for this.
Oftentimes, work social events revolve around particular interests, such as football, karaoke and singing, and drinking. Escape rooms are an excellent choice for everyone as it doesn’t rely on a common interest. Instead, it allows everyone to join together in a new, thrilling experience that will be fun for everyone.
Solving puzzles in escape rooms requires communication between team members. The players must be able to share their thoughts and ideas. This is crucial in a workforce as all members must be able to efficiently and effectively communicate and relay messages between employees and departments.
Escape room puzzles often require some thinking outside the box.Escape Reality team event days can help to get your employees’ creative juices flowing. They will be faced with new situations, where they must work together to solve a new problem, and quickly!
In the workplace, people will naturally gravitate towards certain interpersonal roles based on their job title or professional hierarchy in the office. For example, in the workplace, the manager or CEO will take on the leadership role. However, in an escape room, this could vary greatly as another employee might take charge and lead the team throughout the game. Escape rooms can help people’s personalities, strengths and weaknesses emerge and help to identify natural leaders and problem solvers.
Your team members must work together to solve the puzzles, defeat the challenges and ultimately escape from the room! Nobody can do it alone! Every person will fill a different role and bring something to the team. Even those team members who aren’t actively solving the specific puzzle can still play a vital role by supporting their team members and gathering further clues. Whether the teams escape or lose, they will still feel a sense of comradery and team spirit as they share memories of their new team bonding activity completed together.
Work life can be stressful, and it’s important to give your employees a morale boost to relieve this stress. Escape games are a great opportunity for a fun activity to help relieve stress whilst still bonding with colleagues. They can work together to complete a task in a more carefree environment with insignificant consequences. This will help to motivate them to work together to complete future tasks and receive the same sense of accomplishment.
An Escape room game contains a number of tasks which lead to the ultimate goal – escaping! Players must use a combination of their task and time management skills in order to proceed through the rooms efficiently. An hour may seem like a long time, but once you’re immersed into the room and scenario, the minutes fly by! You must keep one eye on the clock as it ticks away bringing you ever closer to either an escape or being locked in.
An escape game room is a great way to help promote your employees’ decision making skills. They will be faced with on the spot decision making under an intense time pressure. This will help them to make choices in the workplace when faced with tight deadlines.
Escape Reality provides a creative form of alternative entertainment, very different from usual team building exercises.
All of our Escape Reality branches have multiple escape rooms available with a variety of themes and backstories. There’s bound to be something for everyone! If you have some daredevil employees who love a fright, they can play one of our horror themed rooms. We know that some people might not be fans of gore or scary rooms and may prefer one of our more adventure themed rooms, so that they can concentrate on the puzzles instead of being scared!
We can accommodate for a vast array of private events such as corporate events, birthday parties or anniversaries. We will always attempt to cater to any specific requirements you may have, so it’s better to get in touch with your chosen branch via email to discuss your event.
