An Innovative Way to Team Build

Team Building. We all know this is something that is essential to being successful within a team-oriented environment. Whether it’s a sports team, a business team, a restaurant staff, or anything else you can imagine, you need to be able to work as a team. There are those games and activities we all have done before to strengthen our ability to work as a team – the pretzel game where you try and untangle from each other, relay races, etc.

Escape rooms – a unique innovative way to team build. There are several different components that make it an excellent way to make your team stronger and collaborate well together.

1. Communication.. there’s no doubt about it. When it comes to teamwork in order to be successful you have to be able to communicate with one another. Imagine a basketball team playing a game without knowing what offense they are in or if they are in a zone or man to man. How would they be successful? They couldn’t. With an escape room, you have to talk to one another to figure anything out. In order to find the next clue, you have to have conversations with the people in your group. The dots would be nearly impossible to connect all on your own.
2. Distribution of tasks.. every team has a leader. Every team has followers. Every person on a team plays to their strengths. Where they might lack, another team member can pick up the slack, and vice versa. When experiencing an escape room this is essential to figuring out all of the clues. This will be done without even recognizing it. People will naturally take on certain roles.