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Escape Room as a Team Outing: New, Unique, and Unforgettable
If you own a small to medium-sized company with employees, there’s a good chance you’d like to organize a special team-building outing to enhance their collaboration. While you could go survival camping, the arrival of the escape room phenomenon in the Netherlands makes visiting an escape room a viable option for team-building activities, offering numerous benefits for the group.
As if You’re at the Workplace
An escape room is quite different from most activities: it primarily engages your brain, while many team-building activities are more physically oriented. In an escape room, everything is tested that is also needed in the workplace:
- Employees need to trust each other in an escape room and communicate openly and honestly, as escaping the room requires teamwork.
- Stress resilience is also tested: you only have one hour to escape, and if someone gets grumpy due to pressure, it disrupts communication, impacting success.
All these qualities are essential for achieving good results and maintaining a pleasant atmosphere at work. In an escape room, everyone’s ‘role’ becomes clear at a glance. There is also an ideal group composition for an escape room. Holding your team outing at an escape room is a positive way to promote team-building, and it also provides a fun game for the participants: as if they are playing a video game.
An escape room is an effective way to encourage team-building because it feels like players are on the workplace solving a problem together. Typically, up to seven people can play in a room simultaneously, but with a larger group, it’s possible to split into two groups, and with two rooms, the groups can even start at the same time. It’s an outing that’s a bit different but definitely effective! How unique do you want it to be?
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