Team Building Escape Rooms: The Ultimate Engagement Activity
Discover why virtual escape rooms are the perfect choice for your next team building event and how you can use them take your team’s collaboration to the next level.
Looking for a fun, engaging, NO PREP, team building activity? Look no further than virtual escape rooms! These interactive and immersive experiences are designed to strengthen your team’s bond and enhance their problem-solving abilities.
The benefits of using virtual escape rooms for team building.
Foster Collaboration and Communication.
One of the key benefits of using virtual escape rooms for team building is that they foster collaboration and communication among team members. In order to successfully solve the puzzles and escape the virtual room, team members must work together, share information, and communicate effectively.
This not only strengthens the bond between team members but also improves their ability to work together on future projects and tasks. Virtual escape rooms provide a fun and interactive way for teams to practice and improve their collaboration and communication skills, leading to more effective teamwork in the classroom or the workplace.
Develop Problem-Solving Skills.
Virtual escape rooms are a great way to develop problem-solving skills within your team. These immersive experiences require participants to think critically, analyze information, and come up with creative solutions in order to solve the puzzles and escape the room. By engaging in this type of activity, team members can enhance their problem-solving abilities and learn to approach challenges from different perspectives.
Enhance Team Bonding and Trust.
Virtual escape rooms provide a unique opportunity for team bonding and trust-building. As participants work together to solve puzzles and escape the room, they must rely on each other’s strengths and communicate effectively. This collaborative experience fosters a sense of unity and camaraderie among team members, strengthening their bond and creating a positive team dynamic.
Encourage Creativity and Critical Thinking.
Virtual escape rooms are not only fun and exciting, but they also encourage creativity and critical thinking among team members. In order to solve the puzzles and escape the room, participants must think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions. This challenges their problem-solving skills and pushes them to think creatively.
Adaptability and Resilience Training.
Virtual escape rooms provide an excellent opportunity for teams to develop adaptability and resilience skills. In these rooms, participants are often faced with unexpected challenges and obstacles that require them to quickly adapt their strategies and find alternative solutions. This helps team members build their ability to think on their feet and adjust their approach in the face of changing circumstances.
How to make any virtual escape room into an engaging team building activity.
1. Choose an escape room for your group.
While any escape room at virtualescaperooms.org can be turned into a team building activity the more challenging escape rooms are perfect for groups working together.
Also note that a challenging experience can vary from team to team based on their experience with escape rooms and puzzles. The PDF included with each escape room has an answer key and explanations for each lock so as the game master you can provide hints and clues as needed to make it fun for everyone.
Team building escape room ideas for ages 13+.
Team building escape room ideas for ages 8-12.
2. Use our Random Group Generator to break your group up into teams.
Use the random group generator for team building escape rooms or to create groups to complete escape rooms together. You can create as many groups as you need based on the number of participants. Your group’s size depends on your participants and devices available but a group size of 4 or smaller is recommended in order for all participants to be engaged and take an active role in the activity.
How it works:
- Delete the example names and enter the names of the people you want to include in the groups, separated by commas.
- Enter the number of groups you want to create.
- Click the “Generate Groups” button. The generator will randomly sort the people into the specified number of groups.
The groups will be displayed on the screen.
Use these groups to break your participants up into teams.
Note: If you want to generate new groups, simply enter a new list of people and/or a different number of groups and click the “Sort into Groups” button again.
3. Have teams pick a name and secret agent ID.
What’s more fun than getting your own team name and personal secret agent ID? Teams can use the team name generator and secret agent name generator to become official virtual escape teams!
This step is completely optional of course. Decide what works best for your group.
Other team name generators:
4. Begin the escape room!
When you download an escape room at virtualescaperooms.org you will receive a PDF that includes a getting started guide along with FAQs, tips for participants and a link to the escape room. You can share this link through email or posting to a shared site or by go “old school” and write the short URL where everyone can see.
The amount of time it will take depends a lot on how familiar your participants are with virtual escape rooms and the content but the recommended time frame is 40-60 minutes.
Set a timer! (Optional but fun)
Setting a time limit with a visual countdown brings a very real “escape room” feel to the experience. If you would like to set a time limit for your participants you can use our the virtual escape room timer. As the timer counts down players can keep track of how much time they have left to solve the puzzles and escape the virtual room.
5. Celebrate the escape
Each escape room has a digital badge at the conclusion of the activity. Participants can download their badge and keep it digitally to showcase their achievement.
Printable “We Escaped” signs are also included in the PDF that can be used to snap pictures of the teams after they successfully completed their mission.
You may want to have another escape room available as an option for your participants to complete as a “bonus mission” if they finish much quicker than the other groups. You can purchase another, easier, escape room or grab one of our free escape rooms to use as a bonus mission.
Plan your team building experience today!
Virtual escape rooms are a great way to engage your team in a fun and interactive team building activity. With the help of our tools and digital badges, your team, class or party will be motivated to work together to solve puzzles and escape as a group. Virtual escape rooms are a cost-effective and safe way to build camaraderie and problem-solving skills among your team, making them an ideal choice for remote or hybrid teams. So why not give it a try and see how much fun your team can have with team building escape rooms!
Check out the escape rooms featured here or head to our shop and pick the perfect escape room for your group. With an ever growing library of themes to choose from there is sure to be something that fits your needs.
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