Do you want your team to have a really strong start this year? Then you should focus on a team-building event first.

Since the rise of escape rooms across Germany and the world, escape games have become one of the most popular team-building measures.

But why is team building in an escape room so effective? And which escape rooms offer special programmes for team-building? You'll find out here in our blog post!

Your team, your escape room

The goal of team-building activities is to, staff collaboration to strengthen, so that the team achieves better results in the future. Mutual Respect, trust, communication and a sense of unity play an important role in ensuring that everyone pulls together. Only when employees know each other well and appreciate their individual skills and strengths can they to better solve common challenges.

An escape room is about achieving a common goal with your fellow players by solving a difficult riddle, uncovering a crime, or perfecting an escape plan.

The team-building event in the escape room transports the employees into fictional worlds, which are sometimes designed very realistically. While the group exposed to a psychological crisis When you're under pressure, team cohesion and smart task delegation are particularly important.

Now, it's up to the individual team members to bring their strengths to bear and take responsibility, so that it doesn't fall on a single person. Most escape rooms are, after all, impossible to solve alone – success is only likely if the group dynamics are right.

How team building works in an escape room

1. Find a provider and check if they special programmes for the escape room team-building event (e.g. with coaching)
   
2. Please provide the text you would like translated. Enquiry for team building or simply book an escape room of your choice
   
3. If the team size exceeds the capacity of the escape room, you can book several escape rooms. Either you split up into two identical rooms (Duel mode) or you play in different rooms at the same time.
   
4. On-site you will receive a Staff briefing and puts together the player teams – ideally, the employees will be mixed up thoroughly.
   
5. After the game, you should take time to process what happened and discuss it amongst yourselves. joint winding down is important for team bonding.

Team building ideas for your escape room

At our location in Wuppertal, you can choose from six rooms. Particularly well-suited for team-building areThe Professor's SecretandThe Mad Laboratoryas these are thematically linked. In the scenarios you must as special agents the international security authority to determine the whereabouts or alias of the inventor W. Kanns-Gut.

In the Verschlusssache Escape Rooms in Düren Do you have to deal with pirates, super-nerds, zombies, or party people, and can you split up however you like?.

In Recklinghausen, we now have three Mining Escape Rooms, which can be played simultaneously and are therefore suitable for teams of up to 18 people. Team building in the mine shaft – That would be something, wouldn't it? 

Pause & Play in Stuttgart offers for the escape room team building Professional coaching as part of the team eventTeam Sprint OneEven small teams of up to 12 people can gain valuable insights into team dynamics and new impetus for future team development.

At TeamEscape Berlin Will the players be accompanied by a CLICK®-certified coach who will analyse role distribution, communication and interaction via camera? After that, there will be a Interactive workshop, ..., where players' experiences are brought together with the coach's observations. That's team building at its finest!

The company Business Elephant specialises in Mobile Escape Rooms specialised, suitable for team building, company parties and recruitment. Here you can choose between three escape room experiences, which can be individually customised on request and take place directly at your company.

At 4WallsEscape, teams of 10 or more people Live moderated online escape rooms to book. That is for remote workers sensible, requiring only an internet connection and a communication tool such as Microsoft Teams to participate. The Team Challenge in Online Escape Room lasts between 90 and 150 minutes.

Team-building in an Escape Room – A valuable experience

Broadly speaking, all live escape games are suitable as team-building activities. You simply need to decide whether you want to manage the team building yourself or if you want to make use of professional coaching.

We've already introduced you to the best escape rooms for teams and groups in our articles <<Escape rooms for 10 peopleandLargest Escape Room NRW>>.