The Escape Room Challenge
Our Escape Room Challenge is a digital, high-energy, experiential learning activity that mirrors the pace and pressure of modern working life. Through dynamic game play and behavioural insight, participants tackle a mix of business related tasks. Unlike working alone in silos, the experience emphasises the power of collective problem-solving – helping participants to uncover strengths, leverage diverse thinking, and build trust through shared challenge.
The format also creates a safe, supportive environment where participants can experiment, make mistakes, and learn without consequence. It naturally encourages networking, connection, and enjoyment, giving colleagues the space to interact in ways that seldom happen in typical work settings. Whether delivered in-person or online, the challenge builds confidence, strengthens relationships, and creates lasting behavioural insight through a fun yet purposeful experience.
How our Escape Room Challenge works…
Participants have to beat the clock and recover a critical contract from a secure safe within 60 minutes. The challenge requires clear communication, calm decision-making, coordination, and effective time management – all under pressure.
Our Escape Room Challenge can be delivered in-person or virtually. In the virtual version, one team-member shares their screen while others use QR codes to access puzzles and clues on their smartphones, enabling task-splitting, coordination, and efficient information sharing – reflecting the realities of high-functioning remote teams.
In the in-person version, teams gather around a single laptop, creating a lively, collaborative atmosphere that strengthens interpersonal communication and group problem-solving. Working closely together allows participants to discover hidden talents – from natural leaders to calm thinkers under pressure – deepening respect and understanding across a team.
Even though participants are setup into competing teams, they are energised by the friendly competitiveness of the experience, striving to complete the challenge faster and more effectively than their peers.
Grounded in Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence principles, the Escape Room Challenge helps participants understand how emotions shape behaviour, decision-making, and teamwork under pressure. It highlights the importance of trust, empathy, and clarity in moments where time is limited and expectations are high.
The Escape Room Challenge also explores leadership behaviours, client expectations in high-stress moments, and the significance of strong first impressions, and consistent professional presence. The experience facilitates a safe place to explore and practice ideas – where participants can reflect openly on what happened, why it happened, and how they can improve.
The result is an energising, insightful learning experience that offers deep understanding of how individuals perform, react, and collaborate when the pressure is on.
A great solution for organisations…
1) Looking to explore and develop time management, collaboration and problem-solving
2) Wanting a digital solution that works in-person or virtually
3) Seeking a short team-building activity, or to bring a practical element to a workshop.
The Escape Room Challenge can be delivered by our expert facilitators or we can provide full training for your -n-house team to run the experience internally.
The flexible solution that achieves a number of learning outcomes…
Understand how pressure affects thinking, communication, and teamwork
Understand how pressure affects thinking, communication, and teamwork – and how collaboration outperforms working alone. Participants experience first-hand how shared ownership, healthy debate, and collective problem-solving drive better outcomes than siloed decision-making.
Better manage stress while staying focused and composed, improve prioritisation and time-management skills, and communicate more clearly under pressure
Better manage stress while staying focused and composed, improve prioritisation and time-management skills, and communicate more clearly under pressure. Participants also build stronger relationships, discover new strengths within their teams, and gain confidence in how they show up professionally.
Receive actionable insights on what they did well, where they can improve, and how they can perform more effectively as a team
Receive actionable insights on what they did well, where they can improve, and how they can perform more effectively as a team. These reflections ensure learning is practical, relevant, and immediately transferable to the workplace.