Why Escape Rooms are Great for Team Building
Team building is crucial to any thriving company, escape rooms are the best team building option out there.
Escape rooms are a great way to build team spirit and bring people together. They require collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills, which are all essential for successful team building. Plus, they’re a fun and exciting activity that everyone can enjoy outside of the office.
Escape rooms are a great way to get people to work together and practice their problem-solving skills away from the pressure of everyday, real life scenarios. Players are given a set amount of time to complete a series of puzzles and tasks, which requires them to work together and use their collective knowledge and individual skills to succeed. This encourages team members to communicate effectively, think creatively and work together to find solutions.
Imagine, being able to highlight and pinpoint teammate or coworker’s strengths and weaknesses in a low pressure and fun environment, rather than in the heat of the moment at work or on the field. Escape Rooms allow this by presenting teams with challenges to solve outside of their normal environments. This creates bonding, teachable moments and is disguised as fun.
Overall, they are a great way to build team spirit and bring people together. They require collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills which are all necessary to working in a team environment. If you’re looking for a fun and effective way to build your team, an escape room is the perfect choice.
Finding the Right Game Master
Finding the right game master
It’s no secret that Escape Room staff are essential to the success of an Escape Room business. The right (or wrong) Game Master can make or break the customer’s overall experience. Ideally, your team should be able to deliver an exciting and captivating experience while remaining friendly, engaging and detail oriented. We’ve put together a few tips to help you find the perfect Game Master.
Ask your staff to recommend someone. They already understand the scope of the job and will be likely to recommend someone that not only fits the bill but fits in with your current team.
Look for event planners. The skills needed to be an event planner are right in line with the skills needed to be a Game Master - personable, detail oriented and great problem solving skills. Bonus, they’ll be great at helping when you take your Escape Room games mobile and do large scale events on location.
Ask your current customers. Word-of-mouth is a powerful tool, especially from people who already love what you’re doing - your current customers.
Post on your social media accounts - again - the people following your accounts likely love what you’re doing and are likely to either be or know the person that fits the escape room niche.
Keep your ears out for the right person, even when you don’t need to hire someone. The right person is hard to find and you don’t want to kick yourself later when you do need someone.
Finding the right Game Master is tough. We would suggest on erring towards a friendly, outgoing person as opposed to a quiet puzzle lover. The customers need someone fluent in hospitality to make the experience flow as best as possible.
How do I start my Escape Room business?
Just start!
How do I start my Escape Room business?
Start somewhere. Start anywhere. Start making momentum. Make a business plan, (here is a great resource) Start a Facebook or Instagram page. Think but don’t over think.
Starting a social media page or writing a business plan forces you to answer some basic questions about your new venture, like your name, your hours, the look and feel of your brand to name a couple.
Just start. It feels good to gain some sort of momentum, “a rolling stone gathers no moss.”
I wrote a business plan & started a social media accounts, now what?
Hopefully those two projects allowed you to see some next steps but also helped you to feel empowered that you started something!
Next determine your minimum viable product (that will make you money). When I started, I thought I needed to open my doors with 3 rooms because that’s what most other ERs had but I couldn’t afford to do that. Instead, I opened my doors with my MVP, one tiny escape room and a hallway that served as a waiting room (hallway picture above). Maybe your MVP is a mobile game that you take to restaurants like The Last Bottle Escape Dinner. Maybe it’s a game you take to schools and set up for end of the year school parties. Maybe its a scavenger hunt for your local area. Find the thing and start planning and designing it.