How Team Building Helps Small Teams

by Denny F. My Opinion

Escape rooms are very fun and are ideal for groups, including families and friends. While a lot of people make these escape rooms in their homes using a wide array of different themes, some companies have large facilities where they create professional escape rooms that are incredibly challenging and require entire teams to work together to escape these rooms, competing against other teams.

 

 So, if escape room games are something you might be interested in, the first thing you need is a team. The second thing you need is to complete some team building activities, like the ones at Arcadia Adventures, so that you have the best possible team entering these challenges.

 

Ways that Team Building Exercises Help You Win

 

Putting Your Strengths at the Forefront

 Any good team-building exercise will definitely align your team based on your strengths. For instance, the person best at solving puzzles will be in charge of that sort of game, should it arise. The person who’s best at keeping the team together will be named the leader. Every team member will have a role to play, much like we see on any sort of team. Everyone plays their part, and overall you end up with a lot of team unity. Your team will be ideally positioned to perform well in any sort of escape room situation.

 

More Unity and Cohesion

 People playing on escape room teams can definitely take something away from sporting teams. Look at how sporting teams are set up. Look at the hockey teams that play in the pros, and see that their messages are all about team unity and cohesion. Everyone has to be on the same page. Well, there are a variety of team building activities in which you can participate in order to really improve your team strategies and your team unity. Being a team that’s ready to play as an actual team and meet real-time challenges allows you to handle any situation much better and make your way out of the room a lot faster.

 

Handling Pressure Better

While everything in an escape room is fun and games, there’s still a thick atmosphere of pressure. The ambiance and aesthetics are set in such a way that people start to feel that pressure mounting, and they work feverishly to solve the puzzles to make their way out of the room. The thing about pressure, however, is that it can collapse a team. People can start arguing and doing their own thing instead of working together. Two people can start working on the same problem, though in opposite directions, and they end up making things stretch out much longer because they’re working against each other and not with each other. Team building exercises can help you start to conquer these hurdles and stay working as a unified force.

 

Trust Helps Things Go Smoothly

 We’ve seen this countless times: Teams are in a room and feel that pressure mounting. The person in charge of the puzzle can’t figure out the puzzle. Other team members start to get agitated and may question their team member’s position. The next thing you know, everyone’s in a panic and trying to switch positions and fighting at cross purposes in order to solve the puzzle to progress in the game. This is usually the team that loses and fails to escape the room, though this lesson isn’t learned well by the next team to go in. The fact is that our natural inclination as people is to want to take charge in a solo effort to solve the problem. You panic, you rush, and you think, “I can do it!” Though this is hurting the entire team, which is why team-building exercises can really help you out here and keep your team from falling into these traps.

 

 If you’re a fan of escape room games, then it would serve you very well to create a set team and to train as a team, completing a few team-building exercises, so that you know how to stay a team. Most teams go in as a team, though play as individuals, and end up losing. Some exercises can help your team be different.

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Created on Oct 19th 2020 20:13. Viewed 290 times.

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