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**FOR USE IN VIRTUAL & FACE-TO-FACE TRAINING SESSIONS** In this fun and challenging tabletop training activity teams are locked in a room (in theory!). The doors are chained shut and there are just 60 minutes to escape! Can teams work together under time pressure to crack the code and unlock the doors?!
This Northgate training activity comes with a five-year licence for repeat use with up to 24 participants per training session within the licence-holding organisation. Please see our ten-team version for use with larger groups. Also includes access to the Northgate Trainerhub (see below for details).
12-24 (in 4 teams of 3-6 per team)
1 hour + debrief
Not required
£495
In stock
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(normally next working day)
£15
(1-2 working days)
£29
(1-5 working days)
£39
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To taste freedom, teams must discover the vital lock combination that releases the door. The lock combination is made up of a number of digits. Each team must find ONE of those digits so that when used together in the right order they unlock the chains.
Teams find the crucial digits by solving 8 problems. BUT - they are not all straightforward - it’s very easy to go wrong if you are not organised and paying full attention.
To ensure they solve the problems correctly, teams need to work with each other rather than competing. Wrong answers incur time penalties. Two such penalties, for example, reduce the time available from the original 60 minutes to just 50 minutes. It’s a race against time - but more haste often means less speed!
A correct solution to a problem earns teams a letter of the alphabet (although only the FIRST team with the right answer gets the letter). There are eight letters available which, when put in order with other letters teams already have at the start, spell out who locked them in the room. Teams need to know who locked them in before they can escape.
Teams’ objectives are: find the combination, discover who locked them in and build a tower that meets certain criteria or, in the virtual version, instead of building a tower, teams must solve The Courtyard Problem.
It’s very straightforward to run a session.
Also included in hard copy pack for classroom use:
This activity is supplied as a hard copy pack for face-to-face classroom use and as a set of digital files for virtual classroom use (the digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub).
Benefits of the online Northgate Trainerhub include:
They did ‘Belbin’ before lunch so 'The Escape Room' enabled them to use their team roles. It reinforced the need to plan and read everything. They understood the link to real life where people don’t talk to each other and work in silos. All in all, a great exercise - it was the highlight of the course.
Neil Porter, Training Specialist, Supervisory Development, BAPCO, Bahrain
We’ve already facilitated a handful of sessions in Cmed with the aim to promote one of our guiding principles: working as one big team. Each session was a success, 'The Escape Room' activity allowing us to promote the ‘one team’ message within our organization in an effective and fun way. It’s great to see how teams progress from competing to collaborating as the activity unfolds. The participants (and trainer) leave the room energised and ready to take on the world. Great outcomes! Thanks for this inspiring activity. I recommend it without hesitation.
Raluca Lupu, Training Specialist, Cmed Ltd
I bought 'The Escape Room' game and it is brilliant! It’s pretty straight forward and everything participants need is in their brief. Did they read the brief properly? Of course not!! They did have fun and they did learn valuable lessons. Many thanks and I will certainly be back to buy more games from you in the future.
Matthew Hotten, People & Organisational Development Manager, Geberit Sales Ltd
'The Escape Room' is brilliant, typically it takes 20-30 minutes for the teams to realise they have to work together and then seeing how fast they can then pull things together is fantastic to see, it really energised the room and set up a great day.
Rob Chilcott, Learning & Development Manager, Claims Consortium Group
I have used 'The Escape Room' activity a number of times with both smaller and larger teams and it has worked brilliantly each time. The teams have all loved it, it was enjoyable to facilitate and had some real beneficial learning - especially around the topic of collaboration. I would highly recommend it for any team events where you're wanting teams to learn together more effectively.
Nazareen Johnson, Head of Learning & Development, Pets At Home
'The Escape Room' highlights learning around communication and attention to detail. I've run it 4 or 5 times now with great success. It's challenging and fun! Great work Northgate - keep it up!
Carl Dearden, Education Development Practitioner, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
I would highly recommend 'The Escape Room'. We used it as part of a team build and the participants were very engaged as they wanted to escape so badly! The activity highlighted some really interesting areas for development around communication and team work which opened up some fantastic discussions within the group. We will certainly use the activity again when we get the chance!
Oliver Page, Operations Manager, Ignite Training
'The Escape Room' is a great activity for breaking the ice, observing candidate interactions and how they interpret narrative, while also focusing on time management skills.
Charlotte Jury, Resourcing Consultant, Future Careers, AWE
The Escape Room was great fun and a complete success. The Facilitator and delegates really enjoyed it.
Liz Prescott, Procurement Assistant, Puma Energy UK Ltd
We used 'The Escape Room – 10 Team' version to support this quarter’s L&D theme - Problem Solving and Decision Making. The delegate feedback was so positive that people who hadn’t attended asked if we could run another session this quarter. We really enjoyed the session and it was a great activity. We will definitely look at using Northgate activities in the future.
Geraldine Clarke, Learning and Development Advisor, RHP
I delivered 'The Escape Room' virtually and it went down a storm!
Gary Shewan, Learning & Development Consultant, Legal & General
