6 Online Escape Room Challenges to Motivate your Team

COVID-19 has significantly impacted Ireland over the past year and possibly will continue to disrupt our economy, work life and personal life for months to come. Remote working will be the norm for most of us and our teams for the foreseeable future.

While the lure of working from home is exciting for many workers, its novelty can wear off over time. Deadlines and commitments aren't always enough motivation.

Keeping remote workers engaged and motivated doesn’t have to be complicated. Here at Dynamic Events we are specialists in online team building and below are 6 ways to motivate your workforce whilst they work from home.

6 Online Escape Room Challenges to Motivate your Team:

Escape The Office - A fun, online escape team activity. The Virtual Escape Room style game which uses image recognition and augmented reality. Starting in a ‘locked office’, teams are required to work their way through a series of tasks, which are displayed on interactive games screens, earning points as they go, on a mission to ‘escape’ within the 60 minute time limit. As well as being enjoyable, the challenge encourages team building and group engagement.

Arctic Survival - Survival based virtual escape room game for remote team building. Working in teams and against the clock, players have to crack codes and implement their survival plan in order to get out alive. Using a combination of skills like time management and critical thinking, your team will work against the clock, cracking codes and implementing your survival plan in order to get out alive.

Spy School - Do you fancy yourself as the James Bond or more the Austin Powers of the espionage world? Learn to become the ultimate agent and solve the case in this high-energy, competitive challenge! This engaging and collaborative team activity is designed to put your teamwork, communication and memory to the test. But remember, you'll need your very best disguises too!

There's no time to lose...It’s a race against the clock to earn your training badges and solve the case!

Mission To Mars - The next generation in virtual and online team development for remote teams. The focus here is very much on giving a learning twist to your virtual team building event and supports the idea of looking beyond or going outside your comfort zone to perform as a virtual team.

The basic premise of the game is that different information is shared across the different participants in the team so they must collaborate as best as they can to solve the puzzles in the fastest time with the best accuracy.

Mission to Mars is an exceptional series of activities to build problem solving, decision making and collaboration skills of your virtual teams.

Remote Manor House Murder - A fun, team orientated, online murder mystery style game which uses image recognition and augmented reality. This online Murder Mystery challenge is a problem-solving team building exercise for groups of any size. It involves an assortment of virtual tasks, where teams have to solve puzzles, tackle questions and answer riddles in order to solve who murdered internationally renowned lawyer, Laura Norder.

Participants will work together as a team to collect and examine key pieces of evidence such as witness statements and suspect interviews, using augmented reality and image recognition technology. Evidence will be collected by completing various tasks and challenges throughout the remote based murder mystery!

Codebreaker - The Codebreaker is a virtual team building activity for remote workers. This problem-solving team activity is suitable for groups of any size. It involves an hour-long collection of virtual tasks, where teams have the chance to solve puzzles, tackle questions and answer riddles.

The Codebreaker is an Escape type game with the aim of cracking the code of the computer before the time runs out. You will receive a hint per each riddle solved or task completed. Only by merging all the hints you will be able to crack the computer's code.

As well as being enjoyable, the challenge encourages team building and group engagement.