Shared Challenge, Shared Insight: Lessons from an Escape Room

An on-site, virtual, or portable experiential workshop for organizational teams

Offered on demand for teams.

Description

Team dynamics often become most visible when teams face challenges together. Shared Challenge, Shared Insight: Lessons from an Escape Room is designed for organizational teams, their leaders, and managers who want practical insight into how their teams communicate, collaborate, and solve problems — and how everyone contributes to team success.

In this experiential, facilitated workshop, participants work together to complete an escape room challenge, followed by a structured debrief that links the experience directly to real workplace situations. Teams identify communication patterns, recognize collaboration strengths and blind spots, and analyze their team dynamics to reflect on how these insights can improve both individual and team performance.

Offered in person, virtually, or at your preferred location, this session combines hands-on problem-solving with guided reflection. By the end of the workshop, participants leave with practical strategies for leveraging strengths and addressing challenges, along with a shared understanding of how their team functions in real situations.

For organizations looking for a team development experience that delivers meaningful insight and practical value, this workshop offers a focused and effective starting point.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course the participant will be able to:

Describe core teamwork behaviours and interactions observed during the escape room activity
Identify team communication patterns and collaboration strengths
Analyze team dynamics to recognize potential areas for growth
Propose strategies for leveraging strengths and addressing challenges in teamwork

Availability

This course is offered on demand for teams. Sessions can be scheduled to suit your organization’s needs.

Duration Options

Activity	3-hour	6-hour
Escape room (50 min)	✓	✓
Self-reflection (10 min)	✓	✓
Workshop on key successes and takeaways (1.5 hr)	✓	✓
Team performance feedback (30 min)	✓	✓
Extra workshop on communication & collaboration (3 hr)	–	✓

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Instructor

Jay Gosselin is a leadership coach, facilitator, speaker and founder of 3C Team Building and Training, a professional development company whose mission is to help teams and workplaces communicate, collaborate and connect more effectively. He is also the co-creator and lead facilitator of Escape Manor for Business team building programs.

Since completing the course work for a Masters in Counselling Psychology in 2016, Jay has been on a mission to share the science of interpersonal trust-building and its benefits in the workplace - both for individual well-being and team performance. People and teams thrive when they feel a deep sense of trust. Interpersonal Leaders create the conditions that help trust flourish.

Jay has helped more than 400 teams and 6,000 professionals develop their Interpersonal Leadership skills since 2016.

What People Are Saying

See what others who have taken the course are saying about their experience and the impact it’s had on their professional growth.

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Kevin, Senior Manager of Leadership Development | Government of Canada

“I’m usually really skeptical about these team building activities. But now that we’ve gone through it, I really feel like it was a valuable experience filled with relevant learning transfer. This was a great learning experience that allowed us to walk away with valuable insights and stronger connections as a team.“

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Meghan Smith, Head of People | Float

“I was apprehensive of this workshop because these types of team building sessions are often ‘meh’, but this was really useful and I took so many notes to take away and implement with the team in our daily work.”

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Katarina Pintar, Executive Director, Health Care Programs and Policy Directorate | Health Canada

“This was such a great workshop. I had so many team members talk to me after our session and tell me how surprised they were with how much they enjoyed the experience and took something away from it. Having worked with the 3C team in a previous organization, I knew they were great. I’m so happy to see others on my new team felt the same way.”