On this third podcast, I interview Les Pardew from Mystery Escape Room in Utah. Among other things, he shares with us some very interesting information about the research they’ve been doing on team building, in partnership with the Univeristy of Carnegie Mellon in the United States.
“An escape room is a very powerful platform for learning problem solving -because that’s all it is! And it’s not only problem solving alone, but problem solving as a team” – Les Pardew
On this episode, you’ll also discover more about:
- The player experience
- Escape rooms used to study human behaviour
- The influence of leadership style and company culture for problem solving
- How companies are actually hindering innovation and creativity and why escape rooms are the perfect solution to that.
- The new “Downtown Abby” escape game opening soon by Mystery Escape Room.
- Virtual Reality in escape rooms?
- The future of escape rooms for training and developing problem solving skills
- New research in collaboration with the University of Arizona
- Other uses of escape rooms
“The magic of an escape room is that I am not a character. I am playing me, there with my friends, going into an adventure together, where we can touch things, inside an actual environment.” – Les Pardew
A big shout-out to Les Pardew and to all Mystery Escape Room locations in Utah. Thanks for the great conversation!
Listen in here or click play below.
https://soundcloud.com/tbe-podcast/team-building-escape-podcast-3
