![]() ![]() How would it work remotely? Give me some examples of specific puzzles that people would solve in remote settings that would be fun and that were fun and are fun and engaging for remote teams. But for everything that we do offline and online, they are engineered in a way to kind of trick people into team building. It can range from, you know, something very, very small all the way to everyone needing to touch these glyphs on the wall at the same time, and this grand reveal happens. And when I say solve puzzles, I don’t mean doing an analog Jigsaw on the corner. And so there’s like patterns that you need to find in the form of whatever appropriate clues. You have to figure out what you need to figure out and you can’t do it by yourself. But at its core, whether you’re in a room that has, you know, a ton of hidden electronics that feels like a Victorian Manor or a futuristic office or everything in the middle, the core general principle is that you don’t know what you have to do. So tell me, if I was inside your remote experience? What would it look like?Īh, well, there’s a ton of different stories and shapes and sizes. It was a huge hit, everyone in the world needed it. At that time in lockdown, and we still do this great delta this day, using the general principles that we had found, kind of delivering this within person kind of puzzle challenge, escape room experiences. And April, just one month later, we rolled out our first virtual team building experience for remote audiences. And so we rolled out, you know, the global lockdowns really started to happen in March of 2020. But because we design experiences kind of is our business, we very quickly made a pivot to virtual. Yeah, and that hit us and everyone on our field, both escape rooms and in person team building, devastating hard as you might imagine. So then we develop more kind of b2b content, more team building stuff, we develop portable team building solutions, we’d go to meetings and off sites and all this, then the pandemic happens. ![]() And it’s balanced in a number different ways. And we, I come from video games that come from software like this would be a fun thing to do with your friends, but is a really, really powerful team building tool to kind of force people to work as a team on something fun. for team building and b2b audiences, we, you know, made it something fun. And almost immediately, we saw a great deal of unexpected traction. And you have to work together to find clues, solve puzzles, overcome an objective using your brains and teamwork. And for those of you who do not know, increasingly most people know but escape rooms, you are usually in an enclosed space with your team. So as you say, I’m the founder and co-founder and CEO of puzzle break, which is actually the first American Escape Room Company. Tell me a little bit more about how you got to the point of helping others with team building remote work, and generally how you built puzzle breaks? What’s your story? What’s your journey? But what we found, both for us at puzzle break, and for all of the folks that we help, remote work is working for a lot of people, not everyone everywhere, but a lot more than we thought it was.Įxcellent. Maybe the biggest, single takeaway that we eventually got, and it took a minute, is that remote work just works in a way that I don’t think anyone really expected, we all suspected. Right off the bat, we learned a lot of lessons, both for ourselves and for the people that we serve. What did you learn, Nate, from the transition during the pandemic, to hybrid work, remote work? What was the most important thing that you learned during this time? And today, we’ll be talking with Nate Martin, the CEO of Puzzle Break, about how they make good decisions on remote work and hybrid work during the pandemic, as well as how they support others in their pursuit of team building in the hybrid remote context. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Wise Decision Maker Show, where we help you make the wisest and most profitable decisions. You are welcome to register for the free Wise Decision Maker Course.The book Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage is available here.You can learn more about Puzzle Break at.Podcast: “Interview with Nate Martin, CEO at Puzzle Break” Video: “Interview with Nate Martin, CEO at Puzzle Break” ![]()
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