Create a stronger first impression through immersive experiences
Does your organisation have structured onboarding in place for new hires? If you do, does it truly represent your company and its core values? Is it geared towards simply relaying information, or does it inspire employees and help form those all-important early connections?
Remember, you only get one chance to make a first impression, and for a hire’s first day on the job, you want them to feel energised, focused, and ready to hit the ground running.
Challenger Escapes works with forward-thinking HR teams to rethink their onboarding strategies. We build bespoke Escape Room experiences that replace orientation slides with narrative, grey-matter-igniting puzzles and team interaction – giving your new employees a first day to remember...
Introduce company culture in a way that sticks
It’s critical for a new employee to understand the values, tone and expectations of your business – but reading a mission statement isn’t the same as feeling what that actually means.
A custom Escape Room can bring brand messages to life; weaving your values into a storyline, shaping challenges around a work culture, and giving new hires the chance to experience how your organisation moves and thinks; a practical way to reinforce what matters – and give people a chance to engage early.
Turn team-building into something of value
Our onboarding experiences are designed to break the ice through problem-solving and shared achievement. In an hour-long game, new hires can work together to solve puzzles, manage time and collaborate – learning how to rely on one another, ask questions and share ideas. For teams spread across departments or locations, it’s a fast track to forging company-wide connections.
At one of our onboarding projects for a global consultancy, 450 interns took part in a bespoke tabletop escape challenge designed around the company’s Adventure Awaits platform. Participants left with a clear understanding of the business and an average event score of 9.4/10 – the highest-rated activity of the programme. That experience is now being rolled out across offices throughout Europe.
Meanwhile, at Pictet Asset Management’s annual internal conference, we partnered with Story Events to create a 60-minute Escape Room for 450 employees. The game was carefully designed to bring Pictet’s 200-year history and brand identity to life – blending story, symbols and language into each puzzle. From engraved coasters featuring historic logos to custom-built tech hidden inside the game, every element helped reinforce key messages in a way that felt active and engaging.
“It was unbelievable seeing the level of excitement and enthusiasm shown from the participants in the final activity of the day, the level of detail of building our story into the activity was truly remarkable.”
Pictet Asset Management employee
Replace static sessions with lasting memories
Onboarding shouldn’t feel like reading a list of rules or completing a compliance task. When the process starts with an immersive experience, people remember what they learned – and how they felt doing it. That emotional anchor helps retention, improves morale, and makes your team feel valued from the get-go.
Escape Room onboarding also scales easily. We can design table-top puzzle games for small in-office teams or full-room builds for international campuses. Each version is built from the ground up – shaped by your goals, message and brand.
Ready to rethink onboarding?
We work with HR and learning teams to design custom onboarding experiences that educate, engage and excite – in locations all across the world.
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