PDT Global’s Inclusion Escape Room Experience
PDT Global’s Inclusion Escape Room Experience
PDT Global’s Inclusion Escape Room Experience
By Nic Girvan
August 05, 2020
Summary
Well it all began with a company away day, which as a means to help the company understand the potential of digital learning, I created an escape room activity, where participants would experience stats, facts and digital learning interactions themselves whilst escaping the room.
Within moments of the last group's completion, the wider potential of this experience was mooted and the idea of an inclusion based escape room was born.
The escape room experience is around 2 hours long with the escape room element just over half an hour.
Having the escape room experience is a game changer when it comes to inclusion awareness training.
We get to discover what it felt like to be the softly spoken individual that everyone kept interrupting, we hear about how frustrating the reflective thinker found it when they wanted to read through the instructions in full, and we learn about why the groups - especially those of diverse ethnicities - kept deferring to the confident white male to lead. Hearing those unique insights from a shared experience brings to life all of the text book learning from the escape room assets.
Having skilled facilitators connect the learning resources with real experiences means that participants aren't talking about diversity because it ticks a HR box, they are questioning what inclusion really means for thembecause let's be totally honest here, diversity is bigger than a handful of protected characteristics.
Our escape room experiences are quickly becoming the top selling solution for clients all around the world.
I guess we can safely say that our inclusion escape room is unlocking potential not only for our clients, but also for PDT Global moving forward.
Underpinning her role as the Director of Learning at PDT Global, Nic Girvan has nearly 20 years' experience of working in Learning and Organisational Development, designing and delivering learning programmes both inside the classroom and out of it.
This driven focus has resulted in a number of unusual learning solutions, including behavioural nudges and even a virtual escape room to draw out inclusive behaviours.
Reference
Girvan, N. (2020, August 05). PDT Global's Inclusion Escape Room Experience. Retrieved August 16, 2020, from https://www.ludogogy.co.uk/article/pdt-globals-inclusion-escape-room-experience/