Stop Playing Office: Why Your Leadership Team is Failing

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Corporate "team-building" can be so bad —how bad can it be?

I once had to talk to a parrot puppet about my feelings!

**StevenArmstrong.ca** **- Leadership Expert, Coach, Consultant, Speaker, Educator**

Reader,

Most corporate "team-building" is an absolute joke.

We've all sat through the agonizing charade: awkward trust falls, forced bowling outings, or expensive steak dinners that change precisely nothing the moment everyone crawls back into their cubicles. It's corporate theater designed to make HR feel productive while the organization slowly rots from the top down.

In my latest piece, I break down why divided leadership stalls an organization dead in its tracks, how "My Department" syndrome destroys enterprise-wide collaboration, and what it actually takes to rebuild your team's engine using Patrick Lencioni's five-layer foundation.

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If your leadership group is caught protecting turf rather than pulling together, let's talk: https://stevenarmstrong.ca/consulting/

As always, remember to be kind to yourself; if you can, be kind to someone else.

Steve

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