EXPERIENCES
Morale Zero

THE INSTITUTION / DIRECTORY 001

Choose your department.

Excellence in systematic demoralization.

DEPARTMENT 01 / OPERATIONSTHE OFFENSE

Create the damage.

DEPARTMENT 02 / RESPONSETHE DEFENSE

Contain the damage.

DEPARTMENT 03 / EXTERNAL OPERATIONS

Corporate Interventions.

The institution is now accepting management teams for controlled exposure to their own management practices.

Examine the experience
THE RESEARCH ARCHIVE / SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS
MORALE ZERO / AN INSTITUTIONAL EXERCISE IN EXCELLENCENO EMPLOYEES WERE ENGAGED.

Morale Zero / Department 03 / Corporate Interventions

Your organization deserves worse.

We are now accepting management teams for a supervised demonstration of how perfectly ordinary decisions destroy morale.

Examine the intervention
Official productOne experience
Allocated time120 minutes
Attendance8–20 leaders
LocationOn-site

Intervention 001 / Leadership team simulation

How to Destroy a Perfectly Good Team.

Two hours of questionable management advice. Surprisingly useful consequences.

Your management team temporarily assumes responsibility for designing the most dysfunctional organization possible. The resulting choices are examined through workplace research, structured discussion and concrete countermeasures.

An unusual corporate experience with a serious learning outcome. Led by Ali Saïd, whose background spans executive business leadership and organizational transformation.

01 / 00–15 MIN

Formal induction.

Receive an exceptionally troubling mandate from the institution.

02 / 15–70 MIN

Engineer the failure.

Compete in teams to design, present and defend recognizable management failures.

03 / 70–100 MIN

Recognize the mechanism.

Connect the absurd scenarios to organizational behavior and familiar workplace patterns.

04 / 100–120 MIN

Authorize the reversal.

Identify two practical changes with clear owners and a date for review.

Official scope of services

Your intervention has been approved in principle.

One repeatable experience, lightly adapted to your context. No organization-wide diagnosis is implied or included.

  • PreparationOne 30-minute sponsor conversation and one company-relevant fictional scenario.
  • DeliveryOne 120-minute in-person experience for 8–20 managers or leaders, facilitated by Ali Saïd.
  • MaterialsScenario cards, participant worksheets and research-informed explanations of the organizational mechanisms discussed.
  • Written recordA two-page Countermeasure Brief recording the two agreed actions, owners and review dates.
  • AftercareOne 30-minute sponsor conversation approximately 30 days after the experience.

Terms of institutional engagement

A controlled demonstration of dysfunction.

Intended audience

Owner-led businesses, executives, managers and leadership teams seeking a memorable company offsite or development experience.

Learning objectives

Recognize counterproductive management practices, understand the mechanisms that make them harmful, and agree on two actions to improve everyday management.

Participant safety

Fictional workplace scenarios are used. Participants are not required to identify, accuse or diagnose colleagues, and no confidential workplace disclosures are collected for the exercise.

Not included

Employee interviews, confidential investigations, workplace assessments, repeated facilitation sessions, substantial custom production or additional facilitators.

External operations / Now receiving inquiries

Management has been informed. Improvement is still possible.

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