What Looks Like Peace… May Be Frozen Tension
- Stéphane AVJ Courtemanche
- 4 days ago
- 1 min read
Some teams proudly say:“We don’t have any conflict here.”But what looks like calm… may be emotional freeze.
Unspoken disagreement.Un exhausted team, emotionally checked out.A culture where silence feels safer than truth.
🎯 Three signs of frozen tension:
🔹 1. Meetings are “efficient”… but too smooth. Everyone agrees — all the time. No friction, no pushback, no challenge.
🔹 2. Energy is low, polite, distant. No open tension… but no momentum either. The team is managing, not growing.
🔹 3. Real conversations happen outside the room. Doubts, conflict, and insights are shared privately.The meeting itself becomes a performance.
💡 That’s not peace.It’s surface-level safety.And it cracks under pressure.
🎯 A courageous leader may have to disrupt false calm.
Not to provoke.But to invite real expression back into the room.
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