How Public-Sector Leaders Can Build Aligned, Collaborative Teams

In public service, even high-performing teams can stall when trust, communication, and alignment break down. And the cost is significant. According to Gallup, low engagement in a government agency of 10,000 employees can result in up to $66 million annually in lost productivity and turnover.

So How Do You Move From Silos to Synergy?

Start by helping your team clarify roles, expectations, and how they want to work together. That’s where a team alignment lab can come in — a strengths-based, interactive session developed to help teams reset, realign, and re-engage around shared outcomes.

Such a facilitated lab helps teams:

• Identify how individual strengths and styles contribute to collective success
• Surface collaboration blockers that hinder performance
• Co-create shared agreements on how to work together more effectively

This isn’t just a team-building exercise — it’s a performance accelerator. When teams leave with clear agreements, stronger communication, and joint accountability, they work better together and serve more effectively.

Here’s Where to Begin

Ask your team, “What do we need from each other to be more effective?” Then listen. Use those insights to shape your team’s shared commitments.

Aligned teams aren’t made of individual superstars — they’re built on clarity, trust, and collaboration. And remember — it all starts with you.

Carolyn Mozell is passionate about leadership and its transformative impact on individuals, teams, and organizations. As the Founder of Leaders Who Connect and Inspire LLC, she empowers nonprofit and government leaders to break down silos, unify teams, and achieve shared goals through impactful training programs and immersive retreats that enhance communication and emotional intelligence skills.

Carolyn has served in some of the highest levels of local government leadership across both the legislative and executive branches, as well as in roles as a nonprofit COO and entrepreneur, making her uniquely qualified to support leaders and teams at all levels, in navigating challenges with clarity, cohesion, and a strong sense of purpose.

Carolyn holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and is a certified DISC and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner. Outside of work, she enjoys crafting, being a wife and proud pet mom to her adopted cat, Eva.

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