# Once Upon A Roll > Strengthening culture in the age of AI. We use purposeful play to help high-performing teams reconnect, realign, and redefine how they work together. This file provides information about Once Upon A Roll to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [What a Groundbreaking 1948 Study Reveals About Your Company Culture](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/what-a-groundbreaking-1948-study-reveals-about-your-company-culture): Why nothing changed after the all hands - ["So... do you just play games?" ](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/so-do-you-just-play-games): What actually happens in a purposeful play session, the QUEST Method, and why it works better than a workshop. - [Why Most Team-Building Activities Are Accidentally Exclusive ](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/why-most-team-building-activities-are-accidentally-exclusive): And what you need to ask when looking for inclusive experiences. - [Strengthening Culture in the Age of AI ](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/strengthening-culture-in-the-age-of-ai): (Hint: It Starts with Play) - [Per my last meeting: Can we circle back to having fun?](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/per-my-last-meeting-can-we-circle-back-to-having-fun): Uncovering unwritten office rules, how the CDC cured furlough fatigue through play, and your invite to a weekly workplace escape hatch. - [What Your Team Acts Like When They Think No One's Watching](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/what-your-team-acts-like-when-they-think-no-one-s-watching): Listen to the podcast interview on how HR and leaders can use games to build their culture and teams. - [🎲 D&D is self-care (and trauma-bonding isn't a strategy)](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/d-d-is-self-care-and-trauma-bonding-isn-t-a-strategy): Inside: Why your team hates escape rooms, upcoming live events, and a 1984 gaming trivia drop. - [The Team Culture Roadmap: Does Your Team Need a Quick Reset or a Total Level Up?](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/the-team-culture-roadmap-does-your-team-need-a-quick-reset-or-a-total-level-up) - [Why high-performing teams play more, not less](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/why-high-performing-teams-play-more-not-less): The answer is wired into every mammal on the planet - [Team Building That Doesn't Suck: Why D&D Beats Scavenger Hunts](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/team-building-that-doesnt-suck-why-d-d-beats-scavenger-hunts): We lean on things like regattas, ropes courses, and scavenger hunts because we think 'high-stakes' adrenaline is the only way to forge a bond, but trauma-bonding isn't a strategy. - [What Monopoly, the Oregon Trail, and the Prussian Army Have in Common](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/what-monopoly-the-oregon-trail-and-the-prussian-army-have-in-common): Has anyone actually sat at that table and NOT ended the night arguing about paying rent on Park Place? Here's the part most people don't know: it was designed to be frustrating on purpose. - [Roll for Insight: What a Game Table Tells You About Your Team](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/roll-for-insight-what-a-game-table-tells-you-about-your-team): As everyone's hair is on fire trying to adapt to AI (and vibe-coding on a stack of Mac Minis that maxed out their Best Buy credit card), the most important workplace skills have nothing to do with technology. - [Nature has a warning for adults who stopped playing and it is deeply unsettling](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/nature-has-a-warning-for-adults-who-stopped-playing-and-it-is-deeply-unsettling): Did anyone else's parents tell them that if they sat in front of the TV all day their brain would turn to mush? Turns out there might be something to that, courtesy of one of nature's strangest creatures... - [The Unwritten Rules That Are Killing Your Team Culture](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/the-unwritten-rules-that-are-killing-your-team-culture): What if you could build the perfect team? How would you do that? Google asked itself the same question. They launched Project Aristotle and studied 180 teams to figure out how to engineer the perfect team. - [Culture is built through shared experiences, not a powerpoint](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/culture-is-built-through-shared-experiences-not-a-powerpoint): How do we strengthen the structural fiber of our teams? That's what I was tasked with as I landed at LaGuardia, prepared for the drive out to Long Island to run a game day for a corporate supplier. - [Does work feel siloed? We have a game for that](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/does-work-feel-siloed-we-have-a-game-for-that) - [My time at Dungeon Master University](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/my-time-at-dungeon-master-university) - [Tired of people taking credit for your work? Try this spy game.](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/tired-of-people-taking-credit-for-your-work-try-this-spy-game) - [Law Schools Are Teaching D&D (And It's Actually Brilliant)](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/law-schools-are-teaching-d-d-and-its-actually-brilliant) - [Why Are Entrepreneurs Playing Murder Mystery Grannies?](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/why-are-entrepreneurs-playing-murder-mystery-grannies) - [How to *actually* create unforgettable experiences](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/designing-moments-that-stick) - [Team Training That Sticks](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/team-training-that-sticks) - [Tetris > Trauma](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/tetris-trauma) - [Have you met the grannies playing D&D?](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/have-you-met-the-grannies-playing-d-d) - [The Boss Battle Principle](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/the-boss-battle-principle) - [50,000 Employees Trained Themselves (Voluntarily). Here's How.](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/50-000-employees-trained-themselves-voluntarily-heres-how) - [Team building is trapped in 1994. Here's how we're fixing it.](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/p/team-building-is-trapped-in-1994-heres-how-were-fixing-it) ## Pages - [archive](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/archive) - [bio](https://blog.onceuponaroll.com/bio)