The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
" If you get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time."
Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Five Behaviors is the only team development solution that empowers individuals through self-discovery and constructive behavioral modelling to rewrite the traditional rules of teamwork.
Team Development Solutions Unlike Any Other
The Five Behaviors® combines the framework of Patrick Lencioni’s model for teamwork with personalized insights to create powerful, customized and authentic team development solutions that empower individuals to make lasting change.
Powerful, Proven Model
The Five Behaviors is based on New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni’s groundbreaking model for developing cohesive teams through five key behaviors: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results. With more than 3.2 million copies in print, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a cornerstone methodology for teamwork and organizational development.
Personality Insights in Action
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator helps teams achieve greater effectiveness and productivity and understand how individual personalities and preferences contribute to the team’s overall success. The Six Types of Working Genius assessment is the fastest and simplest way to discover your natural gifts and thrive at work. This combination gives a perfect balance of personality and productivity insights.
Human Approach to Team Development
The Five Behaviors works by addressing the full spectrum of essential cohesive team behaviors. The experience acknowledges one’s humanity and enables each team member to recognize and embrace their shared imperfections, ultimately establishing a strong foundation of vulnerability-based trust. From this foundation, team members can channel the power of conflict, commit to shared goals, hold each other accountable, and deliver better results—together.
Transformational Team Learning
The Five Behaviors brings to life the true power of teamwork through a proven, transformational learning experience.
Innovative Assessment
The Five Behaviors experience starts with an assessment that combines computer-adaptive testing and sophisticated algorithms to deliver precise, personalized insights to each team member.
Rich, Personalized Learning Experience
Each team member receives a robust, personalized profile that helps drive understanding of self and others within the framework of the Five Behaviors. The profile comes to life in a customized training experience that engages and educates with impactful activities and powerful discussions that address all essential behaviors for effective teamwork. The experience goes beyond teaching inclusion or conflict management. Teams learn the foundational principles for building a cohesive team and the discipline required to overcome barriers caused by natural tendencies that make effective teamwork so elusive.
Tools for Continued Learning
To ensure lasting change, our follow-up resources help track the team’s progress and reinforce the powerful concepts and common team language introduced in the experience.
The Model
The first and most critical step in a healthy organization is creating a cohesive leadership team that is committed to doing the ongoing work of developing and maintaining a high-performing team and mastering the five behaviors outlined in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team outlines the root causes of politics and dysfunction on the teams where you work, and the keys to overcoming them. Counter to conventional wisdom, the causes of dysfunction are both identifiable and curable. However, they don't die easily. Making a team functional and cohesive requires levels of courage and discipline that many groups cannot seem to muster.
DYSFUNCTION #1: LACK OF TRUST
The fear of being vulnerable prevents team members from building trust with each other.
DYSFUNCTION#2: FEAR OF CONFLICT
The desire to preserve artificial harmony stifles productive ideological conflict within the team.
DYSFUNCTION #3: LACK OF COMMITMENT
The lack of clarity and/or buy-in prevents team members from making decisions they stick to.
DYSFUNCTION #4: AVOIDANCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort prevents team members from holding each other accountable for their behaviors and performance.
DYSFUNCTION #5: INATTENTION TO RESULTS
The pursuit of individual goals and personal status erodes the team's focus on collective success.
Team Development Workshop
This program helps team members learn to work together more efficiently and effectively. This facilitated and interactive workshop begins with an online assessment. Then, the team comes together to debrief, discuss, and create a plan of action for moving forward in newfound alignment and strength. Timeline is 2 half-day sessions or one full day.
Start with the leadership team and get them all working together. Then take the success down through the organization by empowering everyone in the organization with the same learning. Watch your culture shift to one of high engagement, high motivation and super success.
