The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

Build trust. Embrace healthy conflict. Drive real results.

For: Intact teams or leadership teams working together regularly
Focus: Building high-performing teams through trust, accountability, and results

Content:
Based on Patrick Lencioni’s best-selling book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, this powerful workshop helps intact teams assess and strengthen their collective behaviors across five key areas:

  1. Trust – Vulnerability-based trust that allows people to be real and human

  2. Conflict – Healthy debate around ideas that leads to better decisions

  3. Commitment – Buy-in to decisions, even when there’s disagreement

  4. Accountability – Holding each other to high standards and agreed behaviors

  5. Results – Focusing on team outcomes over individual or departmental goals

Objectives:

  • Build authentic, vulnerability-based trust among team members

  • Engage in productive conflict that leads to better ideas and faster decisions

  • Improve commitment, clarity, and alignment across the team

  • Strengthen mutual accountability

  • Drive results through focused, unified action

Outcomes:

  • Greater cohesion and communication

  • Reduced politics and blame

  • Higher performance, ownership, and shared wins

  • A team culture rooted in psychological safety and strategic focus

Note: Includes a team assessment, individual profiles, and facilitated debrief sessions (1-2 days recommended, in person or virtual).

The Five Behaviors® Personal Development

For: Individuals or cross-functional groups (no need to be a team)
Focus: Developing collaborative team behaviors at an individual level

Content:
This program is ideal for building a foundation of effective team behavior among individuals who don’t necessarily work together daily. It uses the Five Behaviors framework in combination with personalized insights (using Everything DiSC®) to help participants explore and practice team-oriented behaviors in any role.

Objectives:

  • Increase self-awareness of individual behaviors that build or break team cohesion

  • Strengthen trust-building skills through vulnerability, honesty, and openness

  • Learn how to engage in productive conflict and disagree respectfully

  • Build personal responsibility for commitment and accountability

  • Focus on contributing to collective results, not just personal wins

Outcomes:

  • A shared language and model for collaboration across teams

  • Improved communication and reduced friction in group settings

  • More emotionally intelligent and accountable team members

  • Better performance in cross-functional or matrixed environments

Note: Especially effective for new leaders, new team members, or developing a team-first culture across departments.