The Five Behaviors® – Team development

Team development is a discipline and one of the most recognized models for cultivating this discipline is The Five Behaviors of a cohesive team. The theory was developed by Patrick Lencioni who, with his work on The Five Dysfunctions of a Team more than 20 years ago, turned the world’s focus on team development and team performance and almost put teamwork on formula.

Today, collaboration and team development is widely recognized in organizations and companies as an area of focus that is crucial to performance – as an organization. Why cooking as team building?

The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team®

This team development course is designed to create a high performance culture in management and employee teams. As a tool, the method is based on work with the Everything DiSC® personality type tools, but can easily be used without the personality type profiles as a stand-alone development program. However, if you combine the two team development programs, you have a really powerful tool for understanding and developing your collaboration.

Briefly about The Five Behaviors ®

Basically, the model is divided as a triangle based on five steps.

Trust is the foundation of healthy teamwork. This is where emotional factors such as vulnerability, the courage to show fallibility and the courage to reach out for help are established. Psychological safety in a team is planted and developed as a start here.

Conflict – it may seem taboo, but conflict is an absolute necessity for team development. And with step 1, “trust”, established, conflict can be actively used to develop the team. Conflict can be about objective issues such as tasks, methods, skills etc. but also more emotional and subjective factors such as roles, chemistry, pride etc. Conflict should be used constructively to highlight and work with these clashes towards new ideas and better working methods.

Commitment is the mutual commitment to each other and to the mission. This occurs when the team culture is characterized by trust and the feeling of being seen and heard. Everyone is allowed to contribute and everyone feels co-ownership for choices and opt-outs in decision-making processes.

Accountability When commitment is present, the willingness to hold each other accountable to agreements and ground rules will emerge. Mutual accountability is crucial to working together towards the goal. A game plan with rules and roles creates understanding and overview. This makes it clearer for everyone when you deviate from the goal process – and easier to rectify quickly.

Results When the bottom four steps are lived out, you will see the results come. It’s an integrated behavior that requires a climate and culture geared towards goal achievement and that The Five Behaviors principles are followed and lived – every day.

Put Workshop and Teambuilding together for an active training day

We can put together a full course day with both a team development workshop combined with an active team building exercise. Here we will create a common thread from the learning points you get in the workshop to the practical behavior you exhibit in the team building exercise.

Suitable team building concepts that we can customize for workshops include Chain Reaction or Team Spirit. But also the very popular Money Talks has exercises that really bring out some basic behavioral patterns and personal preferences.

We tailor your training day to the situation and reality you find yourself in as a team and group of colleagues.