TEAM DEVELOPMENT

The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team

The Five Behaviours® of a Cohesive Team programme is based on New York Times bestselling author Patrick Lencioni's model for developing cohesive teams.

The programme operates by working through Five Key behaviours: Trust; Conflict; Commitment; Accountability; and Results. With more than 3.2 million copies in print, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a world-leading methodology for teamwork and organisational development. 

This is a three-day virtual or in person programme designed for existing teams of between 3 and 18 people.  The programme can be completed in one block or over a period of months.

The Five Behaviours: the team behaviour solution.

The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team programme combines the framework of Patrick Lencioni's model for teamwork with personalised insights to create a powerful, customised, and authentic team development solutions that empower individuals to make lasting change. 

Many clients come to us for our expertise in The Five Behaviours programme.  Perhaps you have also read the global best seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and been inspired to bring this methodology into your business? 

  • Personality Insights in Action
    The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team programme combines this powerful team model with personalised insights, revealing through personality assessments like Everything DiSC, to help individuals understand themselves and others on their team. The result is an impactful team development solution.  This is not just learning in the training room – we ensure that team members turn insights into action, backed by accountabilities, to ensure, tangible, lasting change. 

  • Innovative Assessment 
    Your Five Behaviours experience starts with an assessment that combines computer-adaptive testing and sophisticated algorithms to deliver precise, personalised insight insights to each team member. 

  • Rich, personalised learning experience  
    Every Five Behaviours workshop we run is different.  This is because we have a personalised, data-based approach.  

    Each team member will receive a robust, personalised profile that helps drive understanding of self and others within the framework of The Five Behaviours. The profile comes to life in a customised training experience that engages and educates with impactful activities and powerful discussions that address all essential behaviours for effective teamwork.

    The experience goes beyond teaching the theory of 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. 

Interested?

The first step is to get in touch with us and we will book a short call to talk through what your team needs and find out if this programme is suitable for you.

The Five Behaviours FAQs

Frequently asked questions about The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team programme. If you have any further questions then please do contact us.

  • A New York Times business bestseller and 3.2 million copies sold – the book has been a global sensation. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni is translated into the powerful data-backed, interactive, media-rich learning programme, The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team. Patrick Lencioni helped create this course and appears in videos throughout.

    We have delivered the Five Behaviours to hundreds of participants, and we can testify to the biggest attribute of the Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team programme – it works.

    The model is simple. Translating it into practice is not easy so just giving your team a copy of the book will not do it. For this reason, we take 3 highly interactive workshop days to facilitate teams through the full process.

    We guarantee your team will be transformed at the end.

    And you don’t just have to take our word for it. You will have a data backed report giving a detailed assessment of team health and so will measure the impact on team cohesiveness as a KPI.

  • It is important to do the Five Behaviours Programme at the right time for your team and your organisation.

    Most of your team need to have been together for at least 3 months and not about to go through a period of very significant change to be suitable for the programme.

    Is the answer “yes” to at least 3 of the questions below? If so, your team will benefit from the Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team programme.

    • Are there communication issues between different ‘types’ of people in your team?

    • Does your team struggle to trust each other and collaborate?

    • Do people put prioritise their personal targets over collaboration?

    • Are there clashes between different departments?

    • Do people in your team avoid having difficult conversations?

    • Are your team meetings dull?

    • Are some of your high performers costly in terms of their team and human impact?

    • Do silos naturally form within your business?

    • Is HR tied up in resolving interpersonal issues?

    • Do all roads lead to you as leader?

    • Do you feel overburdened with the needs of the team and not able to focus on the strategic work of leadership?

    We guarantee you will see tangible positive results.

  • Book in a call with Rachel and we can talk through what your team needs and find out if this programme is suitable for you.

  • We understand that you might be cautious to commit your team to a three day process without more details about how the team is functioning and how it will benefit from the programme.

    If so, you can start with the ‘Team Health Report’, a 40 page analysis of the different behaviours relevant to each of the Five Layers of the process, combined with individual personality profiling. This will give a detailed overview of your team’s strengths and weaknesses as well as tips to overcome these.

    This is a rich source of data and information and you may choose to stop there.

    We debrief the report with you so you can decide if you want to improve your scores with The Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team programme or to wait until another time.

  • You will have a team with strong coherence, not dependent solely on the leader. One that has no politics, that trusts itself, that is resilient, and that has a constant reliable focus on results. A team that is more fun to be part of: one that has lively discussions; is open about issues; has disagreements and resolves them.