The Five Behaviours™ is a powerful tool to help build productive, cohesive teams. With the arrival of the NEW Personal Development profile, The Five Behaviours is more accessible than ever.
Let’s remind ourselves of the benefits of high functioning teams which:
- Make better, faster decisions
- Tap into the skills and opinions of all members
- Avoid wasting time and energy on politics, confusion and destructive conflict
- Avoid wasting time talking about the wrong issues and revisiting the same topics over and over again because of a lack of buy-in
- Create a competitive advantage
- Are more fun to be on!
The Five Behaviours benefits include helping teams to:
- Achieve collective results
- Build trust, humility & respect
- Engage in healthy conflict
- Tap into the skills, ideas & opinions of everyone
- Harness peer-to-peer accountability
Building the foundations of a cohesive team
These are the essential building blocks of The Five Behaviours model.
- Trust lies at the heart of a functioning, cohesive team and can only happen when team members are willing to be completely vulnerable with one another. This includes saying things like “I’m sorry” or “Your idea was better than mine.” A personality assessment can help people gain insight on their peers and develop empathy, two important qualities that allow a team to build trust.
- Conflict is naturally uncomfortable, but productive conflict focused on concepts and ideas is essential for any great team to grow. When teams have a foundation of vulnerability-based trust, conflict simply becomes an attempt to find the best possible solution in the shortest period of time.
- Commitment is clarity around decisions, not consensus. With commitment, teams move forward with complete buy-in from every team member – including those who may initially disagree.
- It’s easy to avoid difficult conversations, but making peers accountable on performance or behaviors that might hurt the team is essential to productivity. By “entering the danger zone” with one another, team members feel trusted, respected, and responsible for getting things done right.
- One of the greatest challenges to team success is the inattention to results. Great teams ensure all members, regardless of their individual responsibilities and areas of expertise, are doing their best to help accomplish team goals.
Validity
The Five Behaviours offers valid and highly reliable tools, which bring Patrick Lencioni’s best-selling book; The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, to life in organisations and delivers tangible results.
Tested by over 3500 team members worldwide, this clever model helps teams to identify the root causes of politics and dysfunction and then overcome them to become a truly cohesive and highly effective team.
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Read how Microsoft used The Five Behaviours to create a culture of teamwork.
Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
Patrick Lencioni
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