Team Discovery - The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™
Cohesive teams are the ultimate competitive advantage. They are the source of the most productivity, creativity collaboration and engagement in an organization. Building a team climate that facilitates productive emotional experiences allows the team to achieve greater collaboration and performance.
High-performance teams depend on a shared mission, vision and values to align their personal interests, harness their collective expertise and focus their individual efforts. They establish clear roles and responsibilities - plus a framework for making decisions and resolving conflicts. Most important, they commit to an environment of trust.
Members of high-performance teams:
- Demonstrate a blend of professional expertise and personal credibility
- Hold themselves and each other accountable for the broader impact of their actions
- Are skillful, candid communicators, balancing advocacy with openness to others’ ideas
- Manage conflict constructively and maintain team cohesion
- Trust one another
THE FIVE BEHAVIORS OF A COHESIVE TEAM
Based on the bestselling book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team is a model and development program that guides intact teams through a journey to improve in five areas that are key to productive team dynamics: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability and Results.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Assessment gives team members:
- A sense of their team’s unique strengths and areas of improvement
- An evaluation of the team’s dynamic across the five fundamental behaviors
- A powerful measurement for growth (establish a baseline for the current state)
- A chance to re-assess (after the team learns and practices new skills) to provide valuable feedback on team progress and where more focus must be placed
Our consultants understand what the best teams do differently. We have helped a wide variety of teams achieve increased cohesion, trust, effectiveness and bottom-line results. We will work with you to determine the objectives and scope of a team engagement - and then provide process consulting, group facilitation and/or skill building to deliver the most appropriate outcomes, including:
- Measure the effectiveness of the team
- A team charter that aligns with the organization’s strategy and defines the team's mission, values and goals
- A team culture based on trust and collaboration to ground team members through inevitable changes in scope, deadlines and resources
- A unique decision-making framework for working together effectively
- Individual action plans and/or coaching engagements for increased effectiveness
- Best practices for increased accountability
- Improved communication and collaboration skills