the five behaviors of a cohesive team
Increase Team Cohesiveness, Maximize Team Performance

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The Single Most Untapped Competitive Advantage is Teamwork
It's no secret that effective teamwork is imperative to the success of your organization. And the truth is, when teams are underperforming it can usually be traced back to the relationships between team members.
The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, Powered by DiSC® process has a simple goal: To create a team experience that helps team members understand how to increase team cohesiveness. Based off Patrick Lencioni’s best-selling book, The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Assessment enables individuals and teams to get results while simultaneously creating a collaborative, more enjoyable work environment.
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Assessment
Provides Feedback Based on Five Areas of Team Performance
Build an Environment of Trust
Master Conflict & Nurture Healthy Debate
Increase Ownership and Commitment
Hold Team Members Accountable
Achieve Collective Results

What is a Cohesive Team?
A cohesive team is a group of people who are aligned on their business goals, share a set of common values and have a strong sense of teamwork. Team cohesiveness is built on a foundation of clear goals and a shared vision, good teamwork is essential to building a cohesive team.
Cohesive teams have high levels of trust and commitment among members. These teams are able to work together to accomplish their goals because they all have the same end goal in mind.
Communication and Cohesive Teams
Cohesive teams are able to work toward common goals because they communicate regularly and work on things as a team. Communication is key in any type of team, but it is especially important in cohesive teams because members know what everyone else is doing and can be held accountable for their actions.
Trust and Cohesive Teams
A cohesive team also has high levels of trust and commitment among members. These teams are able to work together to accomplish their goals because they all have the same end goal in mind.
To sum up, what makes a cohesive team or even a cohesive organization is clear goals, a shared vision, solid communication, and a foundation of trust.

Conflict, Accountability, and Team Cohesion
When teams struggle to work together, everyone's focus is lost. Accountability and conflict are two broad topics that are common causes of team problems.
If a member of your team is not held accountable for his or her actions, work will not get done. Similarly, if all members of the team are constantly fighting with one another, the team's productivity and morale will be significantly lowered.
Lencioni's model helps teams to identify the toxic team behaviors that can lead to reduced accountability and increase negative conflict among team members. And, The Five Behaviors Assessment gives teams the insight they need to successfully build cohesive organizations that hold one another accountable while maximizing team performance.
A productive, high-functioning team...
Individual team members will learn about their own personality style and the styles of their team members—based on the Everything DiSC® model—and how their style contributes to the team’s overall success.
Leverage the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ Facilitation Kit or experience our Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ Workshop to help your people, teams, and organizations achieve new levels of effective collaboration and teamwork.
The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
Facilitation Kit
The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ Facilitation Kit includes everything you need to energize team building in your organization:
- Facilitators Outline for 7 modules that can be adapted for a 1-3 day program experience.
- Modules include an Introduction to set the foundation for the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ experience, fully scripted modules addressing each of The Five Behaviors® areas, and an Action Planning module to put the principles of The Five Behaviors® into action.
- Over 40 minutes of video
- Participant handouts, takeaway cards, and activities
The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Workshop
Experience the Workshop
This multi-day workshop helps teams understand how they score on the key components of The Five Behaviors® model: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results.
Individual team members will learn about their own personality style and the styles of their team members—based on the Everything DiSC® model—and how their style contributes to the team’s overall success.