Team Effectiveness and Collaboration

The Five Behaviors® Team Development

The Five Behaviors® Team Development helps teams build stronger trust, engage in more productive conflict, commit to shared decisions, hold one another accountable, and focus on collective results.

As the workplace evolves, team dynamics become more complex. Teams may be working in person, remotely, across functions, or under changing business demands. Regardless of where the work happens, teams need the skills and shared language to collaborate effectively, address issues directly, and work toward the outcomes that matter most.

This assessment-based team development course uses The Five Behaviors® framework based on Patrick Lencioni’s model of teamwork: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results. The experience combines the model with personalized assessment insight to help individuals and teams understand how their behaviors, styles, and team dynamics affect collaboration and performance.

Participants leave better prepared to understand the foundational behaviors of a cohesive team, recognize how individual styles contribute to team effectiveness, and apply practical behaviors that support stronger teamwork and better results.

Business Issue This Course Helps Solve

Your Instructor

This course helps organizations address team effectiveness challenges such as:

Low trust affecting communication and team performance
Teams avoiding productive conflict or handling disagreement poorly
Lack of commitment after decisions are made
Weak peer-to-peer accountability
Teams prioritizing individual agendas over collective results
Team members lacking awareness of how their style affects the team
New or changing teams needing a common framework for working together
Leadership teams needing to strengthen trust, commitment, and accountability
Teams needing an assessment-based approach to improve collaboration and results

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for:

Intact teams
Leadership teams
Cross-functional teams
Project teams
Managers and employees working together as a team
Teams experiencing low trust, conflict avoidance, unclear commitment, weak accountability, or limited focus on results
Organizations seeking an assessment-based team effectiveness experience
Teams that need a shared model for collaboration, accountability, and results

Delivery Options

The Five Behaviors® Team Development can be customized and delivered as:

In-person team development workshop
Virtual instructor-led team development session
Five Behaviors Personal Development workshop
Five Behaviors Team Development workshop for intact teams
Leadership team effectiveness session
Cross-functional team development workshop
Team retreat or team reset session
Trust and accountability workshop
Follow-up session connected to conflict management, communication, collaboration, or performance
Module within a broader leadership development course, team effectiveness initiative, or culture development program
Customized experience using either the Personal Development or Team Development assessment
Available in English

Recommended Course Duration

4 to 7 Hours

Participant Outcomes

As a result of this course, participants will be better able to:

Understand the foundational principles for building a cohesive team
Apply the Five Behaviors model: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results
Recognize barriers that make effective teamwork difficult
Increase self-awareness about the impact of individual behavior on the team
Identify interpersonal skills needed to be a more effective team member
Understand how individual styles contribute to overall team success
Interpret team scores on the Five Behaviors model, when using the Team Development assessment
Gain insight into individual personality styles and how those styles affect team dynamics
Strengthen team trust, communication, accountability, and shared results
Create practical commitments for improving team effectiveness after the session

Assessment / Other Details

This course uses one of two Five Behaviors® assessment options. The Personal Development solution helps individuals learn the skills needed to “team” more effectively across different teams. The Team Development solution helps intact teams understand how they work together and where they need to improve.

Each participant completes an assessment and receives customized results that serve as the foundation for the training experience.

The Five Behaviors® framework focuses on Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results and may be combined with Everything DiSC® insight, depending on the selected solution.

Next Steps

Cohesive teams do not happen by chance. They require trust, productive conflict, commitment, accountability, and shared focus on results.

Contact Talent Authority to discuss how The Five Behaviors® Team Development can help your team strengthen collaboration, accountability, and performance.