Team development for cohesive, high-performing teams

The Five Behaviors^®

Most teams don’t fall short for lack of talent. They fall short because people hold back in meetings, avoid the hard conversations, and walk away with different ideas of what the team decided. The Five Behaviors^® gives your team a clear model and a common language for changing those habits, one behavior at a time.

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Based on Patrick Lencioni’s bestselling book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

A team member making his case in a meeting

Capable teams still get stuck

Imagine you lead a team of eight experienced people. Your weekly meeting starts on time and stays polite, yet decisions you thought were settled come back a month later, deadlines slip without anyone saying why, and two of your best people have quietly started looking elsewhere. Nobody on the team lacks skill. What the team lacks is enough trust to disagree in the room and a shared commitment to the decisions it makes.

A team caught in this cycle pays for it in slower projects, lower engagement, and the departure of people you can’t afford to lose. The Five Behaviors^® shows the team where the problem starts and gives everyone the same plan for working on it.

Each of the five behaviors builds on the one below it

The model works like a pyramid. Trust comes first, and a team that skips a level struggles with every level above it. Select a behavior to see where it sits.

The Five Behaviors model with Trust highlighted

The Five Behaviors^® offers two programs for two different starting points

A team meeting at a table in a bright office

One real team

Team Development

For one intact team. Six weeks or more of working together is recommended before the program starts. Everyone on the team takes the assessment, and the results measure the team as a whole on each of the five behaviors. Each person’s profile also includes their DiSC^® style, so teammates understand how each of them prefers to work.

Symphony 100 runs Team Development as a program of weekly online sessions, so the team practices each behavior at work between sessions.

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Colleagues from different parts of an organization talking together

No intact team needed

Personal Development

For anyone who wants to be a better teammate on any team in the organization. Each person works on their own approach to trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results.

Because no intact team is needed, Personal Development is a good fit for cross-functional groups, new managers, and organizations that want one standard for teamwork across many teams.

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The Five Behaviors^® is a development tool. It isn’t a performance review, and teams get the most from it when everyone knows that from the first session.

What you’ll find in the shop

The Five Behaviors^® hub in the Symphony 100 shop covers both programs in depth, with prices and everything you need to order.

Assessments and profiles

The Team Development and Personal Development assessments, with the profile each participant receives.

Workshops and programs

Programs facilitated by Symphony 100 in live online sessions, from Personal Development workshop packages to Team Development programs quoted for your team.

Facilitation kit

One downloadable kit that covers both programs, for the facilitators who will run The Five Behaviors^® inside your organization.

Certification

The Five Behaviors^® Certification for a named practitioner, with the required facilitation kit included.

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See every program, profile, and kit in one place

Visit The Five Behaviors^® hub in the shop to compare the two programs and order assessments, workshops, and the facilitation kit. If you’d rather talk it through first, book a call with Frank.