The Five Behaviors®
A Leadership Program for Leaders at Any Level
What if there was a way to MEASURE if a team…
Trusts one another?
Engages in healthy conflict around ideas?
Commits to decisions?
Holds one another accountable?
Focuses on achieving collective results?
Based on the work of Patrick Lencioni’s international best-seller The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Five Behaviors® program helps teams apply The Five Behaviors® model of Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results to drive team effectiveness and productivity.
The program uses Everything DiSC, a tool that helps build effective team communication and relationships, to help participants understand their individual DiSC® style and discover how each style brings value to the team.
HRD will not only explore dynamics within a team, but how to apply these same behaviors and best practices to the teams they lead.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES
Establish Emotional Grounding & Psychological Safety
Participants will:
- Build vulnerability-based trust through structured, facilitated dialogue
- Increase transparency around working styles, motivations, and pressure behaviors
- Strengthen interpersonal confidence and reduce unproductive friction
- Create emotional safety that enables healthy conflict and honest debate
- Develop a shared understanding of “what we can count on from each other”
RESULTING IN: Stronger relational equity, less avoidance, more candor.
Create a Clear Team Contract for Success
Participants will:
- Define shared expectations around communication, accountability, and decision-making
- Align on team norms and behavioral standards
- Clarify what “winning as a team” looks like
- Establish commitments tied directly to business priorities
- Identify non-negotiables and guardrails that protect performance
RESULTING IN: Reduced ambiguity. Increased ownership. Fewer hidden assumptions.
Strengthen Constructive Conflict & Productive Debate
Participants will:
- Learn how to engage in healthy disagreement without damaging trust
- Replace passive avoidance with structured, issue-focused dialogue
- Identify conflict triggers and build strategies to manage them
- Increase speed and quality of decisions through open discussion
RESULTING IN: Better decisions, fewer hallway conversations, stronger alignment.
Increase Accountability & Execution Discipline
Participants will:
- Clarify role expectations and performance commitments
Build peer-to-peer accountability (not just leader-to-team)
- Identify behaviors that undermine collective results
- Align metrics and milestones to team goals
- Develop a structured follow-through process
RESULTING IN: Less finger-pointing. More shared ownership. Stronger follow-through.
Develop a Sustainable Team Development Plan
Participants will:
- Assess current team effectiveness using the 5 Behaviors framework
- Identify strengths, gaps, and priority development areas
- Build a practical, time-bound action plan
- Establish check-in rhythms to reinforce growth
- Define measurable indicators of cohesion and performance improvement
RESULTING IN: Long-term behavioral change — not just a one-day workshop.
Exploring leadership development opportunities for your organization?
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Our Cultural Readiness Assessment helps uncover whether your environment supports real growth—or if there are unseen barriers holding leaders back. Use it as a starting point to spark the right conversations, identify gaps, and build a leadership strategy that sticks.
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