Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team

Build the trust that drives performance.

Based on Patrick Lencioni’s internationally acclaimed model, this programme helps teams confront the behaviours that undermine their effectiveness — and build the trust, accountability, and collective focus that high-performing teams are built on. Delivered as a shared team experience, it creates honest conversations, common language, and a clear path toward cohesive, sustainable performance.

Five Behaviours of a Cohesive Team

Build the trust that drives performance.

Based on Patrick Lencioni’s internationally acclaimed model, this programme helps teams confront the behaviours that undermine their effectiveness — and build the trust, accountability, and collective focus that high-performing teams are built on. Delivered as a shared team experience, it creates honest conversations, common language, and a clear path toward cohesive, sustainable performance.

Team dysfunction is common, costly, and largely invisible from inside the team. Performance consequences, however, are very visible.

  • Poor trust, avoidance of conflict, and lack of accountability drags performance down without anyone naming the root cause
  • Teams that look functional on paper often underperform because the relational dynamics are never addressed directly
  • Leaders inherit team dysfunction and do not have a framework to diagnose it — let alone fix it
  • Without shared language and honest conversation, the same patterns repeat regardless of team changes or restructuring

Team dysfunction is common, costly, and largely invisible from inside the team. Performance consequences, however, are very visible.

  • Poor trust, avoidance of conflict, and lack of accountability drags performance down without anyone naming the root cause
  • Teams that look functional on paper often underperform because the relational dynamics are never addressed directly
  • Leaders inherit team dysfunction and do not have a framework to diagnose it — let alone fix it

  • Without shared language and honest conversation, the same patterns repeat regardless of team changes or restructuring

About This Workshop

Working through Lencioni’s Five Behaviours Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results this team programme uses, individual online team assessment, followed by structured facilitation, group discussion, and practical exercises to build the understanding, honesty, and cohesion that high-performing teams need.

Who Is It For

  • Leadership or management teams who want to work more effectively together

  • Teams that are under pressure, growing rapidly, or navigating significant change

  • Managers who recognise patterns of dysfunction in their team and want a structured way to address them

  • Organisations investing in sustained, team-based performance improvement

Workshop Modules

Behaviour 1

Trust — Building Vulnerability-Based Trust as the Foundation

Understand why trust is the foundation of team performance and how to build it authentically

Behaviour 2

Conflict — Engaging in Productive, Unfiltered Debate

Learn the difference between destructive conflict and the healthy debate that drives better decisions

Behaviour 3

Commitment — Achieving Clarity and Buy-In Around Decisions

Develop genuine commitment to team decisions — not just compliance — and the clarity that follows

Behaviour 4

Accountability — Holding Each Other to High Standards

Build the culture where team members hold each other accountable without relying on the leader

Behaviour 5

Results — Focusing on Collective Outcomes Over Individual Interests

Align the team around shared results and reduce the pull of individual agendas or departmental priorities

What You Will Gain from This Workshop

Team Self-Awareness

Understand the specific behaviours that are supporting and undermining your team’s performance right now

Trust Foundation

Build genuine, vulnerability-based trust that enables honest and productive teamwork

Healthy Conflict

Develop the confidence and skill to engage in open, constructive debate that strengthens relationships

Decision Clarity

Achieve genuine commitment to decisions — and the peer accountability that follows naturally from it

Collective Accountability

Build a team culture where high standards are held by everyone, not just the leader

Shared Focus

Align the team around collective results rather than individual agendas or competing priorities

How It’s Delivered

Duration

Full day

Format

In-house (team experience)

Group Size

Up to 12 participants (recommended)

Delivery method

Fully in-person

Customisation

All programmes can be tailored to your organisation’s context, sector, and specific challenges

Testimonials

“This programme helped our managers lead conversations that actually change performance.”

HR Director, Allegro
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