The Five Behaviors®: build a cohesive team
Powered by Everything DiSC® and built on Patrick Lencioni’s model from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, The Five Behaviors® turns team dysfunction into trust, healthy conflict, commitment, accountability and results.
- Based on Lencioni’s bestseller
- Everything DiSC® built in
- For intact teams and individuals
Ask about your team
Tell us about the team: how many people, and what isn’t working. We’ll suggest the right path.
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology.
It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage,
both because it is so powerful and so rare.”
Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Five behaviours that make teams work
The model builds from the bottom up: each behaviour depends on the one below it. Without trust, people avoid real debate; without debate, commitment is thin; and so on up to results. Select a level to see what it means.
The team puts collective outcomes ahead of individual status or ego.
Committed team members hold each other to the standards they agreed on.
After real debate, the team commits to clear decisions everyone stands behind.
With trust in place, the team can debate ideas openly and without holding back.
The foundation: people are open with each other and willing to admit mistakes.
Three ways to bring The Five Behaviors® to your organisation
Compare the options side by side. Not sure which fits? Tell us about the team and we’ll suggest one.
For intact teams
Team Development
A real team that works together every day, including its leader.
One team. Everyone on the team takes part. Ideal group size: up to 12 participants.
Each person completes the assessment online. Usually one or two workshop days, or a series of shorter sessions, then a follow-up Progress report a few months later.
A team report with the team’s scores on all five behaviours, each person’s DiSC® style, facilitated sessions and a progress report later on.
About €170 per profile. Facilitation is quoted for each team.
For individuals
Personal Development
People from different teams, new managers and leadership programmes.
Ideally 6 to 30 people, mixed groups welcome.
Each person completes the assessment online. A half-day or one-day session works well.
A personal report on how you show up on each of the five behaviours, with content based on your Everything DiSC® results and what you can do in any team you join.
About €120 per profile. Facilitation is quoted for each group.
Facilitate it yourself
Five Behaviors Certification
HR, L&D and consultants who want to run the programme themselves.
Individual enrolment, learning live online with other practitioners.
Two weeks, about 20 hours, including four live 2-hour virtual sessions and a final exam (80% to pass).
Certificate and licence, your own admin account, the Knowledge Hub and partner prices of up to 25% off.
€1,990 at our partner discprofiles.eu. The facilitation kit is not included: €1,190 if you don’t have it yet.
Best-sellingteamwork model, from Lencioni’s book
DiSC®personality insights built in
2 pathsTeam and Personal Development
Research-validatedassessment, with a published report
What the team gets
01
The team’s own scoresEach person answers the assessment. The team report shows how the team scores on each of the five behaviours.
02
Each person’s DiSC styleEveryone sees their own DiSC® style and how it helps or hinders the team on each behaviour.
03
Concrete team actionsThe team agrees what to change and checks progress later with a follow-up report.
Made for teams that want to do better
Leadership teams
When a management team needs to make faster decisions and actually stand behind them.
New or changed teams
After a merger, reorganisation or new team lead, to build trust faster.
Teams stuck in the same problems
When the same topics come back every meeting, or conflict is avoided.
Good teams that want to be great
A structured way to raise the bar, with a follow-up report to measure progress.
Watch: The Five Behaviors® and Patrick Lencioni
An introduction to the programme, Patrick Lencioni on teamwork and trust, and how Microsoft used it.
Introduction to The Five Behaviors®
Patrick Lencioni on teamwork
Vulnerability-based trust, with Patrick Lencioni
Microsoft success story
Reports, research and success stories
State of TeamsHow teams work today, based on insights from more than 30,000 employees.White paper (PDF) →
Research and validationThe evidence behind the model and the assessment.Research report (PDF) →
Success story: MicrosoftEstablishing the foundation for effective teamwork.Success story (PDF) →
Success story: Cencora (AmerisourceBergen)Keeping a virtual team connected across 1,000 miles.Success story (PDF) →
Run The Five Behaviors® yourself
The Five Behaviors® certification prepares facilitators to run the programme with confidence, whatever a team brings into the room: five online learning modules, four live virtual sessions and a final exam. To run sessions you also need the facilitation kit.
About The Five Behaviors®
What is The Five Behaviors®?
A learning experience built on Patrick Lencioni’s model for cohesive teams, combined with Everything DiSC® insights. It helps individuals and teams build trust, engage in healthy conflict, commit to decisions, hold one another accountable and focus on results.
What’s the difference between Team and Personal Development?
Team Development is for an intact team, usually 5 to 12 people who have worked together for at least six weeks, and produces a combined team report. Personal Development is for anyone, ideally 6 to 30 people with no tenure requirement, and produces an individual profile people can use in any team.
How is it connected to DiSC?
The Everything DiSC® assessment is built into The Five Behaviors®, so participants understand their own and others’ styles as a foundation for the five behaviours.
How is it different from a DiSC workshop?
A DiSC workshop is about individual styles and working with each other. The Five Behaviors® looks at the team as a whole: how well it builds trust, handles conflict, commits, holds itself accountable and focuses on results.
Do I need to be certified to run it?
No. A certified trainer can facilitate it for you. If you want to run it in-house, The Five Behaviors® certification prepares you to do it yourself.
How much does it cost?
It depends on the path and the size of the team. Tell us about your team and we’ll send you a clear proposal.
Ready to build a more cohesive team?
Tell us how many people are on the team and what you want to change.