The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

Review the 5 Behaviours of a Cohesive Team model

  1. Which behavior shows up as the biggest challenge for my team?
  1. How does this behavior manifest itself on my team?

In my organization?

  1. What specific steps could I take to address this on my team?

Trust
How is lack of vulnerability holding this team back? What do you observe?
How is showing vulnerability helping this team? What do you observe?
Building Trust
  1. What can I do to display/demonstrate vulnerability?
  1. What might get in the way and what can I do about it?
  1. How will I know that I’m gaining trust?

Conflict
How does this team fail to engage in productive conflict? What do you observe? How does this hinder the team?
How does engaging in healthy conflict help this team? What do you observe?
Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors in Conflict
What’s it like to be your style in conflict? How are you likely to behave/react?
What pushes you to go from healthy behaviors to unhealthy ones?
What have you learned about how other styles respond to conflict?
Commitment
How does lack of commitment affect this team? What do you observe?
How does ensuring commitment affect this team? What do you observe?
Clarity
How does clarity (or lack of clarity) affect our team?
Provide an example of a time when the team had clarity or lacked clarity.
How do the different leadership and/or conflict styles respond to a lack of clarity?
Buy-in
How effective is this team at gaining buy-in for decisions?
How strongly does this team value achieving consensus?
How do the different leadership and/or conflict styles approach buying-in?
Accountability
In what ways do team members fail to hold one another accountable? What do you observe? How does this hinder the team?
In what ways do team members hold one another accountable? What do you observe? How does this help the team?
• Which behaviors have you seen on your team?
Results
Action Planning Worksheet
Trust
What steps can this team take to build trust?
What will I as an individual do to help the team build trust?
Conflict
What steps can this team take to engage in healthy conflict?
What will I as an individual do to help the team engage in healthy conflict?
Commitment
What steps can this team take to achieve commitment?
What will I as an individual do to help the team achieve either greater clarity or buy-in?
Accountability
What steps can this team take to embrace accountability?
What will I as an individual do to better hold myself and my teammates accountable?
Results
What steps can this team take to focus on collective results?
What will I as an individual do to help the team stay focused on collective results?
Action Planning Worksheet
TOP THREE
Action #1: ______
Steps / By Who? / By When?
Action #2: ______
Steps / By Who? / By When?
Action #3: ______
Steps / By Who? / By When?

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