The Five Behaviors® of a Cohesive Team™
Turn team dynamics into collective performance
A team can contain highly capable people and still underperform.
When trust is low, important issues remain unspoken. When conflict is avoided, commitment weakens. When accountability is left entirely to the leader, collective results suffer.
The Five Behaviors® provides an evidence-based framework for understanding what is holding the team back and what it needs to do differently.
Leaders Lounge is an accredited Five Behaviors® facilitator, delivering the assessment and facilitated development across Australia, New Zealand and the APAC region.
The Five Behaviors can help when a team:
- is missing targets or struggling to deliver collective results
- avoids difficult but necessary conversations
- experiences unresolved tension or unproductive conflict
- revisits decisions because genuine commitment was never achieved
- operates in silos rather than as one team
- relies on the leader to address every performance concern
- has low trust, engagement or psychological safety
- is navigating significant change, growth or disruption
The Five Behaviors model
The process can include:
Development is tailored to the team’s current challenges, priorities and operating environment.
- administration of the team assessment
- personalised participant and team insights
- analysis of the team’s strengths and performance barriers
- bespoke facilitated development
- structured conversations around the five behaviours
- practical team agreements
- a focused team development plan
- options for follow-up measurement and progress review
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The co-branded Five Behaviors® brochure covering the model, the assessment and how the experience is delivered.
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A sample Five Behaviors® Team Development profile showing the insights your team receives.
The experience helps teams:
The Five Behaviors is best suited to intact teams whose members work together regularly and share responsibility for results.
- identify the behavioural causes of underperformance
- establish a common language for discussing team dynamics
- build greater trust and openness
- engage in healthier, more productive conflict
- create clearer decisions and stronger commitment
- strengthen peer-to-peer accountability
- maintain focus on shared performance outcomes
Diagnostics are the beginning—not the outcome.
- 01
Diagnosis
Establish a clear baseline and identify the patterns that matter.
- 02
Bespoke development
Design focused learning around the insights and performance priorities identified.
- 03
Action
Define a practical behavioural experiment and measurable outcomes.
- 04
Application
Practise the behaviour in real leadership and team situations.
- 05
Review
Gather feedback, assess evidence of change and determine the next priority.
Following the diagnostic, participants continue their growth through Leaders Lounge’s Leading with Base Membership.
This continued support helps leaders maintain momentum, deepen their capability and embed new behaviours over time.
Membership provides access to:
- monthly leadership masterclasses
- member-exclusive pricing on our development programs
- options for ongoing executive coaching