The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ Archives

The conference room. The classroom. The living room. No matter where you look, you may notice poor communications. That can include a lack of communications, poorly crafted communications that don’t take the audience into account, and communications that are far too one-way. It’s frustrating. Poor communications from the top of an organization can be more…

Want to create a great team on your own? Good luck! Just kidding. It’s not impossible for one ethical, well-intended, authentic person acting alone to help turn around a team. How? To create a great team, first you have to be a great teammate. Developing a truly strong team that trusts and respects each other,…

How to recognize your top team to improve workplace culture Every member of the leadership team is an expert. They know their lines of business. They hire and develop their work teams. They inspire their people to greater and greater personal and professional accomplishments. And they fail, time and time again. Why is the leadership…

A solid performance management process leads to improved results and happier employees, just like the employees pictured here celebrating a win.

For any organization to achieve its stated goals, a clear performance management process is vital. However, it’s a process that’s rarely understood, and it’s often applied in a way that fails to produce its intended results — the high level of employee performance that is so important to an organization’s success. In fact, a survey…

Accountability in the workplace is one of the pieces of the teamwork puzzle that ultimately improves performance — puzzle pieces ready to be put together.

Let’s talk about the 4th level of the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ — accountability in the workplace. To recap your team’s progress to this point: Your team has become more cohesive and is making great strides in developing trust. They are engaging in constructive conflict and debate focused on key issues and eliminating…

Making team decisions that involve the group and lead to excellent results can be tough, but the woman pictured, pointing to some ideas and showing her colleague what she thinks, understands why decision making is so crucial to success.

Making team decisions with buy-in from every team member (even if they disagreed initially) is difficult in the best of times — and impossible in a team that lacks trust. If you’ve reached the third level of the the pyramid of The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™, your team has the beginnings of a foundation…

We’re often taught that conflict at work means opposing others, and opposition leads to resentments, rivalries, and unpleasant consequences. That might be true if conflict is carried out badly, gets personal, or is based on petty office politics — motives matter. Carried out in the right way, in a discussion surrounding ideas, engaging in a…

We’ve all heard that trust in the workplace is critical for any organization to succeed, but we don’t always understand the reasons that it’s so important, nor do we fully understand the consequences that result when trust is lacking. Let’s first look at what, exactly, trust in the workplace entails — we’re talking about more…

In my world of organizational development, there’s nothing more exciting than seeing a well-respected organization with deep roots in their community undergo a significant evolution. That’s exactly what’s happening at the San Diego Humane Society (SDHS), as this 138-year-old pillar of the San Diego community takes over the animal services contracts for six nearby cities…

Changing organizational culture can seem like a battle, like a trudge up an enormous hill with seemingly no end, especially when you’re not sure where to begin. Most HR folks who are trying to figure exactly how to change company culture in a meaningful, lasting way, struggle to come up with a clear method that…

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FOSTER PRODUCTIVE CONFLICT: When conflict occurs, confront and deal with the issue before moving to another subject

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When a team articulates behaviors that are destructive to the team performance, individual team members are much more likely to call out unproductive behaviors.

Using The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team with the King County Office of Risk Management Services to increase employee engagement scores by 33% in one year.