Five Behaviors®

Building the trust, accountability, and collaboration teams need to perform at their best.

Strong teams are built intentionally, one conversation and one behavior at a time.

Five Behaviors® combines Patrick Lencioni’s proven model of team effectiveness with the personalized insights of Everything DiSC®. At The Conversations That Matter, we use Five Behaviors to help teams understand how their individual styles influence team dynamics and how trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results come to life in everyday work.

This program focuses on how teams show up together.

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WHAT IS EVERYTHING DiSC® FIVE BEHAVIORS®?

A team-based approach to performance and trust

Five Behaviors® is a research-based team development experience designed to help teams improve how they work together. By combining Everything DiSC® insights with these behaviors, teams gain a deeper understanding of how individual styles influence team effectiveness.

It focuses on five critical behaviors of high-performing teams:
Trust
Building vulnerability-based trust
Conflict
Engaging in healthy, productive debate
Commitment
Making clear decisions and commitments
Accountability
Holding one another responsible
Results
Focusing on collective success
HOW WE USE FIVE BEHAVIORS WITH TEAMS

From awareness to collective action

At TCTM, we use Five Behaviors® to help teams move beyond surface-level collaboration and into real alignment.

Through facilitated experiences, teams learn how to:

  • Build trust through openness and self-awareness

  • Engage in productive conflict without personal tension

  • Clarify expectations and decisions

  • Hold one another accountable respectfully

  • Focus on shared goals and results

The work is practical, reflective, and grounded in real team dynamics, not theory alone.

 

It pairs well with:

  • Leadership Development Programs
  • Manager Essentials (Manager Training)
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Everything DiSC® Workplace or Agile EQ

How the Five Behaviors® works

It’s a facilitated, team-centered process that walks through:

1

Team Assessment

Team members complete the Five Behaviors® assessment.

2

Facilitated Team Experience

We guide the team through interactive discussions, reflection, and application using real team scenarios.

3

Alignment & Action

Teams identify shared commitments and behaviors they will practice moving forward.

When you combine Five Behaviors® with Leadership and team development, you build stronger teams that lead and deliver true results.

Who is Five Behaviors ® for?

Best for intact teams ready to grow together. It is especially powerful for teams that want to strengthen trust and accountability, not just skills.

Five Behaviors® program is ideal for:

What teams will learn

Behaviors that strengthen performance

Using Five Behaviors®, teams gain insight into:

  • How individual communication styles impact trust
  • Why conflict feels uncomfortable — and how to navigate it
  • How to move from discussion to commitment
  • What accountability looks like on their team
  • How to stay focused on results instead of silos

Teams leave with shared language, clearer expectations, and a stronger sense of responsibility to one another.

Because performance depends on how teams work together, Five Behaviors is important

Teams that develop the Five Behaviors often experience:

  • Higher levels of trust

  • More open and productive conversations

  • Clearer decision-making

  • Stronger follow-through

  • Healthier accountability

  • Greater focus on collective results

This work creates alignment at the team level — where performance is most influenced.

5 behaviors pyramid model
A cohesive, team-centered approach

When teams understand each other, everything changes

Participants will discover how they can each influence, empower, and adapt to be more effective as peers, managers, and leaders.

We help you build a cohesive team by first focusing on individual communication styles. Your team members will evolve to trust, collaborate, and lean on each other, and, in turn, effectively build the business together.

Our Everything DiSC® Train-the-Trainer program prepares you to facilitate the open, candid, and strategic conversations that teams need to perform at their highest level. For teams to grow and excel, they require dedicated time together. Team members desire a sense of freedom, creativity, and the willingness to explore ideas together. This all opens the door for rich learning, growth, and development.

The key is creating a tight, singular team approach to team development. We will focus on the team’s expectations at a behavioral level, so each person understands both the rationale plus the emotional reasoning built into human psychology. Essentially, how we innately think and behave is part of the overall experience and foundation for building more effective relationships at work.

Appropriately, at the center of the Everything DiSC® Train-the-Trainer program are the modules: Understanding Self and Others and How to Build Effective Working Relationships.

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Ready to strengthen how your team works together?

We’ll help you design a Five Behaviors® experience that builds trust, clarity, and collective performance

FAQ's

Is Five Behaviors® only for leadership teams?

No. While it’s powerful for leadership teams, Five Behaviors works well with any intact team focused on improving how they work together.

No. Five Behaviors® builds on individual Everything DiSC® insights by applying them at the team level.

Yes. A core focus of Five Behaviors® is helping teams engage in healthy, productive conflict rather than avoiding difficult conversations.

Workshops typically range from a half day to a full day, depending on team needs and goals.

Yes. The program can be delivered virtually, onsite, or in a blended format.

We start with a consultation to understand your team’s dynamics and recommend the best approach.