Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Help your leaders and teams build trust, engage in healthy conflict, commit to decisions, strengthen accountability, and focus on collective results.
Course Focus
A practical corporate workshop that helps teams identify the behaviours that weaken collaboration and replace them with healthier team practices.
- Trust and vulnerability
- Productive conflict
- Clear commitment
- Peer accountability
Why Team Dysfunction Matters
Even talented teams can underperform when trust is weak, conflict is avoided, decisions are unclear, and accountability is missing. This workshop helps teams address these issues directly and constructively.
Build Trust
Create stronger working relationships through openness, honesty, and psychological safety.
Improve Collaboration
Help teams move from artificial harmony to respectful disagreement and better decisions.
Drive Results
Align people around shared goals, clear commitments, and collective accountability.
A Practical Workshop for Stronger Teams
This course helps participants recognize the common dysfunctions that weaken teamwork and practice the conversations, habits, and commitments needed to improve team performance.
- Understand the five common dysfunctions of teams
- Assess current team behaviours and working patterns
- Practice trust-building conversations
- Learn how to engage in productive conflict
- Strengthen commitment, accountability, and shared results
Delivery Format
This 6-hour corporate workshop can be delivered as:
- One full-day workshop
- Two half-day sessions
- Live online delivery
- Onsite corporate delivery
The Five Dysfunctions Covered
Participants explore each dysfunction and learn practical ways to move toward healthier team behaviours.
Absence of Trust
Move from guarded behaviour to openness, vulnerability, and stronger relationships.
Fear of Conflict
Replace artificial harmony with respectful, honest, and productive debate.
Lack of Commitment
Create clarity around decisions, priorities, expectations, and next steps.
Avoidance of Accountability
Help team members hold each other accountable for behaviours, standards, and commitments.
Inattention to Results
Shift focus from individual agendas to collective goals and measurable team outcomes.
Team Action Plan
Translate workshop insights into practical commitments the team can apply immediately.
Designed for Teams That Need Stronger Collaboration
This workshop is ideal for teams and leaders who want to improve trust, communication, accountability, and performance.
Bring Team Effectiveness Training to Your Organization
We can customize this workshop based on your team structure, collaboration challenges, leadership goals, and preferred delivery format.