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Unlocking Team Excellence: The Wisdom of Collaboration and Accountability

Discover the power of teamwork through the lens of building a strong team based on Patrick Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions of a Team." From creating trust to mastering conflict and achieving exceptional results, this guide emphasizes the importance of accountability and shared objectives in fostering a high-performing team. Learn practical strategies to overcome challenges and enhance collaboration in your team for sustainable success.

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Unlocking Team Excellence: The Wisdom of Collaboration and Accountability

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  1. The Wisdom of Teams Why Building a Strong Team Matters Built on Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni

  2. Teamwork is . . . “the one sustainable competitive advantage that has largely been untapped.” Lencioni

  3. A Team Is . . . • A small group of talented people • Who create a climate of trust • That enables them to . . . • Master conflict • In pursuit of common objectives • Holding one another accountable • To achieve exceptional results

  4. Teamwork is . . . • Often . . . • Extremely. . . • But . . .

  5. Element One Identify Your Team

  6. The Formula

  7. Element Two Create a Climate of Trust

  8. Trust Is . . . . . . all about vulnerability

  9. Vulnerability is hard to achieve because . . . • We have few . . . • The price is . . .

  10. A Place to Start • Stories – listen and learn • Profiles – share and understand

  11. Element Three Mastering Conflict

  12. Conflict Is . . . • Inevitable • Uncomfortable • Necessary • Healthy or Unhealthy

  13. A Conflict Continuum

  14. Constructive Conflict Is . . . Passionate, unfiltered debate around issues of importance to the team

  15. Constructive Conflict Requires A willingness to look for the “second right answer” “If a man is in too big a hurry to give up an error, he is liable to give up some truth with it, and in accepting the arguments of the other man he is sure to get some errors with it. Honest argument is merely a process of mutually picking the beams and motes out of each other’s eyes so both can see more clearly.” Wilbur Wright

  16. Master Conflict By . . . • Examining your own heart • Identifying conflict norms • Mining for conflict

  17. Element Four In Pursuit of Common Objectives

  18. Not . . . Consensus

  19. But . . . Commitment

  20. Commitment Requires . . . • Clarity about . . . • Clarity about . . . • Clarity which must then . . .

  21. Organizational Silos

  22. A Necessary Part of the Whole

  23. Element Five Embracing Accountability

  24. Accountability Is . . . The willingness of team members to remind one another when they are not living up to the performance standards of the group.

  25. Achieve Accountability By . . . • A willingness to “enter the danger” • Enhancing peer-to-peer accountability • Ensuring transparency

  26. ElementSix Achieve Exceptional Results

  27. Why It’s Difficult • Self-interest • Self-preservation • Ambiguity • Distractions

  28. Create a . . . Scoreboard

  29. Remember “To be of championship caliber, a crew must have total confidence in each other, able to drive with abandon, confident that no man will get the full weight of the pull.” George YoemanPocock

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