In this episode, Amy describes the five dysfunctions of a team as outlined in the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni and provides ways that leaders might address each of these dysfunctions.

What You’ll Learn

* The five common dysfunctions of a team
* What you might do as a team leader to overcome these dysfunctions


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Resources

* The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
* Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone
* The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 8: FourSight with Blair Miller

Weekly Challenge
Download the cheat sheet for this episode below and rate your team on each of these levels. If your team is not at a 4 or 5, create a plan to address the dysfunction within your team.
Transcript
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Transcript for Episode #077: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and How to Overcome Them
Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 77. Today’s episode, I want to talk with you about The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, which is a model designed by Patrick Lencioni. This whole concept of these five dysfunctions of a team I first learned about in reading Patrick Lencioni’s book with the same title: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. By the time I had read the book, I had already been facilitating teams, doing team buildings, team effectiveness exercises for at least a decade. When I read his book, I realized this is the stuff I have been working on with teams but I had not thought of laying it out in this way. He set up this model that just made it so clear to me and I now use this model all the time with my clients. It helps them understand these are the things that we need to do if we want to be more effective as a team. I want to share this with you because if you have a team that you are trying to be creative with, you absolutely have to have these elements as part of your team. If you want to be creative, you have to be effective as a team.
I have put together a one-page cheat sheet of the model that you can download from my website. If you go to www.climerconsulting.com/077 you can download just an image of the model. That is helpful if you want to do that right now and then you can listen along to the podcast or if you want to have a reference sheet later afterwards. Go to www.climerconsulting.