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The Five Behaviors®
Build the trust, candor, commitment, and accountability that shared results depend on.
The Five Behaviors gives people a practical framework for examining how they contribute to teamwork. Russo Leadership offers two distinct facilitated programs: one for an intact team, and one for individuals who work across teams.
Choose by the work you want to strengthen
Are you working on how a specific team functions together, or how individuals contribute to every team they join?
An intact team
Help a team examine its shared patterns, discuss its own assessment results, and agree how it will work together more effectively.
Individuals across teams
Help people understand their teamwork tendencies and practice behaviors they can bring to any team they work with.
One shared model
The model connects the quality of people’s working relationships with the way they debate, decide, follow through, and focus on collective outcomes.
Be willing to ask for help, acknowledge mistakes, and be open about limitations.
Debate ideas openly and constructively so important concerns can be heard.
Reach clarity about decisions and what people are agreeing to do.
Address commitments and behaviors with one another, including when the conversation is uncomfortable.
Keep collective outcomes in view when individual priorities compete for attention.
Team Development · 5–12 participants
People may leave the same meeting with different understandings of what was decided, avoid the discussion that matters, or wait for the leader to address a missed commitment.
Team Development brings the whole team together to examine its own experience of the five behaviors and agree specific changes to how it works.
We confirm the team’s readiness and shared responsibilities, meet separately with the leader, and arrange the assessments. The whole team participates.
Use aggregate survey results, individual profiles, and team maps to explore trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results. Differences in how members experience the team become part of the discussion.
Identify a top priority, establish conflict norms and accountability commitments, and define actions for individuals and the team together.
Format: An afternoon session, team dinner, and the following morning. A single full-day format is also available.
The team dinner creates time to connect after the trust-building work. Dinner and lodging are covered by the client; arrangements are agreed in advance.
Readiness matters. This program is for an established, interdependent team with a leader willing to participate openly. If the team is new or its membership is changing, we can discuss a model introduction and the right timing for the assessment.
Personal Development · 8–24 participants
A person may work across several teams, projects, or departments. Their ability to ask for help, raise a concern, honor a decision, and give useful feedback travels with them.
Personal Development uses individual insight and facilitated practice to help participants understand their own contribution to teamwork. It fits leadership cohorts, new-manager groups, and people working across functions.
Use your individual Five Behaviors profile to reflect on how you approach teamwork, including what feels comfortable and where you may need to stretch.
Work through trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results using discussion, video, and activities. Connect each behavior to situations you encounter at work.
Identify specific actions you can take as a teammate and make individual commitments to carry into your working relationships.
Format: One in-person half-day session. Participants can come from different teams and do not need to know one another.
Planning the work
Choose Team Development when an intact team needs to examine how it works together toward shared results. Choose Personal Development when individuals across teams or a cohort need to strengthen their teamwork practices. The products use different assessments and produce different outputs; Personal Development is not a shorter Team Development program.
A group of 5–12 people who meet regularly, depend on one another, and share responsibility for results. Reporting to the same manager is not enough on its own. We discuss the team’s work and readiness before recommending Team Development.
The assessed Team Development program works best when membership and working relationships are established. If the team is less than six to eight weeks old, is about to change membership, or is going through a merger or reorganization, we discuss timing. A model introduction without the team assessment may be a better starting point.
Yes, including the leader. The leader participates rather than facilitates and meets with us separately before the program. We agree dates that allow the whole team to attend.
Team survey results are anonymous; individual DiSC styles are shared. The program examines the team’s shared work and uses aggregate survey results to support discussion. It is not an evaluation of individual performance.
No. Personal Development provides individual profiles and individual development commitments. It does not produce aggregate team scores, a team map, or a team readout.
Existing Everything DiSC assessment data cannot be carried into the Personal Development assessment. Participants take the Five Behaviors assessment. If someone has already completed Five Behaviors Team Development, we check whether their existing data can be used when arranging access.
Team Development is designed around an afternoon session, team dinner, and the following morning. A single full-day format is also available. Personal Development is an in-person half-day program with approximately 4¼ hours of learning and breaks; allow additional time for the close. We confirm the full schedule in the proposal.
Team Development includes a written summary of the team’s agreed outcomes and a 30-day leader check-in. Where useful, a separately scoped Progress Report session can revisit the team’s experience three to six months later. Personal Development includes a sponsor check-in. Further facilitation or coaching requires its own scope.
The Five Behaviors Personal Development is also available as a self-paced Academy course, with an individual assessment and 12 months of course access.
Start with your shared work
Tell us who you want to bring together, what their work requires, and what you want to be different. We’ll help you choose the program that fits.