Begin with the End in Mind, the Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team™ Gives Impetus to Entrepreneurial Team

Program

An entrepreneur leads the team with effort to achieve successful business according to his/her own vision and mission. When facing with the challenges, how can team members stick to each other and overcome the difficulties, thus go further in the marketplace? A.PLUS has executed the Five Behaviors of A Cohesive Team ™ program for the core members of entrepreneurial team in an Internet distribution company. The program has made the CEO and high-level managers to trust each other and lays foundation for the strategies and work in the future.

1. An entrepreneurial company in Internet distribution industry have participated in the program of Five Behaviors of A Cohesive Team facilitated by A.PLUS.

1. Clients’ Need

The client is a new three board listed entrepreneurial company, now it is the key stage of business transformation. To be well placed in the market, the high level managers need to make strategies for the future. Then they will assign the tasks to their subordinates to transform the entire business. Thus, the company need to let the core members to be taken the Five Behaviors of A Cohesive Team to align. The Five Behaviors of A Cohesive Team™ includes:

  • Trust One Another
  • Engage in Constructive Conflict Around Ideas
  • Commit to Decisions
  • Hold One Another Accountable
  • Focus on Achieving Collective Results

 

2. The Five Behaviors of A Cohesive Team includes Trust One Another， Engage in Constructive Conflict Around Ideas)， Commit to Decisions， Hold One Another Accountable， Focus on Achieving Collective Results

2. The Highlights of A Cohesive Team

a. Everyone of the team members have adoted Everything DiSC® Workplace Chinese version. They have gained a whole new view of their own and others’ strengths and blind spots. They have increased their sense of trust to each other after knowing and understanding the behavioral styles.
b. The team members have invested the relationship deeply to build trust with each other, They were opening their heart, sharing childhood experience to know each other well. They were not so strong instead, they showed true self to each other.
c. After building trust with each other, they engaged in productive conflict. They have discussed many strategic topics based on the operation of the company during the program. Finally, they have agreed to each other and made future work schedule.

3. Feedbacks from the Participants

  • The facilitator could have been more sharp
  • This was the first step of ice-breaking, I hope  that I could observe and improve in growth
  • Wonderful, entrepreneurial team could take the program once in every quarter,
  • The entire program have met the expectation
  • Touched
3. The entrepreneurial team have built trust, engaged in productive conflict, and made schedule for the second half of the year.