The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

Organizational Health

The Advantage

Lencioni's complete model for organizational health. The single greatest competitive advantage available to any company is being healthy. This framework breaks that down into four practical disciplines.

The four disciplines

  • 1
    Build a Cohesive Leadership Team

    Trust, healthy conflict, commitment, accountability, and results at the leadership level.

  • 2
    Create Clarity

    Six key questions everyone in leadership must answer the same way.

  • 3
    Over-Communicate Clarity

    Say it. Say it again. And then say it again. Repetition is the mother of retention.

  • 4
    Reinforce Clarity

    Embed clarity into hiring, onboarding, performance management, and every human system.

The Five Behaviors pyramid

Team Health Model

The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team

From The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, this pyramid model shows what separates the truly cohesive teams from the rest. Each behavior builds on the one below it.

The five behaviors

  • 1
    Trust

    Vulnerability-based trust. Being genuinely open about mistakes and weaknesses.

  • 2
    Conflict

    Engaging in unfiltered, productive debate around ideas. Not personal, but passionate.

  • 3
    Commitment

    Buy-in around clear decisions, even when not everyone agrees.

  • 4
    Accountability

    Teammates hold each other to shared standards, not just the leader.

  • 5
    Results

    Collective outcomes take precedence over individual status and ego.

The 6 Types of Working Genius

Productivity Model

The 6 Types of Working Genius

A practical productivity tool that helps individuals and teams identify the work that energizes them, and the work that drains them. The result: better meetings, smarter hiring, and clearer execution. Justin is one of only 10 Master Facilitators in North America.

The six types spell WIDGET — a memorable model for how work moves from idea to result.

WWonder

Pondering the possibility of greater potential and opportunity in a given situation.

IInvention

Creating original and novel ideas and solutions to a problem or challenge.

DDiscernment

Intuitively and instinctively evaluating ideas and situations with judgment.

GGalvanizing

Rallying, inspiring, and organizing others to take action around a purpose.

EEnablement

Providing encouragement and assistance for an idea or project.

TTenacity

Pushing projects and tasks to completion to achieve results.

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