Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions o

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Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team A Paper submitted In Partial fulfillment of the course requirements CLED610 Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary By Adebayo Adeyinka Abstract Overcoming the five dysfunction of a team is a practical book that explains how one can leverage the power of teamwork to gain a sustainable competitive advantage in the cooperate world. It acknowledges that building an effective, cohesive team is extremely hard but not complicated. Lencioni however warns that we must be careful not to mistake a loose group of people reporting to the same manager for a team. According to him, a true team is usually a small number of people that share common goals as well as the rewards and responsibilities for achieving them.1 Thus the team readily sets aside their individual or personal need for the greater good of the group. The book points to the beginning of this process as an establishment of a strong foundation of trust among the members, which can only be achieved through a certain vulnerability with each other. Lencioni believes this level of vulnerability - allows each member of the team the liberty to admit freely their strengths as well as their weaknesses. The book gives examples of trust building exercises such as sharing personal histories and behavior profiles with each other. According to Lencioni, established trust creates the atmosphere for constructive conflicts. During such conflicts members are allowed to disagree passionately and sincerely, as they unreservedly express their criticism and displeasure of issues on decisions policies and colleagues attitude. This is done without necessarily being destructive. While the book acknowledges that some specific temperament types are not comfortable with conflict and would do everything possible to avoid it, Lencioni believes that the leader of the team has a critical
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