An eleven-person executive leadership team — strong individuals who weren't yet operating as one — rebuilt into a genuine first team. Every behaviour up at re-assessment, benchmarked against teams worldwide.
The work
A major Australian industrial organisation operating in the defence sector. Individually excellent leaders who weren't yet working as a single team. On the Five Behaviors diagnostic, trust scored 2.16 out of 5 — the team's lowest result, rated Low on the instrument's scale. The strategy existed; the rhythm and structure to execute it together did not.
Not a workshop — a partnership now into its second year. It opened with a full diagnostic: the Five Behaviors assessment and individual working-style profiles across the leadership team, debriefed in depth. From there, a sequence of facilitated workshops and offsites built the foundations — trust and ways of working on the people side; strategic pillars and a Plan on a Page on the business side. The work cascaded below the executive team, through director-level offsites and senior-managers workshops, and went deeper with individuals, through one-to-one executive coaching across much of the team. Today it runs on a quarterly leadership-team offsite cadence, supported by an operating rhythm, targeted problem-solving sessions, and talent and recruitment support that keep the change embedded between visits.
All five behaviours rose at the re-assessment eighteen months later. Trust climbed from 2.16 to 3.55 — from the team's weakest dimension to a score higher than 84% of teams worldwide. Accountability finished at the 89th percentile, the team's highest global ranking of all five. Of the members surveyed at re-assessment, eight of eight said the team now functions better, and eight of eight said it had become more productive. None disagreed. The partnership continues today.
What changed
| 2.16 → 3.55 | Trust score: Low to the 85th percentile |
| 89th | Accountability percentile, globally |
| 5 / 5 | behaviours improved at re-assessment |
| 8 / 8 | surveyed members confirm the team functions better |
