## 8.1 Assessing Teamwork To be truly effective, a team must overcome several obstacles, as outlined by Patrick Lencioni in his best- selling The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Patrick describes this process as a set of steps, built on top of each other, that allow a group of people to become an effective, mature and high performing team. This assessment provides leaders with an opportunity to explore and overcome the pitfalls that side-track teams. It gives the team members a sense of their unique strengths and identifies areas for improvement in each of the five key fundamentals of developing a cohesive and productive team: trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, and results.