The Table Group Team Assessment
The Table Group Team Assessment, created by Patrick Lencioni, is a research-backed team diagnostic built on his widely known model, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. It evaluates a team’s health across five essential behaviors: Trust, Conflict, Commitment, Accountability, and Results.
This assessment examines how a team functions together- providing clear, actionable data about the collective behaviors that drive or derail performance. In short, it measures the heartbeat of your team’s culture.
What is The Table Group Team Assessment?
How does The Table Group Team Assessment work?
The assessment is completed confidentially by team members and produces a detailed team report highlighting strengths and areas for growth across the five behaviors.
It reveals patterns such as:
The level of vulnerability-based trust present on the team
Whether conflict is productive or avoided
How clearly commitments are understood and owned
The degree to which peers hold one another accountable
Whether collective results truly outweigh individual priorities
Because it gathers input from the entire team, leaders gain a shared, data-driven picture of reality. No guesswork. No hallway speculation. Just honest insight into how the team is functioning.
When facilitated well, the results create a powerful platform for candid dialogue, alignment, and behavior change.
What can The Table Group Team Assessment do for you and your team?
The Table Group Team Assessment moves teams from artificial harmony and politeness to performance.
It helps leaders:
Build deeper trust rooted in vulnerability
Normalize healthy conflict instead of avoiding tension
Strengthen clarity and commitment around decisions
Create a culture of peer-to-peer accountability
Refocus the team on collective results
For organizations committed to long-term health, it provides a common language and measurable baseline for growth. Over time, teams that lean into the data often experience stronger alignment, faster decision-making, and greater resilience under pressure.
How can Real Good Ventures help?
We’ve used the Table Group Team Assessment and Five Dysfunctions model for over 20 years. We’ve gained incredible insight about the inner workings of team dynamics and have crafted exercises, reflections, and powerful questions to help teams zero in on behaviors that move the needle on trust and healthy conflict. Whether you take the assessment and do a 2-hour debrief as a team, or opt to dig in more deeply and develop your team over several sessions and coaching with the team leader, the Table Group Team Assessment provides clear, easy to understand, and actionable insights to enhance team cohesion and performance immediately.