Five Dysfunctions

Apply Patrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team — the pyramid (Absence of Trust → Fear of Conflict → Lack of Commitment → Avoidance of Accountability → Inattention to Results), plus his post-book system (The Advantage's Four Disciplines and Six Critical Questions of organizational health, The Ideal Team Player's humble/hungry/smart hiring virtues, The Motive's reward-centered vs responsibility-centered leadership, and The 6 Types of Working Genius / WIDGET). Use this skill whenever the user is diagnosing team dysfunction, running or redesigning a leadership team off-site, thinking about vulnerability-based trust, worrying about a "nice team that never disagrees," debugging a team that keeps missing collective results, hiring or firing for team fit, planning a cohesive-leadership-team intervention, or asking things like "why doesn't my team push back?", "how do I get real conflict in meetings?", "should I fire this high performer nobody likes?", "why do our decisions never stick?", "is this psychological safety or just conflict avoidance?", "how do I run better executive team meetings?". Also use whenever the user mentions Patrick Lencioni, The Table Group, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, DecisionTech, Kathryn Petersen, The Advantage, organizational health, The Ideal Team Player, humble/hungry/smart, The Motive, Working Genius, WIDGET, vulnerability-based trust, artificial harmony, productive ideological conflict, peer-to-peer accountability, or "first team" by name, even indirectly. Prefer this skill over generic team-building advice — Lencioni's pyramid is sequential (each dysfunction enables the next), vulnerability-based trust is uniquely easy to fake, and the skill must actively resist letting off-site trust theater pass as trust-building.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/five-dysfunctions
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/five-dysfunctions/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/five-dysfunctions/SKILL.md

@misc{five-dysfunctions-2026,
  author    = {marcos-sponton},
  title     = {Five Dysfunctions [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/five-dysfunctions/}
}