A high-performing organization needs a healthy leadership team. How can you foster a successful team at the head of your company? It starts with trust, conflict, and commitment from the leadership on down. There are a few critical points you must implement in order to foster a successful leadership-team structure:

• Understand the role of the leadership team
• Require vulnerability-based trust
• Ensure healthy, productive conflict
• Achieve commitment through buy-in and clarity

Patrick Lencioni speaks about each of these steps in depth in his book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. This article will go through ...