Team Coaching with the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team with Tina Blunsdon

A coaching podcast with Tina Blunston and Tobias Weghorn. They get practical about team coaching by tackling “bathroom chatter” (the real conversation that happens after the meeting) and using Patrick Lencioni’s five dysfunctions of a team as a starting point. Tina shares how she builds psychological safety in teams with simple exercises, why she asks the most senior person to go first when it’s about vulnerability (and last when it’s about decisions), and how she creates space for constructive conflict in meetings without it turning personal. You’ll also hear how she uses a DiSC assessment to create a shared language for communication and peer accountability.Key Learnings:Use team coaching to stop “bathroom chatter” by building trust first: run a DiSC assessment, then do quick vulnerability-based prompts (e.g., “a childhood challenge that shaped you”) to set up psychological safety in teams.Spark constructive conflict in meetings with structure: set ground rules, use “five whys,” and add simple voting (fist-to-five or 1–99 + “why”) to surface disagreement without making it about the person.Make accountability stick by co-creating peer rules: have the team define what “holding peers accountable” looks like (including early communication), write it down, and get explicit buy-in so team coaching doesn’t slide back after the workshop.Resources:Tina Blunston’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tina-blunsdon-8a9843127/The 5 Dysfunctions Of A Team (The Table Group): https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/teamwork-5-dysfunctions/Find your Coaching Tool: https://metaFox.euTry the metaFox Strengths Discovery: https://strengths-discovery.comConnect with Tobi on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tobiasweghornEpisode Chapters:00:00 Bathroom Chatter And Why Quiet Voices Matter01:00 Framing The Episode: Team Coaching And The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team06:55 DiSC Assessment As A First Step In Team Communication11:00 Building Trust And Psychological Safety In Teams22:00 Active Listening Drill: Headphones, Observation, And Body Language25:40 Healthy Rules For Constructive Conflict In Meetings (Five Whys, Baton)28:00 “Throwing A Grenade”: Facilitating Disagreement With Scaling Votes38:00 Decision-Making: Senior Vulnerable First, Senior Speaks Last40:50 Holding Peers Accountable With Team-Written Rules46:10 Blue, Red, Pause: Do The Work, Then Reflect On Results50:35 Learn Coaching: How To Start With Team Coaching In Real Companies