What is The Five Behaviours Certification?

The Five Behaviours Certification equips HR, L&D, and coaching professionals to deliver Patrick Lencioni’s team development model using Wiley’s validated tools.

Who is The Five Behaviours Certification for?

It is designed for HR leaders, learning and development professionals, team facilitators, and coaches who want to deepen trust, accountability, and collaboration in teams.

How is this different from other team-building certifications?

Wiley’s Five Behaviours Certification is grounded in Patrick Lencioni’s best-selling framework and includes tools for real team transformation, not just one-off workshops. Participants gain access to validated team assessments, expert mentoring, and practical facilitation resources.

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What Is The Five Behaviors^® Certification?

As a Five Behaviors^® Certified Practitioner, you'll have the power to create a culture of teamwork, with high performing teams that elevate the entire organization and drive results. The Five Behaviors^® Practitioner Certification course is a virtual, two-week, learning experience designed for practitioners who want to deepen their level of expertise in The Five Behaviors. The course consists of:

Self-Paced Learning

Five engaging, immediately-applicable self-paced learning modules that you’ll retain access to after the course concludes.

Practice Facilitation Techniques

Receive valuable feedback from your peers in a supportive environment while you practice facilitation techniques to strengthen your skills.

Virtual Classroom

Four live, virtual classroom sessions over two weeks – each week, you will participate in two 120-minute sessions where you can share and learn from the experience of other professionals.

Certification Exam

Take the final Certification Exam to measure your understanding of the key concepts of The Five Behaviors.

Upon successful completion of the exam, participants will earn the credential of The Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner, signaling proven competence in shaping cohesive and high-performing teams—knowledgeable in the language of The Five Behaviors. The program's success is reflected in the feedback; 98% of clients say they will apply the learnings to their work.

Earn Professional Development Credits

Wiley is recognized by ADT, SHRM*, HRCI**, and ICF for offering Professional Development Credits (PDCs) upon certification completion.

*Wiley is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDC) for SHRM-CP^® or SHRM-SCP^® recertification activities.
**This program has been pre-approved for 20 credit hours (HR General) towards aPHR^®, aPHiR^®, PHR^® PHRca^®, SPHR^®, GPHR^®, PHRi, and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute (HRCI^®).

Why Get Certified with The Five Behaviors?

While certification is not a requirement to bring The Five Behaviors to your organization, completing a certification course signifies a proven level of capability and expertise to help ensure you get the most from your Five Behaviors development program to drive your organization’s change initiatives.

The two-week course will provide you and your organization with:

Valuable Credential

A Valuable Credential

Your Five Behaviors Certified
Practitioner credential is backed by nearly 50 years of research-based assessment experience and 200+ years of publishing excellence. In addition, Wiley is a SHRM
Recertification Provider, so you're eligible to earn 20 Personal Development Credits.

Depth of Knowledge

Go beyond the facilitation kits to deepen your foundational knowledge of The Five Behaviors with Wiley's team of Education Specialists. You'll gain expertise in Patrick Lencioni's model for teamwork, your assessments and profile results, facilitation best practices, how to customize the solutions to fit the organization's unique needs and more.

Organizational Impact

As a Five Behaviors Certified Practitioner, you'll be equipped to integrate The Five Behaviors into an organisation's culture and feel confident as you help each learner develop the skills and know-how to work more effectively on any team.

Deepen Your Knowledge and Gain Expertise in The Five Behaviors

Learn How to Customize and Deliver for Maximum Impact

Gain Facilitation Experience in a Supportive Environment

Ongoing Support with Access to Wiley’s Online Training Center

“What makes this certification powerful is that it teaches you how to optimally use the complementary Five Behaviors Team and Personal Development solutions together, to make a profound impact. The structured self-paced learning, coupled with engaging discussions with other practitioners in the live sessions, get the creative juices flowing and prepare you to take a more complete solution to your organization looking to build a culture of teamwork.”

Rick Stamm

A TEAM Approach

“The Five Behaviors Certification course clearly maps out how to implement this solution for your teams, ultimately increasing your confidence and saving you time. I highly recommend investing two short weeks to give yourself the tools needed to get your organization’s teams back on track.”

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Help Teams Rise Together™ as a Certified Practitioner of The Five Behaviors^®

The Five Behaviors^® is an assessment-based learning experience designed to help organizations build trust and shape a culture of teamwork.

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