Belbin Team Roles Productive Teams Workshop
Belbin Team Roles Productive Teams Workshop
Belbin Team Roles Productive Teams Workshop
Questions, Wrap Up
Belbin Team Roles
He demonstrated that with a careful balance of technical skills and the optimal
behavior patterns, we can select and develop teams with a predictably higher
degree of success.
What is a Team Role?
Action- People-
Thinking
oriented oriented
Roles
Roles Roles
Monitor Completer
Evaluator Resource
Finisher Investigator
The Nine Team Roles
Team Role Contribution Allowable Weakness
Sober, strategic and discerning. Sees Lacks drive and ability to inspire
Monitor Evaluator ME all options and judges accurately. others. Can be overly critical.
Does NOT
mean you need
nine people on
the team!
Manageable roles
What I can do if needed
Least Preferred roles
What I wish someone else would do
High Performance Teams & Team Roles
10
Factors Determining Individual
Behavior in a Team
External
Values and
Can my Team Roles motivations
influences
Change??
Experience
Yes. They can and they
might …as a result of
these factors.
BEHAVIOR
Team Roles Key Concepts –
Individual
Individual Reports
Analysis of your
Team Role Composition
Example Report
The overall rank order on the bottom line is the weighted addition of the Self-Perception
and the total of the Observers’ input. The observer feedback is weighted more heavily
than the self-assessment.
Team Role Overview
Example Report
Natural or
preferred roles
Manageable
roles
Least preferred
roles
Generally, you want to play to your preferred roles whenever possible. Pick the one
best suited to the setting, set of tasks or other people you are with.
Sometimes a role outside your top 3 is the one best suited to the situation; think of
this as “flexing or stretching”, especially if the role has a lower score.
Try to let others fill your weakest roles.
Comparing Self &
Observer Perceptions
This
This report
report isis based
based on
on
your
your Self-Perception
Self-Perception plus
plus 55
Coherence is the alignment of
Example Report
Observer
Observer Assessment
Assessment
self-perception and observers’
perceptions of what you do and
are good at.
It is important because it is
correlated with being self-aware
and effectively working with
others (playing to your true
strengths). Perfect alignment is
impossible, but check for large
gaps. Most people have some
“disconnects” between the two.
Differences of 40 or more
Your Team Role Preferences
Example Report
Are these
weaknesses
allowable ?
Maximum score
= 2 x number
of observers
Plant Shaper
INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS
Predicted Actual
A typical Order of Order of
example of Finish Finish
Belbin’s ability
to predict the 1 1
order of finish of 2 3
teams in the
Henley 3 2
Management
Simulations. 4 4
5 5
Too many Plant Roles present – Too many Shaper Roles present –
all brainstorming, no action CONFLICT & !!***#%!!/
!$!***#%!#$!/
Team Roles Key Concepts – Team
o Some roles will be more or less important at a given time or for certain tasks
facing the team. Who plays each role may also evolve & change over time.
Team Role Mapping Exercise
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n
Denis
Beth
J ohn
Susa
Mike
Tim
Raj
PL 1 2 1 2 9 3
Thinking ME 3 7 3 8 7
SP 2 2 7 2 9
SH 8 9 8
For each Team Role:
Action IMP 9 1 8 1 7
• Surplus ?
CF 7 1 9 2
• Void ?
CO 2 9 7 3 • Tendencies?
People TW 8 8 3 1 8 • What adjustments
RI 3 9 7 3 1 will be required ?
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