Belbin Team Roles
The Concepts
What are Team Roles?
A team role as defined by Dr Meredith Belbin is:
"A tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way"
Belbin Team Roles describe the typical patterns of behaviour each of us display when interacting with others in team or group situations.
The value of knowing our Team Roles lies in allowing each of us to benefit from self-knowledge and adjust according to the demands being made by the work situation.
A core part of Leadership Solutions work is assembling individuals’ Team Roles profiles. We use the e-Interplace software programme developed by Belbin Associates to do this work. So that those profiled can make the best use of the understanding they can gain from these reports, Belbin accredited facilitators provide one–to-one and group feedback on the profiles. Once individual team members have been profiled it is possible to combine their data to produce a range of team reports also.
How did the concept originate?
Over a period of over nine years, Meredith Belbin and his team of researchers based at Henley Management College, England, studied the behaviour of managers from all over the world. Managers taking part in the study were given a battery of psychometric tests and put into teams of varying composition, in which they engaged in a complex management exercise. Their different core personality traits, intellectual styles and behaviours were assessed during the exercise.
As the research progressed, different clusters of behaviour were identified as underlying the success of the teams. These clusters of behaviour were then given descriptive names. Over time nine distinctive Team Roles were recognized. |
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These are:
Action-oriented roles - Shaper, Implementer, and Completer Finisher
People-oriented roles - Co-ordinator, Teamworker and Resource Investigator
Thinking roles - Plant, Monitor Evaluator and Specialist
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