Nine Belbin Team Roles
Take Control of Your Career
Do you ever feel that you're not being given the opportunity to reach your full potential? Are you performing the wrong roles within a team? Or are you looking to move job and want to be able to demonstrate your contribution to your new employer?
What's Belbin All About?
Great teams start with Belbin! Belbin Team Roles is the language of teams, enabling individuals to be able to project and talk about their behavioural strengths in a productive, safe and non-confrontational way.
THE 9 TEAM ROLES
Dr. Belbin could predict with 86 percent accuracy how a team would perform in business simulation games.
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There are Nine clusters of behaviors — areas of contribution — that are distinctive and predictable.
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When all nine areas of contribution — called Team Roles — are well-represented in a team, there is higher potential for success.
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Nine people are not required in a team to cover all the Belbin Team Roles, because individuals can contribute with all of their Preferred Roles.
Why Use Belbin Team Roles?
With Teams
Teams offer diversity, promote learning opportunities, address more complex problems, offer flexibility, deliver faster results and can mirror organisational values. Teams don’t just make us better workers, they make us better people. Belbin Team Roles can help:
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Select people to form high-performing teams
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Develop and coach existing teams
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Maximise the use of virtual teams
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Bring together multi-functional teams
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Optimise project teams
99%
of employees agree that Belbin helps teams work more effectively.
With Teams
Teams offer diversity, promote learning opportunities, address more complex problems, offer flexibility, deliver faster results and can mirror organisational values. Teams don’t just make us better workers, they make us better people. Belbin Team Roles can help:
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Select people to form high-performing teams
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Develop and coach existing teams
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Maximise the use of virtual teams
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Bring together multi-functional teams
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Optimise project teams
99%
of employees agree that Belbin helps teams work more effectively.
In Management Training
87%
of employees use Belbin to help managers manage successfully
Belbin is integral to effective management at all levels, from junior managers looking for insights into their teams, to Executive and Senior Management Teams (SMTs). Understanding and utilising the natural talents and motivations of staff is key to great management, and that's where Belbin can help. Belbin Team Roles can:
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Help managers make the transformation from being effective process managers to becoming outstanding people managers
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Give managers a language to describe how they interact and interrelate with others. With the self-insight and understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses, a manager is well-equipped to help others maximise their own potential
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Enable managers to put together their own great teams!
For Conflict Management
Conflict usually arises from misunderstanding or lack of communication, and can manifest itself in myriad ways, including lowered morale, reduced productivity and increases in absenteeism. Belbin Team Roles can help to depersonalise problems, focusing on behaviours to avoid personal attacks which can often exacerbate conflict.
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Belbin and interpersonal conflict – an individual's Belbin Report (with other team members invited to offer structured feedback by way of Belbin Observer Assessments) offers individuals an opportunity to explore their colleagues' experience of their behavioural contributions. Team and Working Relationship Reports highlight areas of potential conflict and misunderstanding in teams and pairs respectively.
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Belbin and cross-team conflict – sometimes, teams become too inwardly-focused and forget their role within the organisation at large. Departmental teams can begin to compete, or dismiss each other's suggestions and outputs, leading to cross-team conflict and reduced productivity. Belbin can offer insights into distinctive team cultures, helping teams use any competitive tendencies to the organisation's advantage!
90%
of employees agree that Belbin helps comunication