Introduction to Belbin's Team Roles

During 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, while they were engaged in a complex management exercise.

Belbin has identified nine different clusters of behaviour that are displayed in the workplace. These are called the 'Nine Belbin Team Roles'.

By understanding the roles that you have within your team you are best able to leverage individual skills, and improve your performance.

Im sure you will recognise some, if not all, these roles within your own team.

At the end of this session you should be able to:Explain how the 8 roles relate to each otherIdentify your personal dominant rolesApply this to your team and come up with some strategiesKnow what steps to take if you wish to do a Belbin Team workshop