belbin team inventory
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Belbin Team Inventory is used to gain insight into an individual\'s behavioral type. It assesses how an individual behaves in a team environment.TRANSCRIPT
Belbin Team Inventory
Belbin Self-Perception Inventory
• Used to gain insight into an individual's behavioral type.
• Assesses how an individual behaves in a team behaves in a team
environment.
• Behavioral tool, subject to
change.
• Developed by Dr. Meredith
Belbin
How it works
• 360-degree feedback from observers
• Individual’s own assessment of their behavior
• Compare and contrast both views.
Belbin Self-Inventory
• Scores people on how strongly they express
traits from 9 different Team Roles.
• 1 Person may exhibit multiple Roles.
• Team Roles are NOT equivalent to Personality • Team Roles are NOT equivalent to Personality
Types
Role #1 : Plant
• Creative, unorthodox, and a
generator of ideas.
• Bright and free-thinking.
Popular caricature of absentminded
professor-inventor that often has a hard
time communicating ideas to others.
Role #2 : Resource Investigator
Role #2 : Resource Investigator
• Gives team rush of enthusiasm at the start of the
project
– Vigorously pursuing contacts and opportunities
– Focused outside the team– Focused outside the team
• Plant comes up with innovative ideas, Resource
Investigator steals ideas from others.
• A maker of possibilities and excellent networker
• Tendency to lose momentum towards the end
and forgets small details.
Role #3 : Coordinator
Role #3 : Coordinator
• Often default Chairperson of a team
• Confident, stable and mature
• Very good at delegating tasks
to the right personto the right person
• Clarifies decisions, brings team to focus on task
• Perceived as manipulative, tends to delegate all work, leaving nothing but the delegating for them to do.
Role #4 : Shaper
Role #4 : Shaper
• Task focused leader who abounds in nervous
energy
• High motivation to achieve
• Winning is the name of the game• Winning is the name of the game
• Committed and “shapes” team to achieve
• Challenge, argue, or disagree and show
aggression in pursuit to achieve goals.
• 2-3 Shapers in a team leads to conflict.
Role #5 : Monitor Evaluator
Role #5 : Monitor Evaluator
• Fair and logical observers and judges what goes on
• Good at detaching themselves from bias
– See all available options with great clarity
• Take everything into account, move slowly and analytically analytically
• Almost always come to the right decision
• Become aggressively cynical, damp enthusiasm for anything without logical grounds
• Have hard time inspiring themselves and others to be passionate about their work.
Role #6 : Team Worker
Role #6 : Team Worker
• The oil that keeps the machine going.
• Good listeners and diplomats
• Talented at soothing over conflict
• Help parties understand each other without • Help parties understand each other without becoming confrontational
• Beneficial effect not noticed until absent
• Unwilling to take sides
– May not be able to take decisive action when needed
Role #7 : Implementer
• Turns ideas into positive action
• Efficient and self-disciplined
– Always relied on to deliver on time
• Motivated by their loyalty to teamteam
– Often take on jobs everyone avoids/dislikes
• Close-minded and inflexible
– Since they have difficulty deviating from their own well-thought-out plans.
Role #8 : Completer Finisher
Role #8 : Completer Finisher
• Perfectionist.
– Goes that extra-mile to make sure everything is RIGHT.
• Strong inward sense for accuracy
• Rarely needs encouragement• Rarely needs encouragement
– Tries to live up to own high standards
• Frustrate their team mates
– Worry excessively over small details
– Refuse to delegate tasks that they don’t trust others
to do.
Role #9 : Specialist
Role #9 : Specialist
• Passionate about their own field
– Greatest Depth of knowledge
– Enjoy importing it to others
– Constantly improving their wisdom– Constantly improving their wisdom
• Find answers to anything they don’t know.
• High level of concentration ability
• Skill in their discipline to the team
• Only contribute on narrow front
– Uninterested in anything outside its narrow confines.
Team Roles
Plant
Resource Investigator
Shaper
CoordinatorCoordinator
Monitor Evaluator
Team Worker
Implementer
Completer Finisher
Specialist
Recommended Reads
• Official Website: http://belbin.com
• Belbin Leadership Role to Improve team Effectiveness
– http://www.radford.edu/~kstevens2.jss.pdf
• Belbin Leadership Role to Improve team Effectiveness: An Empirical Investigation
– http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V0N-3VHWGKR-J&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F31%2F1999&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=
Credits
• Flickr.com, some photos
• Wikipedia.org, resource