Belbin Team Inventory

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