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Does your team speak 'Belbin'?

by The Belbin Team, 22 Sep 2023

With Belbin, you find out what you are – a Plant, a Resource Investigator etc – and then you tell everyone in your team and stick to the work that suits you. Right? Not exactly.

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Virtual Teamwork and Belbin Team Roles

by The Belbin Team | Victoria Brown, 28 Jan 2021

At Belbin, we wanted to find out more how ‘going remote’ is affecting all areas of work, including engagement, productivity and management. This is what we found.

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Is your team missing this most hidden form of diversity?

by The Belbin Team | Victoria Brown, 09 Sep 2020

There’s a kind of diversity we can’t see. There is a type of diversity that is less visible, a journey we’ve barely even started. And it’s the only type of diversity proven to enhance team performance

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Psychological safety in a world of uncertainty

by The Belbin Team | Victoria Brown, 02 Sep 2020

For many of us, the global pandemic has necessitated enormous changes in the way we work and it’s now, when teams are at their most vulnerable, that psychological safety is most important.

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Intellect and individual endeavour in Belbin's Apollo teams

by The Belbin Team | Victoria Brown, 26 Aug 2020

“Before we tinker with the team design, let’s verify the basic principles. In a business simulation exercise that places an emphasis on cleverness, the cleverest teams should win.” Aka the Apollo Team

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Returning to the six basics of how we work best

by The Belbin Team | Victoria Brown, 20 Mar 2020

Returning to the 6 basics of how we work best. In these uncertain times, we’re all trying to figure out what to do next. When it comes down to it, what matters is how we behave...

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Nature’s other lesson – how teamwork and kindness are at the heart of change

by The Belbin Team | Victoria Brown, 11 Mar 2020

Our latest blog on how industry can lead the way when it comes to meaningful, sustainable change, and why teams hold the key to making the impossible possible.

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A Collective Term for Coaches?

by The Belbin Team, 26 Nov 2019

We attended the recent Midlands Coaching Conference - what would a typical coach look like we wondered? Is there such a thing as a typical coach?

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Are you a Networking lover or hater?

by The Belbin Team | Victoria Brown, 09 Nov 2019

So says an article in Harvard Business Review, which suggests that our objectives vary so wildly from those of other attendees that success is not only unlikely, but also hard to quantify. “Everyone…