Belbin Team Roles are used to identify people's behavioural strengths and weaknesses in the workplace. The Team Role reports enable individuals to build mutual trust, understanding and productive working relationships. Using the reports also helps select/develop high performing teams, raise self-awareness and increase personal effectiveness.
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Plant
Strengths: Creative, imaginative, free-thinking. Generates ideas and solves difficult problems. Allowable Weaknesses: Ignores incidentals. Too preoccupied to communicate effectively.
Resource Investigator
Strengths: Outgoing, enthusiastic, communicative. Explores opportunites and develops contacts. Allowable Weaknesses: Over-optimistic. Loses interest once initial enthusiasm has passed.
Co-ordinator
Strengths: Mature, confident, identifies talent. Clarifies goals. Delegates effectively. Allowable Weaknesses: Can be seen as manipulative. Offloads own share of work.
Shaper
Strengths: Challenging, dynamic, thrives on pressure. Has the drive and courage to overcome obstacles. Allowable Weaknesses: Prone to provocation. Offends peoples's feelings.
Monitor Evaluator
Strengths: Sober, strategic and discerning. Sees all options and judges accurately. Allowable Weaknesses: Lacks drive and ability to inspire others. Can be overly critical.
Teamworker
Strengths: Co-operative, perceptive and diplomatic. Listens and averts friction. Allowable Weaknesses: Indecisive in crunch situations. Avoids confrontation.
Implementer
Strengths: Practical, reliable, efficient. Turns ideas into actions and organises work that needs to be done. Allowable Weaknesses: Somewhat inflexible. Slow to respond to new possibilities.
