Belbin Team Role reports give a common language to help:
- individuals form productive working relationships
- to select and develop high-performing teams
- to raise self-awareness and increase personal effectiveness
- to identify talent in the workplace
- to aid recruitment decisions...and much more!
Belbin Team Roles...more than just theory.
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 opportunities 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 people'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.
