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What are Belbin Team Role Reports?

To find out which of the 9 Belbin Team Roles you have an affinity towards, and which ones you don’t, you need to start by completing a Belbin Self-Perception Inventory.

This is a questionnaire that takes about 20 minutes to complete. Your scores are interpreted by our e-interplace programme (developed in 1988 and updated ever since). Your report is generated, and sent back to you within minutes.

Your Belbin report

By completing your self-perception inventory you receive a 4-page report that gives you an overview of your behaviour, along with advice on how to project your strengths and be aware of potential weaknesses:

	Self-Perception Team Role Profile The Self-Perception Team Role Profile is based on your scoring of the Self-Perception Inventory. It shows on the right your "preferred roles", in the middle your "manageable roles", and to the left your "least preferred roles". It is measured against the BELBIN® norm database of over 5,600 SPIs. So for example, if you come out as 100% "Shaper", it means that you very much aspire to play the "Shaper" role and that less than 1% of the people tested scored such a high mark for that role.
	Counselling Report This is probably the most frequently used report and certainly the most popular in terms of feedback. It is generated from the top two team roles and bottom team role in the overall ranking. The report offers advice on adopting a management style which fits in with your team role strengths and weaknesses.
	Character Profile This report highlights your strengths and possible weaknesses and offers advice on job placement. Sentences are generated if certain Team Roles lie above or below specified percentages. If used for recruitment, suggestions are made on questions to ask you, bearing in mind your Team Role profile.
	Personal Work Style The pie chart shows four styles of working that would suit your Team Role strengths. These are based on combinations of your top roles displayed to the right of the chart. Use the suggested phrases to project your Team Role strengths to others.

This report is based on how you see your behaviour within the workplace. However, the characteristics you identify may not be the behaviour that others would pinpoint or value.

Observer Assessments

Observer Assessments are Belbin's method for obtaining 360-degree feedback. This process entails approaching managers, colleagues and those you manage (where applicable) and asking them to complete a short assessment on you. The Observer Assessment takes 5-10 minutes to complete and consists of two ticklists of adjectives, which observers tick according to whether or not they feel the adjectives apply to your behaviour or working style.

Observer Assessments inform your Belbin profile, adding four pages to your report (so you receive an 8-page report in total) which compare your view of your Team Roles to those who work with you. This process is very important to your Belbin assessment, because it is a behavioural, rather than a psychometric or personality test, so measures the behaviour you exhibit and how this affects those with whom you interact.

Additional pages once a minimum of 4 observers have completed their assessment:

	Assessment Results in Rank Order (only generated with 1 or more Observers) This report shows your overall Team Role ranking in order from highest to lowest, according to yourself and your observers. The Overall ranking on the bottom line is a combination of the two, so the number 1 role in the Overall ranking shows your main Team Role contribution.
	Pie Charts of SPI versus Observers (only generated with 4 or more Observers) The Pie Chart on the left shows the roles which you like to play; that on the right, those which others see you playing. There are bound to be differences between the two, which you can compare or contrast. The figures below the charts represent the percentage slice of the pie for each Team Role.
	Bar Graph of Observer Words (only generated with 4 or more Observers) The Bar Graph shows how other people see your team role contributions and is based on the total number of Observer words ticked. To the left of the line is the negative part of the role. This is what is called an allowable weakness, if you also have associated strengths.
	List of Observer Responses (only generated with 4 or more Observers) This is a list of the words used by Observers in descending order of frequency. The words at the top of this list are seen as some of your main strengths and behavioural characteristics most appreciated by others. It is normal to have zero marks for some words. Try to work with people who will cover what you lack.