Belbin - giving people and teams the tools they need to drive business performance

From Dr Meredith Belbin

"I think we've always been striving to find a way of helping people to work together. When people work in effective combinations they achieve so much more than when they're working alone. But to do that, we need a language, and it needs to be a language which is shared and enables people to communicate with one another."  

The Belbin team

As of 1st October 2022, Belbin Associates has transitioned to become Belbin Ltd, an Employee Ownership Trust.

The EOT is a means of acknowledging and celebrating Belbin’s past and securing a bright future. As a company that ‘practises what we preach’, Belbin is proud of the strength of its own team. In effecting this transition, we are giving back to our employees – making them the curators of our brand and strengthening their connection to the business.

Our mission: to help teams and organisations worldwide to recognise – and capitalise upon – their strengths, and to work more effectively together.

“I think it is fair to say that the [Belbin] day was transformational for our team. We had been through a lot of change and turbulence over the past few months, and it helped us come back together, appreciate one another and refocus. The change in the team has been remarkable."

Teach First Design Team

"We see Belbin as providing a huge competitive advantage in forming project teams. We know that we need people with specific Team Roles to make projects happen – so why wouldn’t we want to know who those people are and make use of them?"

Anthony O'Hara | FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies (FDB)

Why we use Belbin - Oppo

"We are a small team, we haven’t got an awful lot of resource, so we've got to make sure we maximise our strength wherever possible.  So far, we have done it through gut feel... Now we’ve got a bit of insight, we can really maximise the opportunities, and which jobs and which tasks people are going to enjoy most."