Hitting the Target: Setting the scene
We love hearing about the myriad ways Belbin is used in practice.
This case study from our colleague, Anders N. Reichborn, in Norway introduces an innovative and informative way to illustrate how Team Role balance affects a team’s focus, and ultimately, its performance.
Anders and his colleagues were working with a project involving co-operation between units. They had mapped the Team Roles of all teams across two levels and worked intensively on personal Team Role awareness and team composition.
The group were able to increase their understanding of the resources available to them and learn how to achieve a better balance within each team.
They discovered some noticeable differences between the cultures of different teams.
Looking for a creative and educational way of moving focus from individual and single team level, to cooperation between them, Anders decided to use a model introduced to him by Mr. Bjoerneby, an HR director of Borregaard Industries, which is a global supplier of performance chemicals.
Mr. Bjoerneby was an experienced Belbin user who used ‘The Belbin Arrow’ to demonstrate the need for team balance, and the roles individuals can play within it.
