Belbin Team Roles
Why Attend?
Belbin’s Team Role course will provide you with a grounding in how individuals have preferred styles of working or behaviour patterns. This knowledge will help you to be more aware of your own strengths as a team leader. Also, the course will help you to know how to use an understanding of the behaviours of individual team members to help improve their and the team’s effectiveness.
Basis of course
Belbin Team Role Theory: Meredith Belbin is acknowledged as the father of team role theory. As a result of research, carried out in the 1970s, at Henley Management College on the operation of business teams, he identified the set of roles which are necessary for a successful team. Meredith Belbin’s work is covered in two publications;
- Management teams: why they succeed or fail.
- Team roles at work.
Team roles are defined by Belbin as “a pattern of behaviour characteristics of the way in which one team member interacts with another where his performance serves to facilitate the progress of the team as a whole”.
The essence of his theory is that whether team is likely to a success or failure can be predicted by understanding the work style preferences of the individual team members. Therefore a team’s ability to deliver a desired level of performance i.e. be a success, can be predicted from this analysis. The analysis will therefore identify shortcomings in potentially unsuccessful teams and can be used to improve performance by highlighting where the team dynamics need to be changed. These recommendations often focus on the importance for individuals within the team to understand the roles that others play; how they should act within the team and when and how to let another team member take over.
Links
Web link to Belbin Training home page: http://www.belbin.com/training.htm
Web link to Belbin Team Role Testing page:http://www.belbin.com/testing.htm
Related Training
Look out for our forthcoming e-course on the use of Belbin’s Team Roles in B to B selling and the management of sales teams.
