Belbin Team Roles Team Role Results

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Belbin Team RolesTeam Role Results
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Session Objectives

• By the end of the session participants will have
• understood how to interpret their Self-Perception
  Inventory results
• shared their profiles with each other
• identified the strengths and weaknesses of their
  own team
• established a common language with which to
  discuss work-related behavioural issues.

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Team Roles at Work

• Nobody is perfect,
• but a team can be

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How do you build a perfect team out of imperfect
people?
The perfect individual could be described as
Out-going
Organised
Motivating
Objective
Hard-driving
Creative
Meticulous
Knowledgeable
Diplomatic
Unlikely to find all of these qualities in one
person...
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Problems with Teams

• Problem often at personal level how team members
  feel about themselves and each other.
• People find it hard to deal with these
  behavioural, emotional issues.

• Why fail/succeed?
• Why make the right/wrong decisions?
• Why not perform as well as expected, with
  tensions, misunderstandings?

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Address the problem

• Need a way of looking at these issues, measuring
  their effect, and need a language for talking
  about them
• What makes a balanced and effective team -
  better the mix, the better the performance

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People at work have a

• Team Role
• that persons tendency to behave, contribute and
  inter-relate with others in a particular way

• Functional Role
• job title function
• experience expertise
• not personal characteristics or aptitudes

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Belbin Team Role Expert System

• Belbin - 9 team role types
• Each type has a typical behavioural strength and
  a characteristic weakness
• Allowable weaknesses are the negative side of
  the positive strength

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Team Roles

• Plant
• Resource Investigator
• Co-ordinator
• Shaper
• Monitor Evaluator

• Teamworker
• Implementer
• Completer-Finisher
• Specialist

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Team Role Theory

• Strengths
• realise strengths weaknesses
• if role absent, can compensate
• groups can be formed deliberately with team role
  theory

• Weaknesses
• individuals may not be true to role in all
  circumstances
• overpowering leader syndrome
• organisational politics
• organisational national culture

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Benefits of Team Role Theory

• Recognise strengths
• More tolerance for weaknesses
• A language to talk about behaviour

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What How

• Self-perception inventory
• Database generates
• Team role preferences
• Counselling report
• Character report
• Team reports
• Observer assessments
• 4 per participant
• Generates a complete profile

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The UN System and Team Roles

• UNSSC - 3,000 UN staff in the database
• Your profiles are generated against this
  multicultural UN data
• Your profile can change over time depending on
  your job
• Its up to you to validate your report

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TEAM-ROLE CONTRIBUTION
ALLOWABLE WEAKNESSES
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Action-oriented roles -
SHAPER, IMPLEMENTER COMPLETER FINISHER
CO-ORDINATOR, TEAMWORKER RESOURCE
INVESTIGATOR
People-oriented roles -
Cerebral roles -
PLANT, MONITOR EVALUATOR SPECIALIST
TEAM ROLE OPPOSITES
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As projects progress, different team roles
are required KEY STAGES FOR SUCCESS
Needs Ideas Plans Contacts Organisation Follow
Through
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Belbin Team-Role Combination Nicknames
TEAM ROLE PAIR NICKNAME TEAM ROLE PAIR
NICKNAME PLRI EXPLORER
COTW COUNSELLOR PLCO NAVIGATOR
COCF EDITOR PLSH MAVERICK
COSP PROJECT LEADER PLME BRAINS
SHME INQUISITOR PLIMP
ARCHITECT SHIMP TASK
MASTER PLTW HIDDEN TALENT SHTW
TEAM CAPTAIN PLCF SCULPTOR
SHCF PURSUER PLSP PROFESSOR
SHSP STEAMROLLER RICO
FACILITATOR MEIMP PLANNER RISH
DYNAMO METW
TEAM CONSCIENCE RIME DETECTIVE
MECF CORRECTOR RIIMP SCOUT
MESP CALCULATOR RITW
COMMUNICATOR IMPTW CONFORMER RICF
CONTRACTOR IMPCF DOER RISP
BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR IMPSP MR/MISS FIX
IT COSH BOSS TWCF EMPLOYEE OF
THE COME JUDGE
MONTH COIMP
ORGANISER TWSP TECHNICAL
SUPPORT
CFSP REFINER
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6 Differences team/group
SIZE LIMITED MEDIUM or
LARGE
SELECTION CRUCIAL IMMATERIAL
LEADERSHIP SHARED or ROTATING SOLO
PERCEPTION MUTUAL KNOWLEDGE FOCUS
ON UNDERSTANDING LEADER
STYLE ROLE SPREAD CONVERGENCE CO-ORDINATIO
N CONFORMISM
SPIRIT DYNAMIC INTERACTION TOGETHERNESS
PERSECUTION OF OPPONENTS
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TR RANK 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8
9 SPI CO RI ME
CF SP PL TW IMP SH Observer 1
CO RI CF PL ME
IMP SH TW SP Observer 2 RI CO
ME SP CF IMP PL
SH TW Observer 3 CO ME RI
CF PL IMP SH SP TW Observer 4
CO RI ME PL CF
TW IMP SH SP Overall CO RI
ME CF PL IMP SP
TW SH
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TR RANK 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 SPI SH ME IMP
SP PL CF RI CO
TW Observer 1 IMP ME SH CF
PL RI SP TW CO Observer 2
ME SH IMP CF PL
RI SP TW CO Observer 3 ME
IMP SH CF RI SP PL
TW CO Observer 4 IMP ME SH
CF RI SP PL TW
CO Overall ME IMP SH
CF SP PL RI TW CO
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TR RANK 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
9 SPI ME CF CO PL
RI SP IMP TW SH Observer 1 SH
CF ME IMP RI SP TW
PL CO Observer 2 TW RI IMP ME
SP CO SH CF PL Observer 3 PL
SP CO RI SH ME IMP
CF TW Observer 4 SP IMP SH PL
CF CO RI ME TW Overall
ME SP RI CF IMP PL
SH CO TW
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TR RANK 1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8
9 SPI PL TW RI
IMP ME SP CO SH CF Observer
1 SP IMP ME RI SH
CF CO PL TW Observer 2 SP ME
IMP SH CF PL RI
TW CO Observer 3 ME SP SH
CF IMP PL RI TW
CO Observer 4 SP IMP SH ME
CO PL RI CF TW Overall
SP ME IMP PL SH
RI CF TW CO
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TEAM-ROLE CONTRIBUTION
ALLOWABLE WEAKNESSES