What's Belbin All About? Great teams start with Belbin! Belbin Team Roles is the language of teams, enabling individuals to be able to project and talk about their behavioural strengths in a productive, safe and non-confrontational way. By using Belbin, individuals have a greater self-understanding of their strengths, which leads to more effective communication between colleagues and managers. Great teams can be put together, existing teams can be understood and improved, and everyone can feel that they are making a difference in the workplace
Use Belbin to help you get the best out of your teams. By assessing the behavioural contribution individuals make to your teams, rather than an abstract psychometric test which will tell you about their personality, Belbin looks at how people actually behave in the workplace and which roles they are best suited to take on in a team environment - we call these Team Roles.
All teams start with the individuals.
Before you can start to analyse how your teams are working together, you need to look at each individual's contribution to the team. So, the first thing you will need to so is to generate a Belbin Individual Report (Self Perception Inventory or SPI) for each person making up the team. Once you have these, we generally ask for at least 4 “Observer Assessments or OA to get a 360 perspective. A Belbin Individual Report will:

• Quickly identify an individual’s key strengths and weaknesses;
• Show how their self-perceptions differ from how they are perceived by their colleagues;
• Contain personalised guidance for the individual about how to manage their behaviour at work and how to make the most of their Team Role contributions;
• Provide insights for line managers into preferred ways of working, and the environment in which an individual will thrive;
• Suggest working styles that may be suitable for that individual.

Self-aware individuals make for a more harmonious workplace for everyone. Awareness of an individual's strengths and weaknesses allows their leaders to adopt different strategies when managing different people. Why do some people seem to struggle more than others? If you have an individual within your organisation who is struggling, then a Belbin Individual Report will quickly identify where their areas of strength and weakness lie. An Individual report opens up productive dialogue regarding the team member. All organisations want high performing teams, but how can you ensure that yours will be? Whether you're forming a new team, introducing new people to an existing team, or trying to resolve issues within a team, a Belbin Team Report can help you to manage it.The starting point is with the individuals making up the team. Once you have Individual Reports for each team member, you can bring that information together to make a Belbin Team Report.
What makes one team perform better than another? Belbin's original research showed that the most successful teams were not necessarily the ones with the smartest people in them, but those with the right blend of Team Roles (or behavioural contributions How can Belbin help my teams perform better? A Belbin Team Report will look at each of the individuals making up the team, and the contribution (or team role) that they are most likely to play within the team. The Report will quickly identify where there are gaps, and where there are overlaps. Both of these situations could lead to conflicts within the team, and will mean that the team is not performing optimally. Information contained within the Report will help you to quickly identify who is the right person to perform each role or task within the team.To learn more contact us.