Action-Oriented Roles
- Shaper (SH)
- Implementer (IMP)
- Complete-Finisher (CF)
People Oriented Roles
- Coordinator (CO)
- Team Worker (TW)
- Resource Investigator (RI)
Thought Oriented Roles
- Plant (PL)
- Monitor-Evaluator (ME)
- Specialist (SP)
Belbin Team Roles Training
he Belbin Team Roles framework is one of our favourite tools for improving team performance. Dr Meredith Belbin’s model for building successful teams – including leadership teams – is the result of years of research into the importance of understanding team dynamics. Dr Belbin believes that, by understanding your role within a team and playing to your strengths, you can increase your value to the team. With so much evidence that businesses perform better when their key players learn to develop their strengths and manage their weaknesses, it is hard to argue with Dr Belbin’s observations.
What Are the Main Benefits of Belbin Team Roles Training?
We have held Belbin team building workshops for many years, and we believe the Belbin Team Roles method is the most effective way to analyse and understand team dynamics. The theory of Belbin Team Roles has been proven time and time again – in fact, 99% of customers agree that Belbin helps their teams work more effectively. As well as helping you understand and strengthen the dynamics within your team, Belbin Team Roles also offers numerous other benefits, including:
- Identification of behavioural strengths.
- Identification of behavioural weaknesses.
- Individual team member development.
- Improved internal communication.
- Improved collaboration between multi-functional teams
- Management development.
- Leadership development.
- Improved recruitment decision making.
- Conflict management.
- Increased employee engagement.
After attending our Belbin Team Inventory workshops, course delegates start to think differently about themselves and their teammates. Our Belbin Team Roles training course helps managers and team members appreciate difference and diversity amongst the team. The Belbin framework also provides them with the tools they need to capitalise on the opportunities that team diversity provides.
Why Choose Accelerate’s Belbin Team Roles Training Courses?
The Belbin method does not put people in boxes. Rather, it is an observation-based framework that helps you create stronger, more balanced teams. The Belbin Team Roles framework is flexible enough to help you adapt as your team roles change over time, whilst retaining the analytical structure that makes the Belbin Team Inventory such a powerful training tool.
The Belbin framework is regularly updated to accommodate modern working practices. The Belbin reports themselves are of exceptional quality (we have a selection of sample Belbin reports available to download). Adopting the Belbin method of team development can really make a difference to the way people work in teams. Our experienced Belbin trainers are more than happy to discuss the ways in which our Belbin training courses can help you develop your team and enhance the leadership qualities of team leaders and managers.
Belbin Team Roles Training Workshop
Belbin® Team Roles is one of the most rigorous tools for working out team dynamics available. The Belbin® profiles were updated to encompass nine team roles (As opposed to eight in the original) and would be carried out online prior to the workshop. In the first instance, we may recommend self-perception, but there is an option for a 360 (observer input) version if required.
Belbin Team Roles Training Objectives
By the end of this training workshop attendees, will be able to;
- Think differently about themselves and their team members.
- Recognise their own strengths and the importance of difference.
- Recognise how the sum of the team parts may be more valuable than the individuals working on their own.
- Give a strong insight into team members' team role preferences and how they can use this effectively in their roles.
- Give greater emphasis to the allocation of roles in team tasks.
- Identify the key shape of the team in terms of team roles, and also any team Achilles heel.
Although the content will vary from session to session, this will give an example of the type of content we will cover in a typical workshop
- The Theory and background to Belbin® Team Roles.
- Analysing the individual Belbin® Profile.
- Allocating nicknames.
- Stages of team development.
- How the team performs.
- Playing to our strengths as a team.
- What sort of people would we recruit to balance a team.
- What is our teams' Achilles heel.
- Peak performing teams.
- Wrap Up.
Using a certified Belbin® team roles facilitator, ensures you are using the very latest tools and methodology, relating to team dynamics and have a Belbin® trained specialist looking after your team development. We are also able to use e-interplace which is a sophisticated online system that goes much further than a single profile and allows us to run a broad range of reports looking at the make up of your team and help you make important choices when it comes to choosing team members. It is also a 360 version which allows you to get feedback, from managers, peers and subordinates. With so much evidence that businesses perform better when their key players focus on their strengths and outsource their weaknesses, Belbin® Team Roles confirms and explains this perfectly.
With so much evidence that businesses perform better when their key players focus on their strengths and outsource their weaknesses, Belbin® Team Roles confirms and explains this perfectly. Belbin does not put people in boxes, as your team roles may change over time, and is based on observation as well as substantial research. It has also been updated regularly and the reports are of a good quality. All in all it really makes a difference to the way people work in teams. We would be happy to discuss how to develop your team or team leadership capabilities using Belbin Team Roles. Our training consultants work across the UK and further afield as required.