How can the Belbin team roles analysis help?
Dr Meredith Belbin’s work has helped enormously to generate understanding what leads to team effectiveness. His key observation was that an effective team, as well as having a sufficient mix of functional expertise, consists also of an optimum mix of process roles – the chairperson, the planner, the ideas person, the networker, and so on. The Belbin questionnaire identifies the strengths of these across a work team, and can help explain why it’s having problems and what it can do to overcome them. Thousands of facilitators and consultants use the Belbin analysis, including us!
