What are Belbins Team Roles?
From research conducted over many years Dr Meredith Belbin has discovered that teams work most effectively when they contain members with a range of preferred roles. These have come to be known as Shaper, Coordinator, Teamworker, Completer Finisher, Implementer, Monitor Evaluator, Plant, Resource Investigator and Specialist. A team with too many Plants and not enough Completer Finishers is likely to create lots of innovative ideas (the role of Plants) but there will be no-one to put them into action (the role of Completer Finishers). A team with more than one Shaper should expect conflict as they compete to have things done their way. Read more …. How to use Team Roles Knowledge of individuals’ preferred team roles can be used in three ways: • To select a new team with the full range of preferred roles (like selecting a football team – choosing players with the range of skills and attributes needed to fill all the positions). • To build high performance teams • To resolve conflicts i
