The Belbin Team Analysis

For my third and final behavioural test, I present the Belbin Team Role Report (https://www.belbin.com/). A big thank you to my six work colleagues who helped provide assessments.

Background

The assessment was devised by Management Theorist Meredith Belbin to measure preference for nine Team Roles. He had identified eight whilst studying numerous teams at Henley Management College in Oxfordshire and later identified the ninth; “The Specialist” after the original research.

Belbin asserts that the Team Roles are not equivalent to personality types such as Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which is a psychometric instrument. The Belbin Inventory scores people on how strongly they express behavioural traits from nine different Team Roles. A person may exhibit strong tendencies towards multiple roles.

My Team Roles

The effective Monitor Evaluator is Objective, Analytical and Discerning.

My strong Monitor Evaluator function indicates I see all options objectively and do well in a job requiring careful judgement. It is important I promote this strength so that others can recognise it more fully. My peers in particular seemed to have rated me quite highly as a Plant (Creative, imaginative, free-thinking. Generates ideas and solves difficult problems.) I do lack an overall definitive Team Role preference.

At Work

My Team Role strengths suggests I may contribute on 4 key fronts at work:

1. Rational Creativity - "I like to ensure the ideas I offer are appropriate for the situation."
2. Calculating - "I enjoy analysing when and how expertise can be beneficially adopted."
3. Planning - "I like to be responsible for preparation and planning."
4. Researching - "I find that study can often lead to new ideas."

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Learn more about your Belbin Team Roles

https://www.belbin.com/

The full report is 13 Pages. It covers your self-perception and perception from 6 work colleagues. It will also provide greater depth than I have shown here and highlight potential development points. 

There are benefits to knowing your Team Roles so that you can ensure that you are working in ways that play to your key strengths. Knowing your Team Roles can help to build stronger working relationships with your colleagues. If you are looking to move to a new job, either externally or within your current organisation, then a Belbin Report can help both you and your recruiter immediately understand how you can benefit the team, and will make you stand out from the other candidates.

Which roles do you play?