Belbin TeamRoles Workshop

Create high performing, unified teams through Belbin workshops, profiling and team experiences

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The Belbin Team Role Circle with Social, Thinking and Action sections

Event Overview

Knowledge of Belbin’s Team Roles model can help you identify potential strengths and weaknesses within your team, overcome conflict between your co-workers and understand and appreciate everyone’s contributions.

The Belbin model is a very effective and insightful team behavioural test. It was devised to measure preferences for nine Team Roles, each one giving insight into how an individual behaves in a team environment.

The assessment includes 360-degree feedback from observers as well as the individual’s own evaluation of their behaviour, and contrasts how they see their behaviour with how their colleagues do. Belbin himself asserts that the Team Roles are not equivalent to personality types. The Belbin Inventory scores people on how strongly they express behavioural traits from nine different Team Roles. A person may and often does exhibit strong tendencies towards multiple roles.

Belbin's 9 Team Roles:

  • Plant
Contribution: Creative, imaginative, free-thinking. Generates ideas and solves difficult problems. Allowable Weaknesses: Might ignore incidentals, and may be too preoccupied to communicate.
  • Resource Investigator
Contribution: Outgoing, enthusiastic. Explores opportunities and develops contacts. Allowable Weaknesses: Might be over-optimistic, and can lose interest once the initial enthusiasm has passed.
  • Monitor Evaluator
Contribution: Sober, strategic and discerning. Sees all options and judges accurately. Allowable Weaknesses: Sometimes lacks the drive and ability to inspire others and can be overly critical.
  • Implementer
Contribution: Practical, reliable, efficient. Turns ideas into actions and organises work that needs to be done. Allowable Weaknesses: Can be a bit inflexible and slow to respond to new possibilities.
  • Team Worker
Contribution: Co-operative, perceptive and diplomatic. Listens and averts friction. Allowable Weaknesses: Can be indecisive in crunch situations and tends to avoid confrontation.
  • Shaper
Contribution: Challenging, dynamic, thrives on pressure. Has the drive and courage to overcome obstacles. Allowable Weaknesses: Can be prone to provocation, and may sometimes offend people's feelings.
  • Completer Finisher
Contribution: Painstaking, conscientious, anxious. Searches out errors. Polishes and perfects. Allowable Weaknesses: Can be inclined to worry unduly, and reluctant to delegate.
  • Specialist
Contribution: Single-minded, self-starting and dedicated. They provide specialist knowledge and skills. Allowable Weaknesses: Can only contribute on a narrow front and tends to dwell on the technicalities.
  • Co-ordinator
Contribution: Mature, confident, identifies talent. Clarifies goals. Delegates effectively. Allowable Weaknesses: Can be seen as manipulative and might offload their own share of the work.

Event Features

FORMAT

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VENUE

INDOOR

LOCATION

UK WIDE

GROUP SIZE

5 - 500

DURATION

4 - 8 HOURS

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What’s Included

  • A workshop tailored to your team
  • All Belbin resources
  • A trained Belbin workshop expert
  • Experienced event staff and event manager
  • Fully trained first aider
  • Full event set-up and pack-down
  • Fully mobile team – we travel to your chosen venue, anywhere in the UK
  • Free venue-finding service
  • Public liability insurance
  • Full risk assessment

How It Works

The Belbin Team Roles model helps teams understand how individuals naturally contribute, communicate and collaborate in a working environment. Through a combination of profiling, reflection and practical workshops, participants gain valuable insight into their own strengths, the strengths of others and how they can work together more effectively.
  • Discover individual strengths and behaviours – identify your preferred Team Roles and understand the unique contributions you bring to a team.
  • Build greater team awareness – explore how different working styles complement each other and recognise the value that every team member adds.
  • Improve communication and collaboration – develop a shared language that helps teams understand differences, reduce conflict and work together more effectively.
  • Create high-performing teams – use Belbin insights to improve team dynamics, strengthen relationships and ensure the right people are contributing in the right way.
  • Identify opportunities for improvement – uncover potential gaps, overlaps and challenges within the team that could impact performance, communication or desicion-making.
Belbin workshops provide teams with a practical framework for understanding how they work best together, helping organisations build stronger relationships, unlock potential and create more effective, unified teams.

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Outcomes

Belbin Team Roles give insight into your team members’ individual contributions and weaknesses, improving their understanding of how to work together as a team.

Improved teamwork

Role awareness

Business success

Opportunity identification

Increased performance

Better communication

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Belbin Team Roles FAQs

Belbin Team Roles is a well-researched, effective behavioural test, including the following 9 roles: Co-ordinator, Specialist, Implementer, Shaper, Plant, Monitor-Evaluator, Resource Investigator, Team Worker and Completer-Finisher. Learning more about which roles you take can help you work better with your team, improve communication and individual performance.

The Belbin Team Roles workshop is ideal for corporate teams and individuals who want to improve communication and performance within teams. Belbin gives team members the tools to understand their roles within the team and how to work with others.

We recommend the Belbin Team Roles workshop to groups between 5 and 500 participants.

The comprehensive Belbin Team Roles workshop can be adapted to fit your schedule, but optimally lasts either half or a full working day.

GOTO Events delivers workshops at your chosen venue or office anywhere in the UK, as we are completely mobile. If you still haven’t secured a venue, don’t worry, as we also offer a complimentary venue finding service.

The Belbin Team Roles were developed by Dr. Meredith Belbin, a British researcher, at Henley Management College during the 1960-70s. His work involved observing teams in management simulations, known as “business games,” to identify the behavioural patterns that contributed to team success or failure. Belbin discovered that having teams with balanced roles is the key to success in corporate teams.

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