Belbin team roles

1. Training Module DOING IT TOGETHER? Belbin team roles This material has been produced within PAPYRUS project, co-funded by the British Council within ERASMUS+ Programme.

2. Belbin team roles • Dr Raymond Meredith Belbin (1924-), British management theorist known for researching into (9) team work roles; • In 1981 book Management Teams presented conclusions from his work studying how members of teams interacted • Key conclusions: effective team has members that cover eight (later nine) key roles in managing the team and how it carries out its work. • Some roles are can be easily fulfilled by the same person; some are less compatible and are likely to be done well by people with different behavioral clusters. This means that a team need not be as many as nine people, but perhaps should be at least three or four.

3. Belbin team roles " I think we've always been striving to find a way of helping people to work together. When people work in effective combinations they achieve so much more than when they're working alone. But to do that we need a language, and it needs to be a language which is shared and enables people to communicate with one another....“ Dr Meredith Belbin

4. Belbin team roles The 9 key team roles are: Now, lets find out who are you on a team...