Belbin

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Belbins Team Roles
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There were four characters in a team. Everybody
was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that
Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done
it. But Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because
it was Everybodys job.
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  Everybody thought that anybody could do
it.   Nobody realised that Everybody wouldnt do
it.   It ended up that Everybody blamed
Somebody   when actually Nobody blamed Anybody.
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• What do you make out of this story?

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• A functioning team has ROLES
• Key of a good team is delegating work according
  to skills and ROLES

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What is a team role?

• A team role as defined by Dr Meredith Belbin is
• "A tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate
  with others in a particular way."

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Team Roles
The Plant The Coordinator The Resource
Investigator The Monitor Evaluator The Shaper The
Team Worker The Completer-Finisher The
Specialist The Implementer
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Belbin's Team Roles
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The Plant

• The Plant is creative and innovative.
• responsible for the production of ingenious new
  ideas and novel strategies.
• are not very team orientated, though their
  contribution to the team is very likely to
  improve the team's success

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• The Co-Ordinator
• The Co-ordinator's role is to direct the group
• Stops the discussion from becoming uncontrolled
  draws other team members back to the intended
  purpose
• The Co-coordinators enthusiasm tends to be goal
  orientated.
• Co-ordinator tends to be tolerant and will
  demonstrate that they have faith in their team
  members.
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The Resource Investigator

• Has a critical role to play in the team's new
  innovations
• Is skilled interpersonally
• Facilitates liaisons
• Looks into every corner for some valuable piece
  of information, which may facilitate
  improvisation

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The Monitor Evaluator

• Is intelligent, discerning objective and free
  from influence of emotional factors.
• Takes a back-seat role, but will come into
  prominence when a crucial decision is to be made.
  
• Is very good at weighing up the facts, carefully
  considering the pros and cons of each option, and
  finally coming to a well considered decision.
• Shows little enthusiasm or personal commitment to
  teams goals.

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The Shaper

• Is highly motivated.
• Has a high degree of nervous energy and a great
  need for achievement.
• The Shaper may lead the team, is single minded
  and critical.
• Tends to be an aggressive extrovert and as such
  may elicit an aggressive response from other team
  members.
• Can create interpersonal problems as a result of
  his open criticism of others.

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The Shaper

• May lack the interpersonal understanding and
  warmth
• The Shaper's directive approach is more
  orientated towards achieving objectives than
  towards the stable maintenance of the team.
• Shapers are excellent when it comes to sparking
  life into a team but not useful in a team that is
  functioning well.

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The Team Worker

• Is a good communicator, trusting, sensitive,
  caring and not dominant.
• Is perceptive and diplomatic not critical of
  other team members.
• The presence of a Team Worker may contribute
  greatly to the team's success simply by allowing
  better co-operation amongst team members.
• Places the group's objectives and the smooth
  running maintenance of the group itself before
  their own personal ambition.

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The Completer - Finisher

• Are hard working and conscientious.
• Are concerned to ensure that the detailed aspects
  of a project, such as testing, trialing and
  general administrative matters, are planned into
  schedules.
• Have great self-discipline and thus reflect
  discipline and orderliness in others
• Is reluctant to let a matter go unfinished.

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The Specialist

• Specialists have specialized knowledge in a
  particular area
• Their job within the team is to be an expert in
  the area, and they commit themselves fully to
  their field of expertise.
• This may limit their contribution, and lead to a
  preoccupation with technicalities at the expense
  of the bigger picture

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The Implementer

• Is concerned with detail.
• Is an excellent implementer of schemes which
  others have devised.
• Is a good organizer, and capable of directing
  subordinates.
• Tend to be well controlled emotionally, and have
  a preference for orderliness and routine.
• Is driven by their identification with the
  organisation, together with a set of principles

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The Role Role description How They Behave
PLANT A source of ideas for the group introverted but intellectually dominant and imaginative.  Contributing ideas. 
RESOURCE INVESTIGATOR Popular, sociable, extrovert, relaxed source of new contacts but not an originator.  Introduces ideas from outside Negotiating. 
SHAPER Extrovert and passionate about the task itself highly strung and dominant.  Shaping roles and objectives Pushing the group towards agreement. 
MONITOR-EVALUATOR Analytically (rather than creatively) intelligent dissects ideas, spots flaws possibly aloof.  Analysing the situation Assessing the contributions of others. 
CO-ORDINATOR Presides and co-ordinates balanced, disciplined and good at working through others. Stating objectives Helping to establish roles Summing up group achievements. 
IMPLEMENTER Practical organizer, turning ideas into tasks through scheduling and planning not a leader but a strong administrator.  Transforming discussion into practical steps Considering what is possible. 
TEAM WORKER Most concerned with team maintenance supportive, understanding, diplomatic popular but uncompetitive.  Giving support to others Seconding another persons ideas Drawing quieter people into the discussion. 
COMPLETER-FINISHER Finisher 'Chivvies the team to meet deadlines, attends to details and follows things through not always popular.  Emphasizing the need to meet the deadline Looking for errors and oversights Getting others to take the necessary actions.
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Doing and acting Implementer Shaper
Completer/Finisher Thinking/Problem-solving Pl
ant Motivator/Evaluator Specialist People
Oriented/Feelings Coordinator Team worker
Resource/Investigator