©2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

©2010 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice

BELBIN TEAM ROLE INVENTORY

Camelia Alexandru

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• Share information about Belbin Team Role Inventory

• Acknowledge our role in the team

Course objective

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Agenda

• Information about

the Belbin Inventory

• Studying the 8

categories of team

roles•The Belbin Test

•Questions

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Belbin Team Role InventoryAlso called the Belbin Self-Perception Inventory

It is a behavioral tool, subject to change, and not a psychometric instrument

The Belbin Inventory scores people on how strongly they express behavioral traits from 8 different Team Roles

An individual may and often does exhibit strong tendencies towards multiple roles

• Are creative and a generators of ideas• If an innovative solution to a problem is needed, a Plant is a

good person to ask• bright and free-thinking • Plants can tend to ignore incidentals and refrain from getting

bogged down in detail.• Multiple Plants in a team can lead to conflicts, as many ideas

are generated without sufficient discernment or the impetus to follow the ideas through to action

PLANT

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• gives a team a rush of enthusiasm at the start of the project by vigorously pursuing contacts and opportunities.

• is focused outside the team, and has a finger firmly on the pulse of the outside world.

• is a maker of possibilities and an excellent networker, but has a tendency to lose momentum towards the end of a project and to forget small details.

RESOURCE INVESTIGATOR

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• is a likely candidate for the chairperson of a team, since they have a talent for stepping back to see the big picture.

• are confident, stable and mature and because they recognize abilities in others, they are very good at delegating tasks to the right person for the job.

• clarifies decisions, helping everyone else focus on their tasks.

• Coordinators are sometimes perceived to be manipulative

COORDINATOR

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• is a task-focused individual who pursues objectives with vigor and who is driven by nervous energy and the need to achieve

• winning is the name of the game

• is committed to achieving ends and will ‘shape’ others into achieving the aims of the team

• will display aggression in the pursuit of goal achievement

SHAPER

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• are fair and logical observers and judges of what is going on in the team.

• they are often the ones to see all available options with the greatest clarity and impartiality.

• They have a broad view in problem-solving, and by moving slowly and analytically, will almost always come to the right decision.

• they can become very critical, and they have a hard time inspiring themselves or others to be passionate about their work.

MONITOR - EVALUATOR

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TEAM WORKER• is the oil between the cogs that keeps the machine

that is the team running smoothly.

• they are good listeners and diplomats, talented at smoothing over conflicts and helping parties understand one other without becoming confrontational.

• because of an unwillingness to take sides, a Team worker may not be able to take decisive action when it is needed

• takes their colleagues' suggestions and ideas and turns them into positive action.

• efficient and self-disciplined, and can always be relied on to deliver on time.

• motivated by their loyalty to the team or company, which means that they will often take on jobs everyone else avoids or dislikes.

• they may be seen as closed-minded and inflexible

IMPLEMENTER

• is a perfectionist and will often go the extra mile to make sure everything is "just right"

• the things he or she delivers can be trusted to have been double-checked and then checked again.

• has a strong inward sense of the need for accuracy, and sets his or her own high standards rather than working on the encouragement of others.

COMPLETER FINISHER

• There are 8 roles:

- Plant, Implementer, Shaper, Completer/ Finisher, Coordinator,

Teamworker, Resource Investigator, Monitor/Evaluator

• This aren’t types of personality!

REMEMBER

Questionnaire

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