Working in teams

Working in teams
Belbin Team Roles
Belbin Team Roles

Team Role: Belbins
Team Role: Belbins
definition
definition
A tendency to behave,
contribute and interrelate with
others in a particular way

How do you build a perfect
How do you build a perfect
team out of imperfect
team out of imperfect
people?
people?
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Out-going Organised Motivating
Creative
Hard-driving
Objective
Diplomatic
Meticulous Knowledgeable
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Problems with Teams
Problems with Teams

Why fail/succeed?

Why make the

right/wrong
decisions?

Why not perform as

well as expected,
with tensions,
misunderstandings?

Problem often at
personal leel! how
team members feel
about themseles
and each other"

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ddress the problem

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COMPLETER FINISHER:
Painstaking- &onscientious n0ious- Reluctant to delegate
RESOURCE INVESTIGATOR:
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SHAPER:
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TEAM!OR"ER:
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Belbin Team-Role Combination Nicknames
Belbin Team-Role Combination Nicknames