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Balamurugan S (15ME020)
Boopala Krishnan (15ME023)
Danush Raj D (15ME024)
Dinesh V (15ME026)
 Here Belbin’s team role and their importance to
management are discused.
 Belbin’s team role will also help him put a team together
in the workplace ??
 How important a manager should understand Belbin’s
team role ??
 The above mentioned topics are being discussed in this
presentation.
 In the 1970’s , Dr Meredith Belbin and his research
team at Henley Management college set about
observing teams.
 Over a period of nine years, international management
teams were studied.
 As the research progressed, it revealed the difference
between success and failure for a team.
 It doesn’t dependent upon the factors such as intellect,
but more on behaviour.
 As a result of this research , TEAM ROLE is defined as
“A TENDENCY TO BEHAVE,CONTRIBUTE
AND INTERRELATE WITH OTHERS IN A
PARTICULAR WAY”
 Belbin suggests that, by understanding your role within
a particular team, you can develop your strengths and
manage your weaknesses as a team member, and so
improve how you contribute to the team.
 Team leaders and team development practitioners
often use the Belbin model to help create more
balanced teams.
 Teams can become unbalanced if all team members have similar
styles of behavior or team roles. If team members have similar
weaknesses, the team as a whole may tend to have that weakness. If
team members have similar team-work strengths, they may tend to
compete for the team tasks and responsibilities that best suit their
natural styles.
 Knowing this, you can use the model with your team to help ensure
that necessary team roles are covered, and that potential behavioral
tensions or weaknesses among the team member are addressed.
 Belbin identified nine team roles and he categorized those roles into three
groups: Action Oriented, People Oriented, and Thought Oriented. Each
team role is associated with typical behavioral and interpersonal
strengths.
 Belbin also defined characteristic weaknesses that tend to accompany
each team role. He called the characteristic weaknesses of team roles the
"allowable" weaknesses; as for any behavioral weakness, these are areas to
be aware of and potentially improve.
 Challenges the team to
Shaper
improve.
Action Oriented Roles Implementer Puts ideas into action.
Ensures thorough, timely
Completer Finisher
completion.
Coordinator Acts as a chairperson.

People Oriented Roles Team Worker Encourages cooperation.

Resource Investigator Explores outside opportunities.

Presents new ideas and
Plant
approaches.
Thought Oriented Roles Monitor-Evaluator Analyzes the options.

Specialist Provides specialized skills.

 Belbin’s team role identified are widely used in thousands of
organisations all over the world today.
 By identifying our team roles ,we can ensure that we “USE OUR
STRENGTHS TO ADVANTAGE AND THAT WE MANAGE OUR
WEAKNESS AS BEST WE CAN”.
You will be able to
 Identify why you prefer to do certain activities in teams and dislike
others.
 Establish whether other members of your team have the same
experience and feelings about roles.
 Be able to recruit a mix of team members for specific kinds of
projects and tasks.
 Manager should understand Belbin’s team role, because it gives a
structure to a goal or objective.
 Belbin’s team role will helpful in time management.
 It is also helpful in completing the work effectively.
 Understanding Belbin’s team role will improve the quality of a
manager.
 Belbin’s team role will helpful in balancing the team.
 The managers work is to pick a team that covers each team roles to
create and synergy amongst the team.
 It will help him in balancing the strength and weakness of the team
and increase the performance of the team.
 Knowledge of Belbin's Team Roles model can help you to identify
potential strengths and weaknesses within your team, overcome
conflict between your co-workers, and understand and appreciate
everyone's contributions.
 Here, we conclude that the Belbin’s team role is very useful for
organisations to achieve their goals.