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Belbin® Team Roles BELBIN® was developed by Dr R. Meredith Belbin, one of the world's leading experts on team building. All of our work conducted in this area is based on Dr Belbin's Team Role concepts and research. Various questionnaires are used to produce useful and unique behavioural based reports on individuals, teams and jobs. A team role as defined by Dr Meredith Belbin is: "A tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way." Belbin team roles describe a pattern of behaviour that characterises one person’s behaviour in relationship to another in facilitating the progress of a team. The value of Belbin team-role theory lies in enabling an individual or team to benefit from self-knowledge and adjust according to the demands being made by the external situation. How did the concept originate?During a period of over nine years, Meredith Belbin and his team of researchers based at Henley Management College, studied the behaviour of managers from all over the world. Managers taking part in the study were given a battery of psychometric tests and put into teams of varying composition, while they were engaged in a complex management exercise. Their different core personality traits, intellectual styles and behaviours were assessed during the exercise. As time progressed different clusters of behaviour were identified as underlying the success of the teams. These successful clusters of behaviour were then given names. Hence the emergence of the nine team roles that are used today. These are:
The interactions between an individual's natural preference to operate across these roles, is what the Belbin model helps us understand. Related Courses
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