Belbin team roles Training Module DOING IT TOGETHER? This material has been produced within PAPYRUS project, co-funded by the British Council within ERASMUS+ Programme.

Belbin team roles Dr Raymond Meredith Belbin (1924-), British management theorist known for researching into (9) team work roles; In 1981 book Management Teams presented conclusions from his work studying how members of teams interacted Key conclusions: effective team has members that cover eight (later nine) key roles in managing the team and how it carries out its work. Some roles are can be easily fulfilled by the same person; some are less compatible and are likely to be done well by people with different behavioral clusters. This means that a team need not be as many as nine people, but perhaps should be at least three or four.

Belbin team roles " I think we've always been striving to find a way of helping people to work together. When people work in effective combinations they achieve so much more than when they're working alone. But to do that we need a language, and it needs to be a language which is shared and enables people to communicate with one another....“ Dr Meredith Belbin

Belbin team roles The 9 key team roles are: Now, lets find out who are you on a team... Resource Investigator Teamworker Co-ordinator Plant Monitor Evaluator Specialist Shaper Implementer Completer Finisher