Belbin Team Inventory is used to gain insight into an individual\'s behavioral type. It assesses how an individual behaves in a team environment.

1. Belbin Team Inventory

2. Belbin Self-Perception Inventory
• Used to gain insight into an
individual's behavioral type.
• Assesses how an individual
behaves in a team
environment.
• Behavioral tool, subject to
change.
• Developed by Dr. Meredith
Belbin

3. How it works
• 360-degree feedback from observers
• Individual’s own assessment of their behavior
• Compare and contrast both views.

4. Belbin Self-Inventory
• Scores people on how strongly they express
traits from 9 different Team Roles.
• 1 Person may exhibit multiple Roles.
• Team Roles are NOT equivalent to Personality
Types

5. Role #1 : Plant
• Creative, unorthodox, and a
generator of ideas.
• Bright and free-thinking.

6. Popular caricature of absentminded
professor-inventor that often has a hard
time communicating ideas to others.

7. Role #2 : Resource Investigator

8. Role #2 : Resource Investigator
• Gives team rush of enthusiasm at the start of the
project
– Vigorously pursuing contacts and opportunities
– Focused outside the team
• Plant comes up with innovative ideas, Resource
Investigator steals ideas from others.
• A maker of possibilities and excellent networker
• Tendency to lose momentum towards the end
and forgets small details.

9. Role #3 : Coordinator

10. Role #3 : Coordinator
• Often default Chairperson of
a team
• Confident, stable and mature
• Very good at delegating tasks
to the right person
• Clarifies decisions, brings
team to focus on task
• Perceived as manipulative,
tends to delegate all work,
leaving nothing but the
delegating for them to do.

11. Role #4 : Shaper

12. Role #4 : Shaper
• Task focused leader who abounds in nervous
energy
• High motivation to achieve
• Winning is the name of the game
• Committed and “shapes” team to achieve
• Challenge, argue, or disagree and show
aggression in pursuit to achieve goals.
• 2-3 Shapers in a team leads to conflict.

13. Role #5 : Monitor Evaluator

14. Role #5 : Monitor Evaluator
• Fair and logical observers and judges what goes on
• Good at detaching themselves from bias
– See all available options with great clarity
• Take everything into account, move slowly and
analytically
• Almost always come to the right decision
• Become aggressively cynical, damp enthusiasm for
anything without logical grounds
• Have hard time inspiring themselves and others to be
passionate about their work.

15. Role #6 : Team Worker

16. Role #6 : Team Worker
The oil that keeps the machine going.
•
Good listeners and diplomats
•
Talented at soothing over conflict
•
Help parties understand each other without
•
becoming confrontational
• Beneficial effect not noticed until absent
• Unwilling to take sides
– May not be able to take decisive action when
needed

17. Role #7 : Implementer
• Turns ideas into positive action
• Efficient and self-disciplined
– Always relied on to deliver on
time
• Motivated by their loyalty to
team
– Often take on jobs everyone
avoids/dislikes
• Close-minded and inflexible
– Since they have difficulty
deviating from their own well-
thought-out plans.

18. Role #8 : Completer Finisher

19. Role #8 : Completer Finisher
• Perfectionist.
– Goes that extra-mile to make sure everything is RIGHT.
• Strong inward sense for accuracy
• Rarely needs encouragement
– Tries to live up to own high standards
• Frustrate their team mates
– Worry excessively over small details
– Refuse to delegate tasks that they don’t trust others
to do.

20. Role #9 : Specialist

21. Role #9 : Specialist
• Passionate about their own field
– Greatest Depth of knowledge
– Enjoy importing it to others
– Constantly improving their wisdom
• Find answers to anything they don’t know.
• High level of concentration ability
• Skill in their discipline to the team
• Only contribute on narrow front
– Uninterested in anything outside its narrow confines.

22. Team Roles
Plant
Resource Investigator
Shaper
Coordinator
Monitor Evaluator
Team Worker
Implementer
Completer Finisher
Specialist

23. Recommended Reads
• Official Website: http://belbin.com
• Belbin Leadership Role to Improve team
Effectiveness
– http://www.radford.edu/~kstevens2.jss.pdf
• Belbin Leadership Role to Improve team
Effectiveness: An Empirical Investigation
– http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleUR
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24. Credits
• Flickr.com, some photos
• Wikipedia.org, resource