BELBIN - A SELF-PERCEPTION INVENTORY Team Roles

TEAM ROLES FOR SELF PERCEPTION INVENTORY TYPE SYMBOL TYPICAL FEATURES POSITIVE QUALITIES ALLOWABLE WEAKNESS Organiser OR/Company worker Conservative, dutiful, predictable. Organising ability, practical common sense, hard working, self-disciplined. Lack of flexibility, unresponsiveness to proven ideas. Coordinator CO/Chairman Calm, self-confident, controlled. A capacity for treating and welcoming all potential contributors on their merits and without prejudice. A strong sense of objectives. No more than ordinary in terms of intellect or creative ability. Shaper SH Highly strung outgoing, dynamic. Drive and a readiness to challenge inertia, ineffectiveness, complacency or self-deception. Proneness to provocation, irritation and impatience. Innovator IN/Plant Individualistic, serious-minded, unorthodox. Genius, imagination, intellect, knowledge. Up in the clouds, inclined to disregard practical details or protocol. Resource Investigator RI Get around, find what is going on, meet people, and pose well thought-out questions. Extroverted, enthusiastic, curious, communicative. A capacity for contacting people and exploring anything new. An ability to respond to challenge. Is inhibited about finding out what he/she wants to know by making good use of other people. Liable to loose interest once the initial fascination has passed.
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Monitor - Evaluator EV Makes shrewd judgements that take all factors into account Sober, unemotional, prudent, has an build-in immunity for enthusiasm. Judgement discretion, hard-headedness, slow at making up his mind. Lacks inspiration or the ability to motivate others. Low achievement orientation Team Worker TW Socially orientated, rather mild, sensitive. An ability to respond to people and to situations and to promote team spirit. Have a lubricating effect on teams with increase morale and cooperation. Indecisiveness at moments of crisis. Completer - Finisher FR Painstaking, orderly, conscientious, anxious. A capacity for follow-through, perfectionism. A tendency to worry about small things. A reluctance to 'let go'.

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BELBIN - A SELF-PERCEPTION INVENTORY Team Roles in Outline

OR Organiser Turns concepts and plans into practical working procedures; and carries out agreed plans systematically and efficiently. CO Coordinator Controls the way in which a team moves towards the groups objectives by making the best use of team resources; recognises where the team's strengths and weaknesses lie and ensures that the best use is made of each team member's potential. SH Shaper Shapes the way in which team effort is applied; directs attention generally to the setting of objectives and priorities; and seeks to impose some shape or pattern on group discussion and on the outcome of group activities. IN Innovator Advances new ideas and strategies with special attention to major issues; and looks for possible breaks in approach to the problems with which the group is confronted. RI Resource Investigator Explores and reports on ideas, developments and resources outside the group; creates external contacts that may be useful to the team and conducts any subsequent negotiations. EV Evaluator Analyses problems; and evaluates ideas and suggestions so that the team is better placed to take balanced decisions. TW Team Worker Supports members in their strengths (eg. builds on suggestions); underpins members in their shortcomings; improves communications between members and fosters team spirit generally, FR Finisher Ensures that the team is protected as far as possible from mistakes of both commission and omission; actively searches for aspects of work which need a more than usual degree of attention; and maintains a sense of urgency within the team.

Note: All the roles are equally valuable - Just as in a football or rugby team.

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