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Belbin Team Building
The Belbin Team Roles (Team Types) Questionnaire is widely used today to help increase the ultimate performance of teams.
It is based on extensive research undertaken by Dr. Meredith Belbin at Henley Management College. During this research it became evident that teams comprising a balance of mixed team roles outperform teams without this balance.
At KSL Training, we run Belbin team building events for small and large sized teams to explain each of the nine Belbin Team Roles (Types) in an interactive and fun way, to help improve the team's overall performance and bring out learning conclusions about how team working can be improved further.
Client feedback from some of these events is provided below.
Belbin Team Roles Workshop
If you want your team to gain some initial insights into their preferred Team Roles and how that affects the way the team works, this is the team building event for you.
We can facilitate a Belbin Team Roles workshop in around 3 to 4 hours. As with all our team building events, we will design the right workshop for you and your team. However, to provide you with some idea of the type of team building event we can offer using the on-line Belbin Team Roles Questionnaire, we list an outline of an example workshop:
Team Roles Workshop Objectives:
The Belbin team building workshop will provide each team member with:
- A better understanding of each other, and their preferred team roles
- An opportunity to complete a series of tasks to achieve a team goal whilst utilising the strengths of all team members
Team Roles Workshop Outline:
- Defining teamwork: Shapes exercise and group discussion to define teamwork
- Understanding the characteristics of Belbin Team Roles: Overview presentation and discussion using famous people as examples of each team role
- Sharing your preferred Belbin Team Roles: Facilitated discussion with individual feedback
- Utilising Belbin Team Roles within the team: team challenge! A mix of small team building exercises to help aid the understanding of each of the nine Belbin Team Roles
The Belbin Team Roles Questionnaire:
As part of a facilitated team building event, we ask all participants to complete the online Belbin Team Roles Questionnaire to ensure accurate self insights can be conveyed on the day.
The online Belbin Team Roles Questionnaire takes about 20 minutes to complete with no right or wrong answers. The Belbin Questionnaire is designed to highlight the team role each team member takes within a team and the associated behaviours that they are likely to display with the role.
The questionnaire presents the participant with a choice of behaviours that are displayed within a team and the participant has to decide which behaviour best describes themselves whilst at work. Once the team member has completed the questionnaire, an automated report will be produced for self review.
The Belbin Team Roles Reports:
There are a number of options offered from the computer generated Belbin Team Roles profile reports which you may like to consider purchasing prior to your team building event. We list below some of the more popular reports but are happy to advise on other reports should these not suit your overall goal:
- Self Perception Inventory: As the name suggests, this report is compiled on the individual's perception of how they work within a team and their preferred clusters of behaviour.
- Self and Observer Assessment: This report is compiled based on the individual's self perception of how they work in a team along with up to six colleague's observations. Can be very helpful in raising individual's self awareness and self esteem when managed effectively.
- Team Report: This Belbin Team Roles report is very useful in helping the manager of the team understand the whole of the team dynamics and predicts how the team will work together. Ideal for using with a new team to help the manager identify the steps he/she may need to take to enhance the team's overall effectiveness.
- Counselling Report: This is an ideal report for managers wanting to receive feedback and advice on adopting the most appropriate management style that will best fit with their team role strengths and allowable weaknesses. The report is based on the participant's top two preferred team roles.
Client Feedback
As a new member of the team I found this to be a very interesting experience as well as a fantastic way to get to know people.
Susie French, Key Account Relationship Manager
Chartered Insurance Institute
Excellent. I learned so much and have renewed faith in the work we as a team are doing at INUF. I think this format is the best I have come across in training for a long time. Kim is very relaxed but spurs the mind also.
Ambra Joseph, Advocacy Support Worker
INUF
The Belbin team building workshop was a lot of fun, but worthwhile in terms of understanding my own strengths working within a team.
Susan Divall
Chartered Insurance Institute
