What is a BELBIN Team Report? How does it help predict Team Performance?

Teamwork begins with discovering how teams work

Team building is not just a days outing, engaging in group activity, cheering up.  When teams get back to work experiencing the same old behaviors, teamwork remains a distant dream.  BELBIN speaking Teams are an exception.  Because, in a BELBIN Team, everyone knows their behavioral preferences as individuals and as a team.  They know how they can leverage behavioral diversity... to go beyond collaborating to complementing each other.  And their sponsors know it even before the team is formed!  Much like how an expert chef knows how to blend diverse diverse elements to make a perfect salad!  That's the power of a BELBIN Team Report. 

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What is a BELBIN Team Report?

Dr Meredith Belbin’s research showed that high performance teams have the right blend of all the nine Team Roles or behavioral contributions.  Imagine, for instance, a team full of creative people rich in ideas, and none of them strong in execution. Outcome? Performance will suffer.

Does that mean an ideal team needs nine people, each with one different dominant team role? No, that wouldn’t be necessary at all, because each team member can play more than one team role.

A BELBIN Team Report scans individual behaviors of team members and puts together their strengths and allowable weaknesses to predict the climate or chemistry the team will potentially experience.

The starting point is to have the BELBIN Individual Report done for all members in the team. The individual reports can then be processed together on the BELBIN Interplace System to generate a BELBIN Team Report.

Why a BELBIN Team Report?

• A collection of high performing individuals doesn’t always make a high performing team. A BELBIN Team Report can pinpoint why… even before the team is formed.
• Team Managers can find valuable insights that will help them flex and adapt their own leadership style, in steering the team, to maximize and synergise team role contributions of members.
• Team Members know who in the team is strong in areas where one may be weak. This fosters complementarity and respect for diversity, accelerating individual and team productivity.

When should I make a BELBIN Team Report?

A BELBIN Team Report can help you manage the following situations to best advantage:

• You are selecting members for a new team.
• You are inducting new members into an existing team
• You are having issues within a team that need to be resolved
• You want to raise the bar on team performance
• You want members of a team to complement one another, to jell, to respect others’ strengths and celebrate behavioral diversity

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