What Belbin Team Roles Do I Best Fit Into?

Based on my self-assessment, I believe I fit into the following Belbin Roles.

Teamworker

Teamworker

Help the team to gel, using their versatility to identify the work required and complete it on behalf of the team.

  • Strengths: Co-operative, perceptive and diplomatic. Listens and averts friction.
  • Allowable weaknesses: Can be indecisive in crunch situations and tends to avoid confrontation.
  • Don't be surprised to find that: They might be hesitant to make unpopular decisions.
Plant

Plant

Tend to be highly creative and good at solving problems in unconventional ways.

  • Strengths: Creative, imaginative, free-thinking, generates ideas and solves difficult problems.
  • Allowable weaknesses: Might ignore incidentals, and may be too preoccupied to communicate effectively.
  • Don't be surprised to find that: They could be absent minded or forgetful.
Completer

Completer Finisher

Most effectively used at the end of tasks to polish and scrutinise the work for errors, subjecting it to the highest standards of quality control.

  • Strengths: Painstaking, conscientious, anxious. Searches out errors. Polishes and perfects.
  • Allowable weaknesses: Can be inclined to worry unduly, and reluctant to delegate.
  • Don't be surprised to find that: They could be accused of taking their perfectionism to extremes.
Written on October 6, 2016 | Tagged: Core Skills