Maximizing Your Strengths Using a Belbin Report The Belbin Team Role model describes different sets of skills that help people and groups succeed. Getting a report on their Team Role strengths and weaknesses helps people understand how to increase their personal effectiveness when working alone or with groups of any size. This webinar is designed for those new to the Belbin methodology. Max Isaac will provide a brief history and overview of the Team Role model, walk through a sample Belbin report, and provide examples of how people have used the reports to maximize their collaborative skills and achieve their professional goals. belbin.improvingteams.com

1. Maximizing Your Strengths
Using a Belbin Report

2. Meet Max Isaac
CEO of
Belbin Expert
30+ years of consulting with
business leaders worldwide
Co-author of:
 Close the Interaction Gap
 The Third Circle –
Interactions That Drive Results
 Setting Teams Up for Success
 A Guide to Team Roles

3. Objectives
Understand the
Belbin Team
Role
Methodology
Know how to
read and
interpret
a Team Role
Report
Gain insight
and practical
knowledge of
how to use the
report to
improve your
individual
performance

4. How a Team Role Report
Can Help You
Self-
Mastery
Self-
Management
Self-
Awareness
Can’t get
here
Unless you
start here

5. The Nine Team Roles
Allowable Weakness
Preoccupied.
Overly critical. Slow moving.
Narrow focus.
Offends people's feelings.
Possibly inflexible.
Reluctant to delegate.
Avoids confrontation.
Over-optimistic.
Can be manipulative.
Has drive to overcome obstacles.
Turns ideas into actions and organizes tasks.
Finds errors. Polishes and perfects.
Listens and averts friction.
Explores opportunities, develops contacts.
Clarifies goals. Delegates effectively.
Team Role Contribution
Generates ideas & solves hard problems.
Sees all options and judges accurately.
Provides rare knowledge and skills.
Action
SHShaper
IMPImplementer
CFCompleter Finisher
People
TWTeam Worker
RIResource Investigator
COCoordinator
Thinking
PLPlant
MEMonitor Evaluator
SPSpecialist

7. Analysis of your
Team Role Composition
The overall rank order on the bottom line represents the combination of the
Self-Perception and the total of the Observers’ input.
ExampleReport
Jane Crow
John Low
Sue Jones
Hue Smith
Jack Payne

8. Belbin’s View
Natural or
preferred roles
Manageable
roles
Least preferred
roles

9. Look for big
differences
between
self-ratings
and observer
ratings.
Comparing
Self and
Observer
Perceptions

10. Hidden strengths - strengths that people don’t recognize in
themselves - are potential assets that are going to waste
A Ferrari in My Garage?

11. What about the other difference?
ExampleReport
You rated
yourself high,
but your
observers
rated you
much lower

12. or a FAKE Ferrari?

14. Importance
of
Coherence
Coherence =
How well YOUR
ratings match those
of your observers
High coherence means
you are more self-aware
and effectively working
with others (playing to
your true strengths).
Perfect alignment is
impossible.

15. Live Poll
Look at p. 5 (Comparing Self and Observer Perceptions) in your own report.
How many of you have a true Ferrari, how many
have a fake Ferrari, and how many are well
matched for all ratings?
I have a true Ferrari-in-my-garage
I have a fake Ferrari
My assessments match those of my observers
True Ferrari: Observer rating is 30 points or more higher than self-rating.
Fake Ferrari: Self-rating is 30 points or more higher than observer ratings.

16. Your
Team Role
Preferences
In this example, the
person feels they excel
at three roles (RI, CO,
TW), and have little
aptitude for four roles
(SH, ME, IMP, CF).
E x a m p l e R e p o r t

17. Observed Team Role
Strengths and Weaknesses
• Weaknesses are to be
expected, especially on the
strongest roles.
• They are allowable as long
as they do not become too
extreme.

18. List of Observer
Responses
This is the complete list
of words your observers
could choose from to
describe your behavior.
All words line up to a
specific role as either a
strength or associated
weakness (italicized).
Maximum score
= 2 x number
of observers
ExampleReport
Impulsive is
one of the
allowable
weaknesses
associated
with the Role
of RI

19. Observed Team Role
Strengths & Weaknesses

20. List of Observer
Responses
This is the complete list
of words your observers
could choose from to
describe your behavior.
All words line up to a
specific role as either a
strength or associated
weakness (italicized).
Maximum score
= 2 x number
of observers
ExampleReport

22. What can you do with the information?
The next three pages of the report help you decide
how to act on the ratings you received.

23. Team Role
Feedback
E x a m p l e R e p o r t
• The data on this
page is based on
common themes
for people who
have a similar
pattern of Team
Role strengths &
weaknesses.

26. Based on your
top four roles.
Shows how to
use them in
different
combinations
for different
situations.

27. • This report will help you rely less on intuition
and be more purposeful and intentional.
• Be more aware of your strengths and
weaknesses.
• Telegraph your strengths to others.
• Develop a strategic plan for your interaction
skills.

29. Plant Fred

30. • Contact us by May 6th
and receive a 40%
discount on up to
10 Belbin Reports
• Receive a 1-hour
personal coaching
session. 25% discount
until May 6th.

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Any questions on High Performance Teams
and Belbin Team Roles?
Please email me:
Max
info@3circlepartners.com

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