Belbin Team Roles

Belbin Team Roles

1. Resource Investigator

   • Uses their inquisitive nature to find ideas to bring back to the team.
     • Strengths: Outgoing, enthusiastic. Explores opportunities and develops contacts.
     • Allowable weaknesses: Might be over-optimistic, and can lose interest once the initial enthusiasm has passed.

2. Team Worker

   • Helps 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.

3. Co-ordinator

   • Needed to focus on the team's objectives, draw out team members and delegate work appropriately.
     • Strengths: Mature, confident, identifies talent. Clarifies goals.
     • Allowable weaknesses: Can be seen as manipulative and might offload their own share of the work.

4. Plant

   • Tends 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.

5. Monitor Evaluator

   • Provides a logical eye, making impartial judgements where required and weighs up the team's options in a dispassionate way.
     • Strengths: Sober, strategic and discerning. Sees all options and judges accurately.
     • Allowable weaknesses: Sometimes lacks the drive and ability to inspire others and can be overly critical.

6. Specialist

   • Brings in-depth knowledge of a key area to the team.
     • Strengths: Single-minded, self-starting and dedicated. They provide specialist knowledge and skills.
     • Allowable weaknesses: Tends to contribute on a narrow front and can dwell on the technicalities.

7. Shaper

   • Provides the necessary drive to ensure that the team keeps moving and does not lose focus or momentum.
     • Strengths: Challenging, dynamic, thrives on pressure. Has the drive and courage to overcome obstacles.
       • Allowable weaknesses: Can be prone to provocation, and may sometimes offend people's feelings.

8. Implementer

   • Needed to plan a workable strategy and carry it out as efficiently as possible.
     • Strengths: Practical, reliable, efficient. Turns ideas into actions and organises work that needs to be done.
       • Allowable weaknesses: Can be a bit inflexible and slow to respond to new possibilities.

9. 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.

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