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Scientifically Proven, Cost-Effective Team Development

Watch Your Team’s Performance Go from Average to Extraordinary with Belbin Team Roles

If you’re in human resources, this probably sounds familiar:

  • You’ve seen productive, effective teams—but you’ve seen far more teams flounder and fail, bogged down by poor communication and a lack of decisive action.
  • You’d like to give managers concrete tools to create effective teams consistently—and not leave a team’s performance up to chance.
  • You wish there was a way to predict which teams would be successful before they started working together.

We’ve been in your position—wondering what caused some teams to fail miserably and others to exceed expectations regularly. And after years of research and testing, we discovered the reason.

You’re Leaving Your Team Development Up to Chance

Chances are, if you have to assemble a team, you pick people according to common elements like knowledge and availability. But from a team-effectiveness perspective, that’s the equivalent of closing your eyes, rolling the dice and hoping for the best. Thankfully, there’s a better way.

If you want to predict and manage your team’s success, you have to go beyond individual experiences and talents. That’s because a team’s success is based on how its members interact with each other. And successful, productive interaction happens only when team members have a variety of team skills.

Successful Team Development Requires a Perfect Balance

Think of it this way: If you’re assembling a baseball team, you don’t draft nine center fielders. And you certainly don’t ask everyone to pitch. Instead, a successful baseball team incorporates a variety of roles, with everyone using their individual strengths and fulfilling different purposes—and with one common outcome: winning the game.

So how do you make sure your team has that winning combination of skills?

That’s where Belbin Team Roles can help.

Belbin Team Roles—Different Strengths, Measurable Results

Belbin Team Roles is a unique team development system with over 30 years’ tested and proven use in the UK and throughout the world. It’s based on the fact that people tend to favor particular ways of interacting and types of tasks when working in a group. Some might be more action-oriented. Others might be more comfortable networking with people.

We call these "Team Roles."

But Team Roles go far beyond simply establishing personal preferences. We focus on results—leveraging your Team Roles to create productive, energetic teams that meet and exceed expectations.

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