Posts Tagged ‘team-performance’

1. Xerox: Using Belbin to Improve Overall Efficiencies

   For the last five years, Xerox has been using Belbin Team Role Theory as a critical component of their Lean Six Sigma strategy. Through the Belbin component of 3Circle Partners Team Accelerator Workshops, team members have been learning how to identify individuals’ strengths and weaknesses in order to create highly effective teams.

   Posted on Friday, September 25 2009 by Max Isaac

2. The Limitations of Belbin

   We know that Belbin can help to improve team performance. But can one use Belbin Team Role Theory in all situations?

   Posted on Tuesday, August 11 2009 by Max Isaac

3. Team Tactics at the Tour de France

   As I write this, the riders in the Tour de France cycling race are climbing the last big mountain of the race: Mont Ventoux. There has been a very interesting team dynamic within the Astana team. The team has two contenders for the overall race winner: Lance Armstrong, and Alberto Contador.

   Posted on Saturday, July 25 2009 by Max Isaac

4. Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and Belbin Team Roles

   Many organizations use more that one assessment tool to help develop self-awareness and increase team performance. The Belbin Team Role Assessment is one such tool. One of the most common instruments we run into in our client organizations is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The MBTI is an assessment based on a questionnaire designed to measure personality differences in people.

   Posted on Tuesday, July 7 2009 by Max Isaac

5. The Must-Read Team- and Personal-Development Books for Summer

   I’d like to share some of my favorite books from my bookshelf. These are some of the books that have influenced my thinking about building and managing teams, and allowing for the best possible learning within an organization.

   Posted on Monday, July 6 2009 by Max Isaac

6. The Top 5 Reasons Why Smart Teams Fail

   Over and over again, we see smart teams making the same mistakes. Now you can learn from our experience to maximize your team’s performance by avoiding the top five mistakes that cause teams to fail.

   Posted on Monday, June 15 2009 by Max Isaac

7. Beam Me Up, Belbin: Star Trek & Team Roles

   I went to see the new Star Trek movie last weekend, and was delighted to find such prime examples of the nine team roles!

   Posted on Wednesday, June 10 2009 by Max Isaac

8. Conflict Management: Using Team Mapping

   In our last post, we analyzed Team Grid’s Team Map. This workshop team was very strong on the people-oriented roles: Resource Investigator, Coordinator, and Teamworker. Of course, this isn’t how the roles always fall amongst team members. Nine different team roles create an almost infinite number of possibilities for a team’s makeup.

   Posted on Tuesday, June 9 2009 by Max Isaac

9. Analyzing Team Maps in Action!

   Featured here is “Team Grid”, a workshop team from a 2-day workshop at the E&J Gallo Winery in Modesto, California.

   Posted on Wednesday, June 3 2009 by Max Isaac

10. The Secret of Predicting Team Performance

    In these tough economic times, we all need to know that our limited training dollars are going towards something that really works.

    Posted on Thursday, May 21 2009 by Max Isaac