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Putting a Team Together

Team Roles

Building a Perfect Team

The perfect individual could be described as:

Hard-driving

Creative

Objective

Motivating

Diplomatic

Meticulous

Organised

Knowledgeable

Out-going

Finding all of these qualities in one person may be difficult!

Problems with Teams

Addressing the problem

• Investigate the issues
• Recognise what each member brings to the team and work to their strengths
• Objectives are:
• Discussed and agreed for the team
• Discussed and agreed for individuals
• Reviewed on a regular basis
• Revised when necessary

People at work have a ...

Functional Role

• job title and function
• experience and expertise

Team Role

• a tendency to behave, contribute and inter-relate with others in a particular way to meet agreed aims

Belbin Team Role Expert System

• Belbin - 9 team role types

• Each type has a typical behavioural strength and a characteristic weakness

• “Allowable weaknesses” are the negative side of the positive strength

Team Role Opposites

Action-oriented roles:

Shaper

Implementer

Completer Finisher

People-oriented roles:

Co-ordinator

Team worker

Resource investigator

cerebral roles:

Plant

Monitor Evaluator

Specialist

MONITOREVALUATOR - judges impartially

PLANT - theorises

CO-ORDINATOR - generalises

COMPLETERFINISHER - perfects established systems

SHAPER - drives

RESOURCE INVESTIGATOR - recognises opportunities

TEAMWORKER - supports

SPECIALIST - specifies

IMPLEMENTER - applies

TEAM-ROLE CONTRIBUTION

ALLOWABLE WEAKNESSES

PLANT: Creative, Solves difficult problems

Loses touch with everyday realities

RESOURCE INVESTIGATOR: Enterprising, Quick to explore options

Weak in follow through

CO-ORDINATOR: Makes good use of group activities

Manipulative

SHAPER: Driving and Challenging

Provocative, Aggressive

COMPLETER FINISHER: Painstaking, Conscientious

Anxious, Reluctant to delegate

TEAM WORKER: Co-operative, Averts fiction

Indecisive

MONITOR EVALUATOR: Discerning and Objective

Uninspiring, Slow moving

IMPLEMENTER: Disciplined, Efficient, Practical

Slow to see new possibilities

SPECIALIST: Single-minded, Professionally dedicated

Limited in Interests

Groups and Teams

TEAM

GROUP