People and Organization (P&O)

MANG6311 - Interactive Seminar

How far do you know yourself?!

“Belbin Team Roles”

Dr Ramesh Vahidi Week 3 - 21-22

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Preparation for Week 3 Sessions

- Read through the next few slides and the Beblin pdfs on the Bb. You could find these

under the Week 3 items in the Course Contents folder.

- Watch the videos on the next few slides.

- Decide which Belbin role(s) best define your behaviour, should you work in a team.

- There are no right or wrong/ good, better, best/ or bad, worse, worst in team roles!

- Come ready to the sessions for some good discussions!

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- A popular and very practical concept/tool helpful for knowing yourself and others is called Belbin Team Roles. This is specially used in the context of teamwork and will also help you to better understand how people work together. Students have been finding this very helpful in understanding each other, managing their team dynamics and analysing it over the years.

- You could watch the short clips/videos on the next slide for a quick understanding of Belbin in general and each Team Roles.

- Also review the very short pdf documents uploaded on the Bb for more on Belbin Team Roles. Have Beblin Roles Summary and Nutshell pdf files handy when we have the live session as you need to look at them during the session.

Belbin Team Roles Explained ....

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The Official Guide to Belbin Team Roles from Belbin HQ - What is Belbin?

An Overall Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFsA4wUf3I0

What Are Belbin Team Roles? More detailed intro and history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M0Al3Oi0-8

Belbin Team Roles Belbin Team Roles in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5oB8PhS64Q

Belbin Team Roles Video Scribe

Composition of team roles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-efhOLVgEvM (4:04 mins) (20 first seconds repetitive)

Watch These Short Videos before the Session

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Knowing Your Belbin Team Role(s)

- Now that you have watched the videos and have read the pdfs, you should have developed

enough understanding of the roles (more sources on the next slide).

- So, you should be able to identify at least one of your dominant Belbin Roles (with some extent of

confidence). This is the one, which you feel closer to when referring to your previous teamwork

experiences, your personal preferences or the examples when you worked with other people in

other settings.

- No worries if this feels difficult though as you will learn about yourself more in the future!

- At this stage of your life/career, the knowledge of such roles would help you observing, thinking,

reflecting and exploring on team behaviours of yourself and others.

- As we go, we will discuss many more subjects related to self-awareness and knowing others.

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To know more you could gradually read the followings, specially when working in teams:

- Boddy, D. (2014) Management: an introduction. 6th ed. Imprint: Harlow: Financial Times Prentice Hall. Chapter 17. [electronic resource]

- Or take a look at the official website of Belbin: https://www.belbin.com/ (Note: this is not an academic source. So, it should NOT be used as a reference in your coursework. This is only for your knowledge. For essays, you should read and reference books and papers.

Library Sources about Belbin ...