Belbin Individual Team Role Report

Belbin Individual Team Role Report

Belbin Individual Team Role Report

Sizhe Mo

Belbin Individual Team Role Report

SPI completion date: 6th February 2022

Observer completion date: 23rd March 2022

Number of Observers: 4

Loughborough University London

21LLP008 – Collaborative Project Module

Team Role Descriptions

Belbin has identified nine diferent clusters of behaviour that are efective in enabling team progress. Each Team Role has strengths (the contribution made by playing that role) and weaknesses – behaviours which facilitate those strengths. Weaknesses are termed ‘allowable’ if the individual shows the corresponding strength, and if they do not detract from the contribution overall. It’s usual to have a few preferred Team Roles, and to display both strengths and weaknesses for those roles.

Co-operative, perceptive and diplomatic.               Mature, confident, identifies talent. Clarifies

Listens and averts friction.                                                                                                                                                                                goals. Delegates efectively.

contacts. Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Over-optimistic. Loses interest once initial enthusiasm has passed.

Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Indecisive in crunch situations. Avoids confrontation.

Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Can be seen as manipulative. Ofloads own share of the work.

Creative, imaginative, free-thinking.                         Sober, strategic and discerning. Sees all                         Single-minded, self-starting, dedicated.

Generates ideas and solves dificult problems. Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Ignores incidentals. Too pre-occupied to communicate efectively.

options and judges accurately. Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Lacks drive and ability to inspire others. Can be overly critical.

Provides knowledge and skills in rare supply. Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Contributes only on a narrow front. Dwells on technicalities.

 

obstacles.

Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Prone to provocation. Ofends people’s feelings.

done. Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Somewhat inflexible. Slow to respond to new possibilities.

Painstaking, conscientious, anxious. Searches out errors. Polishes and perfects. Associated/Allowable Weaknesses: Inclined to worry unduly. Reluctant to delegate.

 

Your Team Role Preferences

your Self-Perception only

Sizhe, from your own perspective, Resource Investigator and Co-ordinator are your top contributions.

●   This graph shows your percentile scores for each Tea Role, according to your responses to the Self-Perception Inventory. ●   Team Roles are divided by percentile score into Preferred, Manageable and Least Preferred Roles.

You feel you are a social person and are best deployed in liaison work and in the development of others. You like to facilitate communication both within and outside the team.

 

What Others See

4 Observer Assessments

●   This bar chart shows your Observers’ responses broken down into the strengths and associated weaknesses fo each Team Role. ●   An associated weakness is termed ‘allowable’ if outweighed by the strengths for the relevant Team Rol Please see Glossary of Terms for more detail.
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Sizhe, you asked 4 people (your ‘Observers’) for feedback. They see your top two Team Roles as Co-ordinator and Resource Investigator.

They identified that you possess the following                Associated Weaknesses   Strengths characteristics: inquisitive, encouraging of others, free-thinking, competitive, outgoing and confident and relaxed.

75	68
59	71
34	62
38	58
52	39
23	45
48	17
27	32
40	22

The table on the lef and the graph on the right show your percentile scores for each Tea Role, comparing your preferences against the combined perceptions of your Observers.
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You see yourself as someone who is enthusiastic and optimistic, and who can develop contacts outside the immediate group.

Others agree. However, they also see your ability to understand what needs to be done and to organise others when appropriate.

What do your Observers agree on? They see that you are good at asking the right questions, give confidence to those around you and maintain your independence of thought.

Self-Perception              Observations

(SPI)                                 (Obs)

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Comparing Self and Observer Perceptions

Team Role Feedback

Combining your view with the views of others, your main contributions are: Resource Investigator and Co-ordinator

You are someone who is well-placed to help develop opportunities by meeting people and finding out what is

and progress by using all resources at your disposal – including other team members – and by using your social

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going on in other places. Within the organisation, you are   skills to encourage and enthuse others. likely to take a leading role in helping employees to

You seem to have some sparks of creativity and originality

contribute as fully as their capabilities allow to the which may need coaxing into the limelight. When faced with a

achievement of the overall objectives. Your ability to challenge, take the opportunity to move apart from the

communicate efectively is your greatest strength.

team’s thinking and discussions and allow yourself to If you encounter problems, it could be because you allow                     approach the problem from a fresh perspective. When coming enthusiasm and optimism to run away with you, without a               up with solutions, allow others to evaluate them. In this way, reality check. There is a further risk that, in your desire to you can begin to establish yourself as someone who is communicate, you are inclined to talk too much and neglect     capable of original thinking but who is not carried away by the significance of silence on the part of others which can      his/her own ideas. hide unexpressed opposition. Once you realise this, there is

On a final note, you need to take account of the role for which

every prospect that you will deal with the matter very you are least suited. You do not appear to have the

efectively. characteristics of someone who attends to the details which On the whole, you will be happiest working with those who           can make or break a project. If you can work in harmony with interact freely and without reservation, allowing you to      someone who has these complementary qualities, your own develop ideas. With you as a manager, any team should grow            performance is likely to benefit.

to become greater than its individual parts with each individual contributing and communicating efectively. You would work best for a manager who acts as a grounded adviser, ofering a cautionary approach to new ventures and helping you towards the best decisions when you are faced with a large number of options.

Your working style should be one of facilitating innovation

 

Placement Suggestions

Announce your strengths. You are likely to: ●   enjoy work where you can use your outgoing nature and personal initiative. ●   maintain a broad overview while leaving the details to others. ●   draw out contributions from others and make the best use of the talent within a team. Be aware of your weaknesses. You may: ●   be seen as uninterested in getting involved in the details of a subject.

Work Environment

You’re likely to be well suited to a role where skills in liaison work are at a premium. You might thrive in a job where contacts need to be developed and maintained – you could do well in situations where close links are lacking or have not long been established. You are likely to struggle if given too much work that isolates you from others.

Others see that you would be suited to:

• finding out information from people.
• giving confidence to others.
• work where there is a need for independent thought.

Presenting Yourself

• Let others see your enthusiasm and willingness to be proactive. Not everyone possesses your positive approach.
• State that you are happy to reach out to others and will use your outgoing nature in exploring possibilities.
• In your case, you may have to prove to others that your natural enthusiasm will not lead to boredom afer a while. Show that you can follow through.
• Point out that you are happy to organise others and lead discussion when required.
• Ensure people know that you have an interest in spotting others’ talents and motivating people.
• However, don’t try and control every situation you are in, as it is not always appropriate.

Suggested Work Styles

Sizhe, overall your top Team Roles are Resource Investigator, Co-ordinator, Plant and Implementer. Here are some suggestions of how to articulate your working styles based on diferent combinations of these four Team Roles.

RI                            CO Facilitating “Networking and enabling people to interact more efectively are what I do best.”

RI                             PL Innovating “I thrive in situations where I can advocate an entirely new approach.”

RI                           IMP Applying Resources “Meeting people and getting things done are my strengths.”

CO                            PL Piloting “I relish taking responsibility for promoting new routes.”

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Resource Investigator                   Teamworker                        Co-ordinator                                Plant                           Monitor Evaluator                                                              Specialist                                Shaper                              Implementer                   Completer Finisher

Team Roles in a Ranked Order

1                 2                 3                 4                  5                  6                                                                                                                          7                 8                  9

Self-Perception

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Observers:

Runmiao Huang

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Zhiyuan Luo

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Haoxiang Chen

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Guanyu Mao

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Observers’ Overall Views

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Your Overall Team Role Composition

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This page provides an overview of Team Roles as seen by yourself and your Observers. These are displayed from your highest (1) to your lowest (9). If the Observer in question did not observe any of a given Team Role behaviour, there will be a blank. Your overall Team Role composition is a combination of Self and Observer responses. It is based on a complex formula and not a straightforward average of the totals.

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Resource Investigator                   Teamworker                        Co-ordinator                                Plant                           Monitor Evaluator                                                              Specialist                                Shaper                              Implementer                   Completer Finisher

 

List of Observer Responses

4 Observer Assessments

Here is a complete list of the words and phrases your Observers chose from the Observer Assessment in descending order. Words for associated weaknesses shown in italics.

inquisitive  5 encouraging of others  5 free-thinking  4 competitive  4 outgoing  4 confident and relaxed  4 conscious of priorities  4 enterprising  3 outspoken  3 corrects errors  3 realistic  3 willing to adapt  3 practical  3 reliable  3 uninvolved with specifics  2 original  2 inventive  2

persuasive  2 challenging  2 creative  2 keen to impart expertise  2 diplomatic  2 disciplined  2 eficient  2 analytical  2 inconsistent  1 eccentric  1 procrastinating  1 unadventurous  1 indecisive  1 over-talkative  1 fussy  1 pushy  1 impulsive  1

fearful of conflict  1 tough  1 impartial  1 studious  1 meticulous  1 hard-driving  1 perceptive  1 broad in outlook  1 methodical  1 consultative  1 logical  1 dedicated to subject  1 helpful  1 unenthusiastic  0 oblivious  0 over-delegating  0 manipulative  0

inflexible  0 absent-minded  0 resistant to change  0 reluctant to allocate work  0 over-sensitive  0 confrontational  0 sceptical  0 territorial  0 shrewd  0 impatient  0 frightened of failure  0 perfectionist  0 seizes opportunities  0 persevering  0 self-reliant  0 motivated by learning  0 accurate  0

imaginative                                                  2            engrossed in own area                             1                                                      restricted in outlook              0                                           caring            0

RI                                           TW                                         CO                                           PL                                           ME                    SP                                           SH                                        IMP                                         CF

 

Self-Perception Inventory (SPI)

The Self-Perception Inventory is the questionnaire an individual completes to ascertain their Team Roles. The questionnaire consists of eight sections, with each section containing ten items. The individual is asked to allocate ten marks per section to those statements which best reflect their working styles.

Observer Assessment (OA)

The Observer Assessment is the questionnaire completed by people who know the Self-Perception candidate well. We recommend that observers are chosen from among those who have worked with the individual closely and recently and within the same context (e.g. within the same team), since Team Role behaviours can change over time and in diferent situations.

Team Role Strength

These are the positive characteristics or behaviours associated with a particular Team Role.

Team Role Weakness

A Team Role weakness is a weakness which tends to accompany a particular Team Role strength, and is the flipside or ‘trade-of’ for that strength. If someone’s strength outweighs their weakness for a given Team Role, and the weakness does not detract from the contribution, it is called an ‘allowable weakness’. Weaknesses become ‘non-allowable’ if taken to an extreme, or if the associated Team Role strength is not present.

Glossary of Terms

Percentiles

A percentile is a way of measuring your position in relation to others (the rest of the population). If a group of people take a test and receive scores, these can be distributed from highest to lowest and an individual’s score can be judged in relation to the scores of others. If a person’s score is in the 80th percentile, this indicates that 20% of people have scored more highly for this measure.

Strong Example of a Team Role

A Strong Example is someone who appears to play a particular Team Role to especially good efect. To qualify as a Strong Example of a particular Team Role, someone needs to be in the 80th percentile for that Team Role according to their Self-Perception. Once Observer

 

Assessments are added, Observer feedback is also taken into account to determine whether or not someone qualifies as a Strong Example.

RI                                           TW                                         CO                                           PL                                           ME                                                SP                                          SH                                         IMP                                          CF