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Team
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Tracks - Team Building That Works
Team Building,
Team Roles and Team Dynamics with Dr Marriott
"What is needed is not well balanced individuals; but individuals
who balance well with each other." - Dr Merideth Belbin
Dr David Marriott, internationally renowned corporate psychologist
and expert in team and management development, shares some thoughts
on the famous Belbin Model and it's relevance for teams into the
next century.
In my experience there are few organisations in any field of work
where the major decisions are made by one person. Rather the running
of any successful operation necessitates the collaboration of a
team of people from different backgrounds and with unique personality
and thinking styles, who interact as peers, pooling their ideas,
judgement and plans.
The success of their endeavours hinges on the behaviour, talents,
balance and cohesion of this management team. The work of Dr Meredith
Belbin is a significant contribution to our understanding of how
human organisations work, and how to make them work better. Over
a seven year period a team of psychologists, under his direction,
assessed individual managers from all over the world. Their different
personality traits, intellectual abilities and behaviour during
a variety of management assignments were carefully evaluated.
Results of this research showed that there are a finite number of
Management Styles or Team Roles, and that these Team Roles comprise
certain patterns of related behaviour which can be adopted naturally
by the various personality types found in organisations. The accurate
delineation of these Team Roles is critical to the study of management
team effectiveness.
There are two important elements in Belbin's analysis. The first
is the recognition that human strengths usually bring countervailing
weaknesses. The second is that some combinations of these roles
have a greater probability of team success than others. Some achieve
complimentary productivity where others are likely to result in
intra group competition.
Many of us have seen that "Nobody's Perfect - But A Team Can
Be" and we have seen a team produce a quality and quantity
of work far higher than the sum of what the separate members could
have produced on their own. It follows that in organisations where
priority is given to the selection, training and development of
teams, to their psychology, motivation and composition, these organisations
will out - perform those in which teams are composed merely according
to the functional roles that are needed.
The people in an organisation are its most important resource. Reliable,
wide ranging information about their behaviour will be the key to
successful enterprise leadership in the 21st century.
Using the Belbin model with it's nine different patterns of behaviour
provides an excellent means of assessing and predicting both individual
and team performance, building perfect teams and a means of matching
people to people and people to jobs.
If you need
to contact a company in the UK that facilitates work with the Belbin
model click here
Dr David Marriott is an expert in the work of Dr Belbin and has
collaborated with him for many years.
www.belbin.com
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