Team roles

The Belbin team roles are used to help create effective and balanced teams. Few individuals are strong in all of these roles, so ensuring you have a good mix on a team can make a real difference. It also needs to be noted that each role has its own strengths and weakness.

• Investigator: Communicator, explores opportunities
• Shaper: Dynamic, good under pressure
• Plant: Imaginative, problem solver
• Coordinator: Good team lead, delegates and focuses on goals
• Specialist: Self-starter, provides key skills
• Implementer: Reliable, turns ideas into action
• Completer: Seeks our errors and omissions, ensures delivered on time
• Monitor: Evaluates, ensures on track
• Team worker: Reliable, listens, builds and calms the team

Do your critical teams have these skills?