Instruments for teamwork

[Lillian Jeter]

Re: [OSLIST] Instruments for teamworkThanks Mayke.
It has been interesting reading all of the different views on Belbin.
I also teach organization policies and principles to future criminal justice
candidates.   Where could I find a copy of Belbin to utilize in a group
setting in class?

Lillian Jeter
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Hi Ester,
we have used Belbin for a couple of years! There is different ways of
working with you:
1. You can introduce the roles. We always explain the roles, looking at a
whole work process: creating ideas, evaluating ideas, planning things,
putting things into action, evaluating the outcome, improving... The
specialist role has been "created" after the initial roles - so it does not
really fit in the work process, but is obviousy needed.
According to your explanations, the participants explore which roles they
prefer...
With respect to dealing with differences in groups, it makes sense to focus
on the strength each role contributes. These strengths are tied to
weaknesses and you can only get the "package", so the people start looking
at the benefifs of having, for example, a creative inventor in their team
and stop complaining about the chaotic side of the person!

2. Another option would be that the participants fill in the questionnaire
and then - after explaining the roles - you look at the results with respect
to the team (Do we have all roles in the team? What is missing? What are the
effects of that?) and to the individual.

What I find important that the people fill in the questionnaire with a
certain team situation in the back of their mind. That way, their role is
situational and the idea, that you may have different roles in different
teams, gets across.

3. A third option is to give written explanations to the participants, and
have them come up with strength and weaknesses, popular examples.

4. I heard someone introduced the roles by using start trek - supposedly you
have all the roles in it! Since I am not a star trek freak, I have not used
the approach.

5. What I have also seen before is a combination of Belbin and Riemann's
dimensions of fear (I only know it in German - so I do not know whether it
is known in the English-speaking world). The dimensions are distance -
closeness and change - continuity (process) and in those four quadrants they
have allocated the Belbin roles.

It would take me tto long to explain everything in written form. My
suggestion is that you give me a call and I can explain what I know on the
phone. That is, of course, an offer for others as well!

I hope these ideas are helpful!
Greetings from Germany,

Mayke
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  Masud:

  How would you approach using Belbin with a team?


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