Meredith Belbin: The Belbin Team Roles Profile

The video explores Belbin's research on team roles, highlighting the importance of role diversity and team size for success. It explains the nine Belbin team roles, categorized into socially adept, task-focused, and cerebral roles. The video also discusses the flexibility of role preferences and the use of Belbin tools for team evaluation, emphasizing that these tools are not psychometric and should not be used for recruitment.

Discuss the importance of having a mix of roles within a team.

What are the implications of using Belbin Team Role Profiles for recruitment?

What are the potential challenges when interpreting the results of team role evaluations?

How can the findings from Belbin's research be applied to improve team performance?