Meredith Belbin (1926- )
British expert on management teams (pictured right).
Key book
The Management of Teams
(1981)
Successful teams must have the ability to effectively carry out eight roles:
1. Plant
Creative, imaginative and problem solver.
2. Resource investigator
Enthusiastic communicator and explorer of opportunities.
3. Co-ordinator
Chairperson, delegator and objective setter.
4. Shaper
Motivator and instigator of change.
5. Monitor evaluator
Identifier of options who objectively evaluates them.
6. Teamworker
Co-operative listener and promoter of team spirit.
7. Implementer
Conscientious organizer who turns ideas into action.
8. Completer
Anxious perfectionist who sees things through.
Belbin added a ninth role in a later book:
9. Specialist
Dedicated provider of knowledge and skills.
Key quote
It is not the individual but the team that is the instrument of sustained and enduring success in management
(from the foreword by the English management writer, Antony Jay)
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