Key Management Models, 3rd Edition

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Team roles (Belbin)

The big picture

Belbin (1985) distinguishes nine complementary roles of successful business teams that can be classified as follows:

People-orientated roles	Cerebral roles	Action-orientated roles
1. Coordinator	4. ‘Plant’/creator/inventor	7. Shaper
2. Team worker	5. Monitor/evaluator	8. Implementer
3. Resource investigator	6. Specialist	9. Finisher

1. The coordinator is a mature and confident person. He or she probably brings experience as a chairperson or leader of some kind to the table. Coordinators clarify goals, encourage decision-making and delegate tasks, but can, however, be manipulative or bossy, especially when they ...