Building the perfect team

The aim
To appreciate the nine key team roles, and balance an effective team accordingly.


About the programme
Managers must understand that people bring more than their skills and experience to a team; they bring their personalities as well. Utilising people's behavioural strengths to create a balanced team adds immensely to both group and personal performance.
This programme dramatises Dr Meredith Belbin's team-role theory, and explains how to identify nine key team roles for a balanced team. In true-to-life scenarios, it shows that although each team member has a functional role they also have a team role and these are critical to the team's success. Each of the nine roles is defined and shown in action.
Using a clearly explained structure, Dr Belbin reveals how teams with fewer members may need people to perform dual roles. He shows how behavioural skills can be assessed and how, with care, teams can be constructed that take account of hierarchies as well as personal interaction.


The key outcomes
-Build and balance the most effective team
-Learn skills for team building, meetings and project management


Programme includes:
DVD (29 mins)
Course leader's guide
Delegate worksheets on disc
Powerpoint slides/OHPs on disc
Self-study workbook on disc


Information:
A Video Arts production in association with Belbin Associates featuring Barbara Flynn and Duncan Preston. Release date: 1991

Learning-chapters

• An introduction to building the perfect team
• Functional roles
• Team roles in action
• Displaying strengths without exposing weaknesses
• Dr Belbin's recommended team
• Measuring a person's team-role profile
• Non-desirable actions of a team-role
• Dr Belbin's attitude towards a person's weakness
• The importance of reporting relationships
• Summary