A Guide to Belbin Team Roles: How to increase personal and team performance

by Max Isaac, Kevin Carson

Most managers have been taught to put together a team based primarily on people's knowledge about the process or problem being studied. This single-dimensional approach unintentionally sets up a lot of teams for failure because they have the wrong mix of personal styles and skills. Likewise, it puts individual team members in a position where they often cannot play to their strengths. The result is mediocre teams at best. To reverse this trend, Max Isaac and Kevin Carson have drawn on their many years of experience and the pioneering research of Meredith Belbin to develop practical guidelines for creating consistently successful teams. This handbook explains Belbin's theory about team composition, shows how it applies when selecting team members, and demonstrates how it helps people become more personally successful in the workplace.

Genres: Leadership

78 pages, Paperback

Published February 7, 2016

About the author

Max Isaac is the CEO of 3Circle Partners. He brings a depth of knowledge and experience from his career in general management and consulting in North America, England, Europe and Asia. Max has assisted CEOs and senior leaders within client organizations with the design and implementation of Interaction Planning processes, team based organizational development programs, and Lean Six Sigma initiatives.

Prior to his work in the field of organizational development, Max was the CFO for the Retail Division within the Molson Organization, where he took a lead role in growing the business to over $1 billion in revenues, doubling its size in 4 years through acquisitions and internal growth.

Max is co-author of "Close the Interaction Gap," "The Third Circle - Interactions That Drive Results," "Setting Teams Up for Success," and "A Guide to Team Roles." He is also the contributing author of the Organizational Change sections of Mike George's books "Lean Six Sigma" and "Lean Six Sigma for Service."

Max is a registered CPA, CA. in Canada. His undergraduate degree was earned at Witwatersrand University, South Africa.

Reviews

[Mind the Book · Rating 4 out of 5]

Den som någon gång studerat teamets och gruppens psykologi har säkert kommit i kontakt med Meredith Belbins forskning om roller, att en är Shaper, en är Implementer, Resource Investigator etc.

Beställde tidigare i år från stor nätbokhandel, befarade illa redigerat print-on-demand-häfte i wordformat, men det är mer som en riktig liten bok. Tycker om att läsa sakprosesammanställningar över en teori så här i bokform. Många exempel och ett par fallstudier ingår också.

[Chandan · Rating 5 out of 5]

High Level Overview of Belbins Team role Model for creating High Performance Teams

I read this book after attending Belbin training. This book summarises everything about Teamroles in an eloquent manner without Overwhelming you. Understanding the phenotypes of behaviours to this extent is eye opening.

[Nosiphiwo · Rating 3 out of 5]

It offers less than what I expected

It offers less than what I expected. It does not provide an in-depth guide into how one determines the roles.

[Your favorite troll · Rating 4 out of 5]

A books about enemies to lovers. Would recommend.