Belbin Profiling
Belbin is a world-renowned team development tool that identifies individuals' preferred roles within a team. Developed by Dr. Meredith Belbin, the model helps teams understand how members behave, contribute, and interact in group settings. By mapping out nine key team roles—from the creative Plant to the detail-focused Completer Finisher—Belbin offers a language to discuss strengths, potential gaps, and collaboration styles.
This framework is highly valuable for businesses seeking to balance team composition, optimise performance, and improve collaborative effectiveness.
Why Belbin is Powerful…
Strong teams don’t happen by accident—they’re built with insight. Belbin provides that insight. Whether you're forming a new team, restructuring, or seeking to develop leadership talent, Belbin is a strategic advantage.
Improved Team Composition:
By understanding team members' preferred roles, you can assemble teams with a more balanced set of skills and behavioural traits. This can lead to better problem-solving, innovation, and overall team effectiveness.
Enhanced Communication:
Belbin profiling helps team members understand each other's strengths and weaknesses. This understanding can lead to improved communication & collaboration, reducing conflicts and misunderstandings within the team.
Optimised Teamwork:
When individuals are placed in roles that align with their natural strengths, they are more likely to be engaged and perform at their best. This can lead to higher team morale and productivity.
Conflict Resolution:
Understanding each team member's preferred roles can help in resolving conflicts more effectively. Team members and leaders can work together to find solutions that play to each individual's strengths.
Effective Leadership:
Belbin profiling can also be used to identify leadership potential within a team. It helps companies identify individuals who are naturally inclined to take on leadership roles and develop their leadership skills further.
Belbin for your business
Individual Profile (with observers)
An individual Belbin report with observer assessment is a comprehensive report that offers deep insight into how a person behaves in a team setting. It combines the individual's own perception of their strengths and behaviours with feedback from colleagues or peers who have worked closely with them (the observers). This dual perspective provides a nuanced, evidence-based picture of someone’s team role preferences and how they are perceived in real-world interactions.
Combining self-assessment with observer input reduces the risk of self-serving bias and provides a grounded understanding of how one is actually contributing to a team.
Cost: £65
Team Report
The Belbin Team report assesses how a group of individuals will work together as a team. It details who might take on which work within the team, and where there may be gaps or overlaps in behavioural contributions. We may understand our own Belbin Team Role contributions, but this is of limited use if we don't share that information with others.
To build and cultivate great teams, team members need to understand, recognise and maximise the behavioural strengths of others, whilst managing and containing the associated weaknesses. Once you have completed the Self-Perception Inventory and received feedback from others, how can you transition from individual to team development?
Cost: £65
Job Profiling
A Belbin Job Report is a tool that helps define a job role in terms of the team role behaviours it requires — not just qualifications or skills. It’s used by line managers and recruiters to understand the behavioural demands of a role, offering a targeted, practical framework for identifying what kind of person is best suited for the job. The report includes practical guidance for both hiring managers and applicants or current role holders. This helps align expectations, supports targeted recruitment, and aids in onboarding or development planning.
We also provide feedback on suitability.
Cost: £125
Interactive Workshop.
Our interactive workshops are designed to translate Belbin theory into real-world impact. They provide a dynamic space for your team to understand their profiles, explore group dynamics, and apply insights immediately to improve communication, collaboration, and performance.
Workshop Objectives
Build a shared understanding of Belbin Team Roles
Discover individual and team strengths
Identify missing roles or potential clashes
Encourage open, constructive dialogue
Develop practical strategies for working more effectively together
Cost: from £750