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QUESTION 
Belbin's team roles
 
The following phrases and slogans project certain team roles: identify which. (Examples are drawn from 
Belbin, 1993.) 
(a) 
The small print is always worth reading. 
(b) 
Let's get down to the task in hand. 
(c) 
In this job you never stop learning. 
(d) 
Without continuous innovation, there is no survival. 
(e) 
Surely we can exploit that? 
(f) 
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. 
(g) 
I was very interested in your point of view. 
(h) 
Has anyone else got anything to add to this? 
(i) 
Decisions should not be based purely on enthusiasm. 
ANSWER 
(a) Completer-finisher 
(f) Shaper 
(b) Implementer/company 
worker (g) Teamworker 
(c) Specialist 
(h) Co-ordinator/chairman 
(d) Plant 
(i) Monitor-evaluator 
(e) Resource 
investigator 
 
Knowledge of these different roles may help you in leadership and management tasks under 
performance objective PO5, which requires you to demonstrate that you can ‘show initiative within 
your team, working towards organisational goals, collaborating with and supporting others.’
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PART D: LEADING AND MANAGING INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS 
 
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4.3 How do people contribute? 
Team members make different types of 
contribution
(eg proposing, supporting, blocking) in the areas of 
task performance 
and 
team maintenance
. 
In order to evaluate and manage team dynamics, it may be helpful for the team leader to:
 
(a) 
Assess who (if anybody) is performing each of Belbin's 
team roles
. Who is the team's plant? 
monitor-evaluator? and so on. There should be a mix of people performing task and team 
maintenance roles. 
(b) Analyse 
the