Belbin (2010)’S Team Role Theory Reflective

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Belbin (2010)’s Team Role Theory identifies people’s behavioural strengths and weakness in the workplace. The nine team roles identified by Belbin (2010) suggest that a balance between these roles is key in getting the team successfully from start to finish and that there are allowable weaknesses within each team role because of outweighed strength it provides. The roles include; 1. Plants 2. Resource Investigators 3. Monitor Evaluators 4. Coordinators 5. Implementers 6. Completers 7. Teamworkers 8. Shapers 9. Specialists The group work began during the first meeting in which I took initiative and ask each team member to research a film and present it to the group, the chosen film was “300” and was chosen based on a set criteria of characters effectiveness as managers and the films relevancy to concepts in business/management literature. In week two the group watched the film and I delegated each member to research theories relating to management behaviour in action. In week three the theories were presented and voted by team members’ bases on the quality, relevancy and applicability of the theory to the film. We finally came to a conclusion to use Skills based leadership approach encompassing two theories by Mumford, et al.(2000) and Katz(1995). A storyboard was also drafted in the meeting and I delegated task to each team member to research and began creating their PowerPoint slides. Using Facebook’s “groups” as a online communication tool, I regularly updated the teams with their tasks and research area. In week five’s meeting, the PowerPoint were patched together, practiced the full and reviewed it for further improvements. Finally, in week six a final practice presentation took place to fine tune the presentation. The nine team roles identified by Belbin (2010) significantly conform to my own experiences. Firstly, as

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