Team roles according to Belbin – my team analysis

As a team leader, analyze the roles available in your team. Digital team development and team analysis

With this digital Belbin test, you can invite all your team members and analyze your team. Determine what role your employees play in your team. Each team member fills out the test and learns what role they play and what strengths they contribute to the team’s success.

But that’s not all! Collect all your team’s results and analyze your team composition. In new projects, team members can work together in a targeted manner and, if necessary, add missing roles. Increase your efficiency and cooperation, increase your mutual understanding and increase your performance through role-optimized task distribution.

The test is used for the self-assessment of the team, is scientifically proven and is based on Belbin’s well-known team role model. The test includes 9 possible team roles and gives an overview of the composition of the team. The explanations of the test can be viewed in the evaluation procedure.

Like all our digital tools and services, this one is automatically available in four languages (German, English, French, Italian).

In his well-known model, Meredith Belbin distinguishes between team roles. In total, he assumes nine roles in teams that should always be filled. As a professor of psychology, he dealt with the behavior of members in teams. He found that they occupy certain typical role patterns from which a team structure emerges. With the role model according to Belbin, teams can determine their strengths. However, they can also analyze where important fields of action (roles) are unfilled and where there is potential for optimization. In short: Do we have a sensible and good distribution of roles in the team?
This article shows the definition of team role, gives an overview of the nine team roles according to Belbin and well-founded criticism of the approach. Finally, there is a simple test on team roles, which teams use to determine and discuss whether they have a good distribution of roles.