Belbin® Team Role Summary Descriptions
Team Role Summary Descriptions

Team Role Contribution

Plant

Creative, imaginative, unorthodox. Solves difficult problems.

Allowable Weakness
Ignores incidentals. Too preoccupied to communicate effectively.

Resource Investigator
Co-ordinator

Extrovert, enthusiastic, communicative. Explores opportunities. Develops contacts.
Mature, confident, a good chairperson. Clarifies goals, promotes decision-making, delegates well.

Over-optimistic. Loses interest once initial enthusiasm has passed.
Can be seen as manipulative. Offloads personal work.

Shaper

Challenging, dynamic, thrives Prone to provocation. on pressure. Has the drive and Offends people’s feelings. courage to overcome obstacles.

Monitor Evaluator

Sober, strategic and discerning. Lacks drive and ability to

Sees all options. Judges

inspire others.

accurately.

Teamworker Co-operative, mild, perceptive Indecisive in crunch and diplomatic. Listens, builds, situations. averts friction.

Implementer

Disciplined, reliable, conservative and efficient. Turns ideas into practical actions.

Somewhat inflexible. Slow to respond to new possibilities.

Completer Finisher

Painstaking, conscientious, anxious. Searches out errors and omissions. Polishes and perfects.

Inclined to worry unduly. Reluctant to delegate.

Specialist

Single-minded, self-starting,

Contributes on only a narrow

dedicated. Provides knowledge front. Dwells on

and skills in rare supply.

technicalities.

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