Team Roles

Team Roles

Building a team requires considered thought. By choosing team members that are

Capable to do his or her work accordingly. All strong organizations struggle to find

select role players to maximize goal achievement.

According to Meredith Belbin (1993), there are nine roles that successful teams

should have: Coordinator, Shaper, Plant, Resource investigator, Implementer, Team

worker, Completer, Monitor evaluator, Specialist (Belbin ,1993).

Meredith Belbin (1993) coordinator is the one who will have a clear view of the

team objectives and will be skilled at inviting the contribution of team members in

achieving these, rather than just pushing his or her own view. This person must have

self-discipline and applies to the team and must be confident and mature, and will

summarise the view of the group and will be prepared to take a decision on the basis of

this (Belbin ,1993). The second role is the shaper, who is full of drive to make things

happen and get things going. In doing this, they are quite happy to push their own views

forward, do not mind being challenged and are always ready to challenge others. Looks

for the pattern in discussions and tries to pull things together into something feasible

which the team can then get to work on (Belbin ,1993).The third role is the plant this

member is the one who is likely to come out with the Original ideas and challenge the

traditional way of thinking about things. Sometimes they Become so imaginative and

creative that the team cannot see the relevance of what they saying. However, with out

the plant to scatter the seeds of new ideas the team will often find it difficult to make

any headway. The plant's strength is in providing major new insights and ideas for

changes in direction and not in contributing to the detail of what needs to be done

(Belbin