Understanding Your Role in a Team
Meredith Belbin, Management Teams: Why they succeed or fail, 2nd Ed., 2004; Oxford, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann (www.belbin.com)
This 56-item team role self-assessment exercise is an easy way to determine which of eight team roles best fits your personality and operating style. A brief description of each type follows, including typical features, strengths, and allowable weaknesses. Understanding one’s role on a team can improve functioning in complex collaborative projects. Can be used individually or with any team. (10 pages)