iDEA Inspiring Digital Enterprise Awards

Belbin Quiz

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To determine which team role best describes your personality, consider the statements in each of the sections below. Please note: there are no right or wrong answers, so take as much time as you need to consider each statement honestly.

Pick the one that you feel best describes your behaviour.

1. The main contribution I make to a team is...

2. My shortcomings when working in a team are...

3. When involved in a project with other people...

4. My usual approach to team work is...

5. I gain satisfaction in a job because...

6. If I am suddenly asked to work on a difficult task with limited time and resources and unfamiliar people...

7. The main problems I experience when working on a team are...

Your role in a team is best described as:

Other team roles you'd play well:

So your likely role in a team according to the Belbin quiz would be:

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You thought you would most likely be:

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On to the next step

Implementer

An implementer works best when allowed to work in an organised way.

Typical features

Good organiser who converts ideas into action. Conservative, dutiful, reliable, predictable.

Strengths

Organising ability, practical common sense, hard working, self-discipline.

Allowable weaknesses

Lack of flexibility, unresponsiveness to unproven ideas. Resistant to change.

Co-Ordinator

A Co-Ordinator works best when there are clear objectives

Typical features

Calm, self-confident, controlled and diplomatic. Focused on overall results and a strong sense of objectives.

Strengths

A capacity for treating and welcoming all potential contributors on their merits and without prejudice. Gets the team to make decisions.

Allowable weaknesses

Can be seen as aloof - above the team - or not 'one of the gang'. Seen as manipulative. Off loads detailed work.

Shaper

A Shaper works best on own initiative and limited compromise.

Typical features

Outgoing, dynamic and highly strung. Results oriented and straight to action but pushy with others. Sprint to action.

Strengths

Drive and a readiness to challenge inertia, ineffectiveness, complacency or self-deception.

Allowable weaknesses

Will do what it takes for results even if it upsets others. Prone to provocation, irritation and impatience. Bossy?

Plant

A Plant works best on their own.

Typical features

Individualistic, intelligent and creative. Serious minded but unorthodox.

Strengths

Imagination, intellect, knowledge. Ideas and original thought for problem solving.

Allowable weaknesses

Not a team player. Pre-occupied. Up in the clouds, inclined to disregard practical details or protocol.

Resource Investigator

A Resource Investigator works best when free to get out and meet people

Typical features

Extroverted, enthusiastic, curious, communicative. Optimistic and good at networking.

Strengths

A capacity for contacting people and exploring anything new. An ability to respond to challenge.

Allowable weaknesses

Liable to lose interest once the initial fascination has passed. Easily bored and need recognition.

Monitor Evaluator

A Monitor Evaluator works best when allowed to analyse facts

Typical features

Analytical, unemotional and prudent. Likes to use facts.

Strengths

Judgement, discretion and hard-headedness.

Allowable weaknesses

Lack inspiration or the ability to motivate others. Lack humour and enthusiasm.

Team Worker

A Team Worker works best when given time and freedom to develop good relations

Typical features

Socially oriented, rather mild, sensitive. Loyal and concerned.

Strengths

An ability to respond to people and to situations and to promote team spirit.

Allowable weaknesses

Put people before results. Indecisiveness at moments of crisis.

Completer Finisher

A Completer Finisher works best when high standards are expected and checked

Typical features

Meticulous and set high standards for self and others. Painstaking, orderly and conscientious.

Strengths

A capacity for follow-through. Perfectionist. Self-driven. Delivers on time.

Allowable weaknesses

A tendency to worry about small things. A reluctance to 'let go'. Intolerant of the failure of others.