Belbin Interpretation sheet (new)

BELBIN ROLES INTERPRETATION SHEET
Dr Meredith designed this inventory to assist people to identify their preferred team roles. The usefulness of knowing ones preferred role is not so much so that one may adjust to other roles, but more that we can recognise our strengths and play to them, thus becoming more effective as a team member.
Here are the roles –the letters are those at the column heads in Table 1. Most people find that they have a predominant style and a secondary. Your tendency will be towards your primary role, but in certain circumstances and with certain groups you will feel it useful or comfortable to slip into subordinate style. The two lowest scores may indicate weaknesses, if they are very low compared with other scores.
OR Organiser–translates all the high-flown（夸张的，好高骛远的）stuff into practical, down-to-earth and gets on with them logically and loyally. Prefers stability but can adapt if it told why. Conservative, dutiful, stable.
+ Organiser, common sense, hard work, self-discipline.
- Lack of flexibility, unresponsiveness to unproven ideas.
CH The Chair–Stable, usually extrovert, rarely, brilliant, talks easily, asks questions, listens well. Not always the team leader, will have a quiet charisma（超凡魅力）which may well amount to authority. Can sum up th e team’s feelings, and when everyone has had their say, make a decision. Calm, self-–confident, controlled. judicious（明智而审慎的，有见地的）flattery. The vital spark. Individualistic, serious minded, unorthodox（非正统的, 非传统的, 非正规的）.
+Genius, imagination, intellect, knowledge.
- Up in the clouds（脱离实际,不切实际）, disregards practical details and protocol（惯例，习惯做法）.
RI The Resource Investigator– is the dominant, extrovert, and very amiable. Either got six phones on the go（忙碌）or is out making contacts. The team’s PR, Big Ears, and diplomat, in outside world. Extroverted, enthusiastic, curious, communicative.
+ Makes contacts, and explores new avenues, responds well to challenge.
- Loses interest after initial fascination passes.
EV The Evaluator– is capable of
deep and dispassionate analysis of
huge quantities of data. Slow, stable, introvert, nor over imaginative and a
bit of a damper（压制者）, also the team’s rock. Rarely faulty judgement. Sober, unemotional, prudent（谨慎
的，小心的）.
+ Judgement, discretion, hard-
headedness（讲究实际，现实性；不
易动感情）.
- Lacks inspiration or ability to
motivate others.
TW The Team Worker– is the most sensitive member, aware of all
+ Welcomes all contributes, strong sense of objectives.
- Ordinary in terms of intellect or creativity.
SH The Shaper– is the task leader Energetic, impatient argumentative, something of a bully, shapes the team’s efforts into a cohesive project. Extrovert, not always likeable. Highly strung（神经紧张的，易心烦的）, dynamic, outgoing.
+ Drives and challenges inertia（无为；惯性，惰性）and complacency. - Provable, irritable and impatient.
IN The Innovator–is the team’s chief source of ideas, proposals, suggestions. Usually the most intelligent member, often a bit of a brat as well, the innovator is best handled with undercurrents（暗流, 掩盖着的倾向; 潜在势力）, other’s troubles etc. Damps down（降低, 衰减）discord and promotes harmony. Seemingly a bit soft an d indecisive, this character’s value is most apparent at times of stress. Social, mild, sensitive.
+ Responds to people and to
situations and promotes team
spirit.
- Indecisive at moments of crisis.
FI The Finisher– is an anxious introvert, a stickler for detail, deadlines and schedules. A bit of a downer but as a professional worry-guts, the Finisher’s relentless follow-through is crucial.
Painstaking, orderly, conscientious, anxious.
+ Follows through to perfectionism. - Tendency to worry about little things, reluctant to let go
Please remember:
1. These are tendencies and not
written in tablets of stone
2. If you don’t like what you are, it is
possible to change.
3. The ‘-‘ are all OK if they counter
balance the ‘+’s。