Belbin® Blog
Seasonal
How to work smarter as a team in 2024
by The Belbin Team, 02 Jan 2024
What do you and your team want to achieve this year? Are you working on an important new project? Do you need to communicate more effectively to stop things slipping through the cracks? Is the right…
Saber-toothed tigers and the workplace: managing difficult working relationships
by Fenlan Miller, 14 Dec 2023
Our primitive fight-or-flight response can be triggered by situations with difficult co-workers. Can we overcome this by fostering psychologically safety to encourage 'constructive conflict' at work?
Teams
Does your team speak 'Belbin'?
by The Belbin Team, 22 Sep 2023
With Belbin, you find out what you are – a Plant, a Resource Investigator etc – and then you tell everyone in your team and stick to the work that suits you. Right? Not exactly.
Management
The power of ‘thank you’
by The Belbin Team, 21 Sep 2023
Did you know that more than a quarter of us (29%) feel undervalued in our current role? It turns out that, in many cases, the simple act of a manager taking the opportunity to say ‘thank you’...
A Belbin Team Role Guide to Skydiving
by Tracy Eke | The Belbin Team, 31 Aug 2023
With a member of the Belbin team gearing up for their first charity skydive, it got us thinking about how different Team Roles might approach a skydive.
Seasonal
How do you eat yours?
by The Belbin Team, 29 Mar 2023
The first UK Bank Holidays of the year are on the horizon and with them, the overeating of chocolate. Here’s our take on how each Team Role might eat their Creme Egg.
Seasonal
Opposites Attract
by Victoria Brown | The Belbin Team, 02 Feb 2023
In the course of our research and consultancy programmes, we spend a lot of time analysing and advising on interpersonal chemistry at work.
Guest posts
Punk or Perish for Workplace Culture
by Talan Miller | Belbin Australia, 31 May 2022
In many workplaces, authenticity seems to have been suppressed with overly complex, insincere and carefully crafted workplace language, job titles, and contrived culture taking its place.
Career development
New Year, but who are you?
by The Belbin Team | Victoria Brown, 01 Jan 2022
The New Year offers an ideal opportunity to take stock and invest time and attention in ourselves and our goals. How do we ensure that we are setting realistic goals to instil long-lasting changes?