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Team Collaboration Mapping

Know yourself. Know your team. Improve how you work together.

Even strong teams can struggle when contributions are misaligned. When key roles are missing or underrepresented, work can stall, decisions slow down and execution becomes inconsistent. Team Collaboration Mapping helps you see how people contribute, where gaps exist and how to bring the team back into balance.

Help people contribute where they add the most value

Team Collaboration Mapping helps teams see how people are most likely to contribute and where those strengths can be best used. The result is better alignment, stronger engagement, and more effective teamwork.

  1. Align roles more effectively

    Match team contributions more intentionally so important work is better supported.

  2. Create shared clarity

    Give the team a clearer understanding of who is contributing what and why.

  3. Put strengths into action

    Help individuals apply their natural strengths in practical ways that support the team.

  4. Improve engagement and results

    Better alignment can lead to improved collaboration, stronger engagement, and better business outcomes.

How it works

Three simple steps to understand your team and improve how you work together.

1

Belbin Report

Each team member completes a Belbin Report combining self-view and colleague feedback.

  • Build individual self-awareness
  • Highlight strengths and working style
  • Create a shared foundation for the team view
[See sample report]
Sample Belbin Report Page
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Shared Learning

~1 hour

A short eLearning module helps the team understand results and prepare for discussion.

  • Understand Belbin reports
  • Learn about the Team Collaboration Map
  • Explore balanced and unbalanced team dynamics
Woman Completing eLearning
3

Team Workshop

~2 hours

A facilitated session helps the team apply insights and improve how they work together.

  • Align roles and responsibilities more effectively
  • Create shared clarity on who contributes what and why
  • Agree on actions to apply strengths in practice
Team Workshop Participants

Frequently asked questions

Learn more about Team Collaboration Mapping, how it works, and whether it may be a fit for your team.

What are Belbin Team Roles?

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Belbin Team Roles are nine predictable ways people tend to contribute when working with others.

Based on Dr. Meredith Belbin’s research into team effectiveness, the most successful teams are not made up of people with the same strengths. They are made up of people whose different contributions are brought in at the right times.

Team Collaboration Mapping uses these roles to help teams understand how contributions are currently showing up across the group and how that impacts collaboration and performance.

[Learn more about Team Roles]

Team Role Descriptions
Team Role Descriptions

What is a Team Collaboration Map?

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A Team Collaboration Map is a visual view of how contributions are currently showing up across a team, based on the nine Belbin Team Roles.

It helps teams see where strengths are concentrated, where gaps may exist, and how those patterns may be affecting collaboration, ownership, and follow-through.

By making this visible, the map gives teams a practical starting point for improving how they work together.

Example of a Belbin Team Collaboration Map showing team strengths and gap areas
Example Team Collaboration Map

What happens in a Team Collaboration Mapping workshop?

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The workshop is a structured, team-led session focused on how people contribute and work together as a team.

Using a shared Team Collaboration Map based on the nine Belbin Team Roles, the team builds a visual view of how individual contributions come together, where strengths are concentrated, and where gaps may be affecting collaboration and performance.

Through guided discussion and structured exercises, the team explores how they work together in practice, how different contributions show up, and agrees on practical changes that can be sustained over time.

Outcomes typically include:

  • A shared understanding of individual strengths and contributions
  • Greater awareness of how the team works together
  • Clearer alignment of roles and expectations
  • Practical ways to strengthen collaboration and overall team performance

What makes this different from other workshops?

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Most workshops focus on personality or individual insight, describing preferences, styles, or how people tend to think. These insights can be useful, but they are often relatively fixed and harder to act on.

Team Collaboration Mapping focuses on observable behavior, how people actually contribute when working with others. Because behavior can be adapted, it creates a clearer path for making practical changes.

It also brings a team perspective. Rather than looking at individuals in isolation, it shows how contributions combine across the group and where adjustments at the team level can improve collaboration and performance.

Teams leave with a clearer picture of how they work together and practical changes they can apply right away.

[Learn more about Belbin versus other tools]

How do I know if TCM is right for my team or organization?

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Team Collaboration Mapping is most useful for teams that want a clearer view of how people are contributing and where gaps may be affecting performance.

If your team is experiencing unclear ownership, stalled progress, uneven follow-through, or collaboration that is not translating into results, TCM may be a good fit.

Want to talk through your team or see whether this would suit your organization? Contact us today.

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Trusted by the Teams Who Can’t Afford to Miss

Belbin has been trusted by global organizations for over 35 years—including Eli Lilly and Fortune 1000 companies who know performance isn’t about personality, it’s about team chemistry.

It’s not just theory—it’s the Gold Standard in team dynamics.

“Belbin gave us a framework we didn’t even know we needed. It changed how we collaborate.”

— Director, Global Strategy, Pharmaceutical Company

See the Team You Have. Build the Team You Need.

Curious how your team would map out? Let’s walk you through it.

In just one session, we’ll show you how a Belbin Survey works, what your Team Collaboration Map could look like, and how we help close the Interaction Gap—without personality labels, fluff, or guesswork.

Let’s start with a conversation.







Lindsay Lalla

Lindsay Lalla is the VP of Marketing and Client Support for Belbin North America. Most recently, she has been spearheading the introduction of the Belbin Team Role methodology into North America. Lindsay is a skilled facilitator, and also runs the Belbin Accreditation classes where she certifies others in the Belbin method.
Lindsay’s formal education is in instruction and performance. Combined with her 17 years of adult education experience, she brings a depth of understanding in how to deliver the highly experiential workshops that are a hallmark of the Belbin North America approach to education and organizational development.

Patrick Ballin

Patrick offers more than 25 years of experience with some of the most successful businesses in Europe as a consultant, change manager and executive coach.

He has helped many well-known organisations to get their ideas and projects off the ground by working with business leaders and their teams to optimise interaction, strategy and execution.
Patrick was Global Head of Supply Chain and Logistics Development for The Body Shop, an international retailer of ethical health and beauty products, and managed its change programme across 52 countries. In 2009, he set up the national redundancy coaching service, Rework, for the UK industry charity, Retail Trust. Patrick spent his earlier career with ACWL Group, one of the pioneering UK Apple Centres, where he was a divisional Director.
He holds an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, is a Visiting Lecturer for Brighton Business School, a Fellow of the RSA and coach for social enterprise incubator On Purpose.

Max Isaac

Max is the CEO of 3Circle Partners. He brings a depth of knowledge and experience from his career in general management and consulting in North America, England, Europe and Asia.
Max has assisted CEOs and senior leaders within client organizations with the design and implementation of Interaction Planning processes, team based organizational development programs and Lean Six Sigma initiatives.
Prior to moving into the field of organizational development, Max was the CFO for the Retail Division within The Molson’s Organization, where he took a lead role in growing the business to over $1 billion in revenues, doubling its size in four years through acquisitions and internal growth.
Max is co-author of Close The Interaction Gap, The Third Circle – Interactions That Drive Results, Setting Teams Up for Success and A Guide to Team Roles. He is also the contributing author of the Organizational Change sections of Mike George’s books Lean Six Sigma published in May 2002 and Lean Six Sigma for Service published in June 2003. Max is a registered CPA, CA in Canada. His undergraduate degree was earned at Witwatersrand University, South Africa.