Team Building with Belbin

Create a team-building experience that is engaging in the moment and useful long after the session ends. Belbin helps teams understand how people contribute, communicate, and work together, turning a shared team session into practical insight and stronger working relationships.

More than a traditional team-building activity

Many team-building activities are enjoyable in the moment, but do not always change how teams work together afterward. Belbin creates an experience that feels engaging and energizing while giving teams practical insight into communication, contribution styles, working relationships, and collaboration gaps.

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Engaging

Teams participate in a shared experience that feels interactive, human, and enjoyable.

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Eye-opening

Participants gain a clearer understanding of how they contribute and how others prefer to work.

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Useful afterward

The session creates practical takeaways teams can keep using in meetings, projects, and day-to-day collaboration.

A team experience with real substance

Belbin focuses on how people contribute in a team setting. Instead of labeling personality, it helps teams understand the behavioral strengths people bring, the roles they naturally take on, and where gaps or overlaps may be affecting collaboration.

The 9 Belbin Team Roles
Build connection: Help people understand one another in a positive and constructive way.
Clarify strengths: Show the different contributions people naturally bring to the team.
Improve communication: Give teams language to talk about working styles without blame or judgment.
Support action: Turn insight into practical next steps for better collaboration.

What the session can feel like

A Belbin team-building session is not a lecture. It is designed to create discussion, reflection, shared insight, and stronger team connection.

Interactive discussion

Teams explore their results together and talk about how different contributions show up in real work.

Positive recognition

Participants see the value of different strengths and gain a better appreciation for how colleagues contribute.

Shared language

The team leaves with a practical way to discuss collaboration, communication, gaps, and working relationships.

Common team-building formats

Sessions can be tailored based on your team size, goals, timeline, and setting. Belbin can be used as a standalone team-building experience or as part of a larger retreat, offsite, or development day.

90-minute intro

A lighter session to introduce the team to Belbin and spark useful conversation.

Half-day workshop

A deeper team-building session with time for results, discussion, and practical application.

Retreat or offsite

A memorable experience that combines connection, reflection, and team development.

Leadership team session

A focused session for leaders who want to better understand team strengths, gaps, and working dynamics.

What a typical event could include

Every session can be tailored, but a Belbin-based team-building event often includes a mix of insight, discussion, connection, and practical application.

Before

Complete Belbin assessments

Participants complete their Belbin assessment ahead of the session so the experience can be grounded in real team insight.

Start

Introduce the 9 Belbin Team Roles

The team learns a simple, practical framework for understanding how different people contribute to teamwork.

Explore

Discuss individual and team results

Participants reflect on their own strengths, learn how others contribute, and discuss what the team profile reveals.

Connect

Create shared insight

The team identifies patterns, surprises, strengths, gaps, and new ways to appreciate one another’s contributions.

Apply

Turn insight into action

The session ends with practical next steps the team can use in meetings, projects, decision-making, and day-to-day work.

Ideal for teams that want connection and better collaboration

Belbin can support new teams, established teams, leadership teams, hybrid teams, departments, project groups, and teams preparing for a retreat or offsite.

New or changing teams

Help people understand one another faster and build stronger working relationships from the start.

Established teams

Refresh communication, strengthen collaboration, and create a more open way to discuss how the team works.

Retreats and offsites

Give the team a shared experience that feels enjoyable in the room and useful when everyone returns to work.

Planning a team-building session?

If you are looking for an experience that is engaging, thoughtful, and useful long after the session ends, Belbin can help your team understand how people contribute and work together.

Talk to us about a team-building session

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 assessment 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.