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A Guide to Belbin Team Roles

Discover Belbin® Team Roles

The proven team building system that successful companies have been using for over 30 years to develop and manage top performing teams.

If you’re developing your own teams or helping a client manage theirs, chances are you’ve seen your share of dysfunctional teams, whose performance is characterized by inaction, missed deadlines, lack-luster deliverables, criticism, and conflict. And you’d probably love a way to consistently develop and manage teams that communicate effortlessly, regularly exceed expectations, and approach disagreements openly.

Many people assume that building a successful team is simply a matter of good luck. But the truth is, you don’t have to rely on the luck of the draw to create an effective, productive team.

The Discovery

Thirty years ago, Dr. Meredith Belbin discovered that top-performing teams have a particular balance of skills, each with its own strengths and ideal responsibilities. He called these Team Roles. And, using Team Roles, Belbin was able to predict teams’ success with 78% accuracy.
The success of your team depends on having the right balance of Team Roles. We can help you build that balance-with a scientifically validated, proven system that allows you to predict and manage your team’s success.

Interested?

Download our free, 70-page comprehensive introduction to Belbin’s team building approach, A Guide to Team Roles. You’ll get 30 years’ worth of academic research combined with practical experience—so you can stop leaving your teams’ success up to chance.

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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.