Team Roles At Work

Team Roles at Work is a follow-up to Meredith Belbin's highly successful book Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail.

'A team is not a bunch of people with job titles, but a congregation of individuals, each of whom has a role which is understood by other members. Members of a team seek out certain roles and they perform most effectively in the ones that are most natural to them.'

In this book, the nine Team Roles - now familiar to managers and management trainers all over - are explored further, adding value to the original Team Role concepts. Operational strategies provide ideas, techniques and a new range of information and advice which can be used to the organisation’s advantage.

The application of the theory includes:

• How to manage yourself in a team
• How to create working partnerships
• How to recognise potential for the 'surprise' fit
• How to encourage interdependence between members of a team
• How the team should fit into the organisation.

Contents:

• A short history of roles at work
• The qualifications mystery
• Emergence of a Team Role language
• The eligibility versus suitability issue
• Coherent and incoherent role profiles
• Interpersonal chemistry in the workplace
• The management of strained relations
• Strategies for self-management
• The art of effective team building
• Solo leader versus team leader
• The management of succession
• The future shape of organisation