by The Belbin Team | Dec 14, 2025 | Articles, Featured
There’s no avoiding it. The advent calendars are open and Michael Bublé is telling you that it’s beginning to look a lot like… Christmas! But have you done your shopping yet – ranging from ‘smug’ to ‘not yet feeling the panic’? The question is: how...
by The Belbin Team | Dec 20, 2024 | Guides
Co-ordinator “Let’s assign roles, people!” The Coordinator ensures that Grandma is on desserts, the kids are decorating the table, and someone remembers to check the oven. Completer Finisher The unsung hero polishing the glassware, double-checking the...
by The Belbin Team | Dec 20, 2024 | Blogs
Mind the Gap – the key drivers for team effectiveness, and using Belbin to find the team’s ‘blind spots’ In the second of this series of articles responding to McKinsey’s paper ‘Go, teams’, we examine their key drivers for team effectiveness,...
by The Belbin Team | Dec 20, 2024 | Blogs
In Italian, it’s ‘discovering hot water’. In Hungarian, it’s ‘inventing sealing wax’. But I’m longing for a deliciously long and compound German word for when something you’ve been saying for years is announced as though it were breaking news. And if there isn’t one,...
by The Belbin Team | Dec 20, 2024 | Articles, Blogs
In the last of our series of articles responding to McKinsey’s paper ‘Go, teams’, we examine how to work towards sustainable changes that make a real difference to teams. (Find the first in this series – on Apollo syndrome – here, and the second – on discovering team...