Successful teams are at the heart of organisational success, yet many businesses struggle to know how to set up, develop and improve their team structures. Whether it is a management team, project team or an operational team, the success of their efforts will depend largely upon:

Mutual Understanding

Team members need to understand and reflect upon how they interact with, and are perceived by, others in the team. Using world-renowned team role theory developed by Prof. Meredith Belbin, 6S Consulting can help you to improve the way that your team members interact, interrelate and communicate. We do this by:

• Profiling each team member against the world-class team roles model developed by Dr Belbin (and used in 40% of the FTSE Top 100 organisations)
• Enabling observer assessments of the team roles and behaviours played by each team member, through a simple and accessible internet site
• Feeding back the results to team members, either individually or as a group
• Helping people to reflect upon the results, raise their self-awareness and understand the nature of how they interact with the team
• Working with the team to allocate roles and tasks according to the strengths, weaknesses and team role preferences which the members exhibit

Role Analysis and Selection

The Belbin team roles package has been applied very successfully to help organisations understand the personal characteristics they should be looking for when appointing to a given role in a team. Our team dynamics service offers a simple way of analysing a role, so that you can:

• Compare current or potential candidates with the job content
• Profile candidates to seek a match between job role and potential appointees
• Understand what you need from a role, and how best to support the person in it
• Develop your awareness of the personal characteristics needed in the role for optimum performance

The simple software package allows us to include input from observers and the line manager when establishing what is needed in a given job role. This allows you to include input from those whom the post-holder will come into contact with, as well as from other stakeholders.