A person can (and often does) express traits from multiple roles. Rather than sort people into a defined personality type, Belbin team roles are designed to score people on how strongly they express traits from the nine team roles. The test involves a person's own assessment of their behaviour along with feedback from observers and contrasts how a person sees their behaviour with how it's seen by others.īelbin makes clear that his test differs from psychometric personality tests like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test.
View more jobs on Indeed View more What is the Belbin test?įirst devised by Raymond Meredith Belbin through a study at Henley Management College, the Belbin Team Role Inventory test is a behavioural test to assess how an individual operates in a team environment and their preference for any of the nine team roles identified.
