 Do you Suffer from the Apollo syndrome?
The Apollo Syndrome is a phenomenon discovered by Dr. Meredith Belbin and is described as a condition where teams of highly well-qualified capable individuals perform indifferently. Debating skills do not bind people together, if anything they cause and open-up rifts and divisions.
One would think the think-tank approach seems on the face of it the ideal way of harnessing human talent? Put a bunch of senior managers with sharp analytical minds together and voilą - you have the ideal team! Well, his research proved the opposite - Apollo teams were systematically outperformed during the Henley management games.
As the only Belbin Master Trainer in Ireland, I am constantly astounded at how often I find so many unbalanced teams. Teams that are conditioned to keeping the status quo and unable to engage the diversity and conflict that could help them embrace new paradigms. And so they remain glued in the past, blaming exterior factors, mostly the economy, for poor performance, rather getting to the root of the issue. Selecting and engaging the appropriate mindsets and behaviours.
The Belbin methodology is a powerful, proven team diagnostic tool that will give you a team development strategy in order to survive and thrive in the NEW economy. This is the age of collaboration and realising our connectedness. Success depends on teams that can thrive across organisation boundaries.
The Team Working: Belbin Team Role Accreditation course is for team managers, project managers, HR practitioners, coaches and in-house team advisors - the first step to being able to coach teams on how best to pull together and how to select and match team members to team roles.
As we move into a new paradigm where co-creation is the doorway to the future in business, Belbin Team Role awareness is a must for anyone who will be involved in such work.
This is a rare opportunity to join a public course for official accreditation in the Belbin Team Role methodology and currently the ONLY opportunity in Ireland. Last course of the calendar year
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Team Working: Belbin Team Role Accreditation 20/21st October, Galway - 3 places remaining!!
Become a Belbin Team Role Expert and increase effective Team Work
Belbin Train the Trainer - Become a Belbin Accredited Consultant
Barrie Watson, who works closely with Belbin Associates in the UK and XenerGie Consulting Ltd who have helped numerous organisations to bring about tangible performance improvements by applying the Belbin philosophy and technology, conduct the two-day course described below.
This 2-day coursewill fully brief you in the Belbin Team Role theory and help you learn:
· How teams succeed and fail, using the Belbin Team Role model as a framework for analysis
· How the 9 Belbin team role behaviour types co-relate
· How to select team members according to suitability rather than eligibility, saving you time, money and frustration - no more 'square pegs in round holes'
· How to enhance your team leadership skills.
· How to manage projects using Belbin Team Roles
· How to conduct and produce personal profile and team reports using Belbin E-Interplace
· How to train others in applying this methodology
Next Intake: 20/21th October 2009 Price PP: €895.00
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Learn how Xerox has been using Belbin as a critical component of their Lean 6 Sigma Strategy
Interview with Aqua Porter, a Vice President of the Corporate Lean Six Sigma Strategy at Xerox Corporation. An advocate for Lean Six Sigma at Xerox, has led many Black Belt projects and the growth of Xerox Team Accelerator. Team Accelerator is a workshop program that utilizes the Belbin Team Role system to help teams draw on the strengths of each team member and work together.
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 What are the benefits of identifying team Roles?
Applying Belbin Team Roles in the workplace
Dr Meredith Belbin originated the concept of team roles in his books Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail (Butterworth Heinemann 1981) and Team Roles at Work (Butterworth Heinemann 1993). Belbin defined a team role as:
"a pattern of behaviour characteristic of the way in which one team member interacts with another where performance serves to facilitate the progress of the team as a whole. The value of team-role theory lies in enabling an individual or team to benefit from self knowledge and adjust according to the demands being made by the external situation."
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