Belbin

One of my targets for Personal Development: improve team management skills. First action: Team Roles session with team under expert supervision. Today we had our team roles session. I expected a lot; every one of out nine collegues filled out an Online Personality Questionnaire with 104 items.

The team as a whole lacked an implementer and had no real coordinator. Five out of nine members had 'some' preference for implementer, my senior collegue Jeanette had preference for coordination.

My own roles from this survey were clear: strong preference for shaper and plant roles, and often for monitor evaluator. No coordinator, teamworker and implementer role preference whatsoever.

This enlightened the team discussion: it explains why we do not implement plans and manage out decisions. It also explains why team members expect me to coordinate more. My proposal to delegate some tasks in the coordinating role led to discussion about the managerial function. I understand that I should do some coordination.

Actions:

1. Planning monthly meetings of advisors and operations.

2. Shorten team meetings to 1 hour

3. Delegate the chair to Jeanette

4. Point on the meeting schedule: implementation