Meredith Belbin

We also have a really deep research paper from the Morph.ai journal on psychological safety.

Yeah, and the foundational Belbin team roles methodology, plus a great white paper by Jack Zenger on strengths versus weaknesses, and an executive briefing from WingMind.

Put a lot of ground to cover.

It is.

Exactly.

How do we build the roster? It's time to look past just the technical skills listed on a resume and examine the actual granular behavioral contributions people bring to a group dynamic.

And for this, we turn to the foundational Belbin team roles methodology.

Dr. Meredith Belbin's research at Henley Management College is fascinating because it empirically proves that the most successful teams aren't just collections of the smartest people.

Yeah, and we definitely need that challenge.

So in Belbin, we have the monitor evaluator, who's the person, the black hat thinker that comes up with all the challenges and go, "Well, you haven't thought of this.

What's gonna happen when this happens?"

Yeah.

Why? Because you've not committed to learning how to put the four foundations into building a team.

You've not committed to learning how to employ the team member using psychology like VAC profiling, Belbin reports and disk profiling.

You've just took a mate of a mate of a mate on, chucked him on a job and expected him to make you a million quid and save you loads of hours a week because you've not committed.

No, no, no.

You know, don't expect everyone to do everything, but utilize your team and give them those sort of roles in your team to do that.

I'm a practitioner of Belbin and the Belbin strengths model is all about that.

You know, it's building on people's strengths.

So utilize your team in that way.

But in terms of them and their awareness and their thinking and really tapping into everything that's going on around them and not just the consciousness in front of their eyes, What is it then that organizations could be doing differently to prepare themselves for what is a very different world? And it's quite a big question.

Yeah, and it's interesting you talked about Belbin and the Myers-Briggs type indicator.

Interestingly, the Myers-Briggs type indicator is based on Carl Jung's work, so psychological types.

So we are actually looking at the unconscious in the workplace.