Belbin Reports
Belbin Resilience Reports
£24.50 plus VAT per person, or £49.00 plus VAT per team
Two reports that take the Belbin profiles you already have and build on these by asking a key question: what happens to this person, or to this team, when things start to get difficult? No new questionnaire required.
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SpecialistMost resilience analysis work starts and ends with the individual: manage your energy, identify your stressors, build coping strategies. All very useful, but it can place too much emphasis on one person under pressure, and may tell you nothing about the team around them.
The two Belbin Resilience reports take a different approach. They start from first understanding the behaviour people actually show at work, as identified by their own Belbin Self-Perception Report and from colleagues who observed them. They then look at how individual and team behaviour is most likely to respond when conditions get tough.
For an individual, that means knowing which strengths to lean on and which areas to watch out for.
For a team, it means knowing where the behaviours you will need are actually situated within the team, and whether you may be relying too much on a single person in more challenging times.
Before You Order
What You Need First
Both Resilience reports are built using the Belbin questionnaire data that already exists. They are an addition to a Belbin Team Roles profile, not a replacement for one, and cannot be run as a standalone assessment.
- Individual Resilience Report. Needs a completed Belbin Individual Report, which means the person has at least completed the Self-Perception Inventory. Observer Assessments are optional, but we would strongly encourage them, as they provide an additional overview that self-perception alone cannot produce. They give a greater understanding of perceived behaviour under pressure, and of the gap between how people see themselves and how colleagues see them.
- Team Resilience Report. Needs the members of the team to each have completed individual profiles, in the same way a Belbin Team Report requires. The sample report is based on six people and thirty-two observers between them.
In practical terms, nothing new has to be completed, so running a Resilience report takes your team no time at all. Provided the Team Role profiles are current, we are able to produce reports the same working day.
If your team has not completed Belbin Team Role reports before, or the profiles are several years and several job changes out of date, you will need to start by producing new Individual and Team reports and then add the Resilience reports on top. If you are not sure, contact us and we can guide you through the process, explain exactly what is needed and what the cost will be.
£24.50 plus VAT per person
Inside the Individual Resilience Report
The Individual Resilience Report is written specifically for the person it is about. It opens with a reminder of their own Team Role profile, then explains what their profile suggests about how they are likely to hold up under duress, where they may be more likely to come under strain, and what they can do to help address this.
- Profile Reminder
Their top and bottom Team Roles restated in a few sentences, drawn from Self-Perception and observer feedback where provided, so the resilience pages that follow should make sense without the need to refer to the original report.
- Your Resilience
Includes content around the strengths worth leaning on, the way this person tends to build resilience, the areas to keep an eye on, and tapping into a wider network, which can be a genuine asset in a crisis.
- What Others Think
Drawn from the Observer Assessments, only where provided. Things that colleagues see this person doing well under pressure, and suggested adjustments.
- Action Plan
Identifying the strengths and the risks of their particular role combinations, a note on which kind of colleague to work with to help cover behavioural contributions they may lack, and specific ways to strengthen resilience.
- Social, Thinking and Action Role Resilience
Three reference pages covering all nine roles in their three subsets, describing how each group approaches difficult or challenging situations and how to support each role effectively. Useful for the reader and for their manager to improve understanding.
£49.00 plus VAT per team
Inside the Team Resilience Report
What makes the Belbin Resilience report different from most resilience diagnostics is that it can help build understanding of resilience across the whole team, not just at individual level, leading to more informed discussions and decisions.
- Potential Contributions to Team Resilience
For each of the nine Team Roles, the circumstances in which the team is likely to need each role contribution and which people can supply it. It helps teams to better understand the answer to the question “who do we need right now?”
- Resilience and Team Culture
How this team tends to handle difficulty and any areas it may need to focus on or add. A team that may talk through and discuss issues and challenges effectively, for example, can better understand how it may require delivery owners, setting deadlines and reaching decisions, otherwise it may risk “all talk and no action”.
- Resilience and Team Role Distribution
The core of the report identifies the roles the team may depend on a single person for, and then takes each one in turn: what may stall if that person is unavailable, considering the impact that a greater level of dependency may have on them, and what the team could change to improve this.
- Strengthening Resilience in Your Team
A short paragraph on every team member, particularly of benefit for the team leader: what each person contributes to resilience, and the one adjustment that could make the most difference. Practical guidance which can be immediately actionable.
The distribution pages help understand potential single points of failure, which can be elements of team resilience that organisations can often miss. A team can look strong on every Team Role measure yet still lose its ability to make decisions when the only Shaper or Co-ordinator in the team is on annual leave. Find out more in our guide to building team resilience.
In Practice
Benefits of Belbin Resilience Reports
It can be worth running resilience reports in relation to a range of scenarios, including:
- Known increase in workload or pressure. A restructure, a system migration, an integration after an acquisition, a regulatory change deadline. Understanding the resilience profile of the team before starting out is far more useful than understanding it after the event.
- A key person is leaving the team. The distribution pages help understand exactly which behaviours could be walking out of the door and any gaps that may arise as a result. The reports provide insight into how to better manage and mitigate this.
- Significant change process. The team is embarking on any significant change process and you want to maximise the benefit and minimise the impact.
- Workload imbalance. The report can help provide supporting evidence and facilitate conversations where you suspect someone is over-burdened in the team, and identify ways to improve this, without making it personal.
- Wellbeing and stress management. Facilitated resilience workshops supported by Belbin Resilience Reports can help improve mental health and wellbeing and reduce stress, by understanding and working on the team’s actual strengths, dependencies and potential gaps.
- A new management appointment. Understanding how the new manager is likely to contribute under pressure can help them settle in, and help the team adjust around them.
Being Clear
What These Reports Are Not
Resilience is quite a broad subject and can cover a lot of areas. Belbin Resilience reports don’t claim to provide every answer, but they can provide practical help and support. It is worth being clear on what they do not do:
- They do not provide a resilience score. Neither report rates or scores anybody or any team on how resilient they are, and neither produces a number you can track on a dashboard. They are about understanding behaviour better in a resilience context, by describing where resilience levels are likely to be greater or lesser.
- They are not a stress, wellbeing or mental health assessment. Belbin measures behavioural contribution at work. The reports are not a clinical assessment and must never be used as one.
- They do not replace occupational health support, employee assistance programmes or management of workloads. If somebody is struggling, the reports are designed to build better understanding, not to act as the final solution.
- They are not a selection tool. Neither report should ever be used to decide who is hired, promoted or made redundant. The same principle applies across all the Belbin reports: using Belbin in a recruitment context can greatly help inform and build understanding, but should never be used to score or rate candidates.
Ordering
Cost and Delivery
Individual Resilience Report
£24.50 plus VAT, per personTeam Resilience Report
£49.00 plus VAT, per teamBoth reports are run as a supplement to existing Belbin Team Role reports. You can buy up to ten reports and pay by card on the Buy Belbin Reports page. For larger numbers, or if you would rather be invoiced, just get in touch and we will arrange this.
Belbin Scotland offers all the Belbin Reports available and can help with any support, workshop delivery or facilitation.
Only Accredited Belbin Practitioners who have attended the approved Belbin Resilience Workshop can process reports and deliver resilience sessions or workshops.
Contact us for more details.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Do the Belbin Resilience reports give a resilience score?
No. Neither report measures how resilient somebody is, and neither produces a rating or a number. They describe where a person’s or a team’s resilience is likely to come from, where it is likely to be under strain, and what to do about it.
Can I buy a Resilience report on its own?
Not on its own. Both reports are built upon existing Belbin Team Role profiles, so the Individual Resilience Report needs a completed Belbin Individual report behind it, and the Team Resilience Report needs each of the team members to have completed individual profiles. If you need any Team Role reports, get in touch and we can help.
Does the Individual Resilience Report need Observer Assessments?
No, observers are optional but recommended. The report can be run using a Self-Perception Inventory alone. We would still encourage observer feedback, as the What Others Think page is drawn entirely from their feedback and it helps build greater understanding than a self-assessment will achieve on its own. Read our guidance on choosing observers for more details.
Is there a new questionnaire to complete?
No. Both reports are generated from the completed Belbin Team Role Inventory data, so they require no additional time to complete.
How quickly can a report be processed?
Where the underlying Belbin Team Role profiles are current and complete, normally the same working day. Where observers are still to be collected, the timing depends on how quickly they respond, which is normally the longest part of the process.
Should I get the individual reports or the team report?
They provide different information and answer different questions. The individual reports help each person understand and manage their own responses to working under pressure. The team report helps tell the manager and team members where the team may have strengths or potentially be exposed. Using both reports within a team will provide a much stronger overview and build greater understanding.
Can we run the Resilience reports ourselves?
Only Belbin Accredited Practitioners who have attended the approved Belbin Resilience Workshop can process these reports and deliver resilience sessions or workshops. Accreditation on its own is not enough.
Belbin Scotland can produce the reports and run the debrief or workshop for you, either as a short session for one person or for a whole team. If you would rather bring this in-house, Belbin accreditation is the starting point, followed by the Resilience Workshop. Get in touch and we will explain what is involved.
Are the Resilience reports available outside Scotland?
Belbin Scotland is the Licensed Belbin Distributor for Scotland. If you are based elsewhere in the UK or overseas, get in touch, and if we cannot help directly we can introduce you to the Belbin Distributor who will be best placed to help.
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Next Steps
Find Out Where Your Team Is Exposed
Belbin Scotland works with organisations across Scotland to turn Belbin reports into decisions people actually act on.
Read the Practical Guide
What each Team Role brings under pressure, how to spot over-reliance on one person, and how to run the conversation with your team.
Building Team ResilienceStart With the Profiles
If your team has not done Belbin yet, the Individual and Team reports come first. Resilience is then a small addition to the order.
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A workshop, run across Scotland or online, turns the resilience findings into the specific changes your team will make.
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