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Belbin Team Inventory The Belbin Team Inventory, also called the Belbin Self-Perception Inventory, Belbin Team Role Inventory, SPI or BTRSPI, is an assessment used to gain insight into an individuals behavioural tendency in a team environment. It was devised by Dr. Meredith Belbin to measure preference for the nine Team Roles discovered whilst studying numerous teams at Henley Management College. Contents [hide] 1 Behavioural test 2 History 3 Application and use 4 Team roles 4.1 Plant 4.2 Resource Investigator 4.3 Co-ordinator 4.4 Shaper 4.5 Monitor Evaluator 4.6 Teamworker 4.7 Implementer 4.8 Completer Finisher 4.9 Specialist 5 Studies of validity and reliability 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Behavioural testThe Belbin Team Role Inventory assesses how an individual behaves in a team environment. It is therefore a behavioural tool, subject to change, and not a psychometric instrument. The assessment includes 360-degree feedback from observers as well as the individuals own evaluation of their behaviour, and contrasts how they see their behaviour versus how their colleagues do. Unlike the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which is a psychometric instrument used to sort people into one of 16 personality types, the Belbin Inventory scores people on how strongly they express behavioural traits from 9 different Team Roles. An individual may and often does exhibit strong tendencies towards multiple roles. Belbin himself asserts that the Team Roles are not equivalent to personality types. HistoryDr. Meredith Belbin first began studying teams at Henley Management College in the 1970s. Over a period of ten years, Belbin carried out extended observational research to determine which factors influenced team failure or success. A management game was designed to reproduce work life. It contained all the principal variables that typify the problems of decision-making in a business environment. The experiment was designed along scientific lines with carefu