The Belbin Exercise :: Business and Management Studies

The Belbin ExerciseIntroductionDuring term 1 of our module I took part in 2 licks and a Belbintest. During the 2 exercises and test I learned many skills and newideas that will aid me in the future.ReportThe scratch element of separate work that we did was the Belbin exercise. This was to ascertain youre most effective radical role. From theresults we were arranged into groups which contained a mixture ofroles. My role was company worker. I neither agreed nor disagreedwith the result as part of me could see the logic behind the resultand part of me saw myself with a position of higher authority. Idont think the focusing the groups were formed made any difference in thefirst exercise. Maybe under different circumstances our differentroles could have become more apparent.From taking part in the two exercises I have learned that planning isvital to any type of work, in particular group work. I think the reasonbehind this is because without planning nothing is done efficiently. I h ave also learned that communication is rattling principal(prenominal) our secondexercise was totally dependant on verbal communication. Although wehad a slow start we eventually started to communicate effectively andsolved the problem very fast.In the first exercise we were in smaller groups, my group containedseven large number, including myself. During this exercise all groupmembers contributed evenly. In the second exercise we worked in amuch larger group, I noticed that some people didnt contribute at alland the bulk of the discussion was coming from the same people. Although this happened the exercise was done swiftly and effectively.Good communication skills were demonstrated during the secondexercise. Group members put their point across in an orderly way andthe other group members listened well and contributed. During thisexercise we didnt necessarily have a strategy but we did operate agood effective system. We had one person that people fed informationto, and that perso n then made notes of the information onto thewhiteboard. Once all the information was gathered we were then ableto come to a conclusion. My group also showed good communication skills in the first exercise. We had to come up with a group opinion of which person deserved theuse of the available kidney machine. The way we came to our decisionwas to firstly decide a priority order individually, then by using a