This Belbin training takes you to a precise reading of the 9 team roles defined by Meredith Belbin. Over a full day, you understand how the model works, complete and decode your own assessment, and use the team profile to make the group more efficient. A useful approach for managers, HR, project managers and anyone wishing to professionalize the dynamics of their team.
An efficient team needs the 9 Belbin roles, not 9 stars
For profiles wishing to use Belbin in French speaking Switzerland, this course gives a clear framework: meaning of each role, complementarities and tensions, applications in recruitment, team building or performance development. The course relies on a real case worked over the day, including the analysis of your own assessment and concrete exercises. You walk away with a tool ready to deploy in your team.
Belbin® Team Roles Method
Belbin® individual profile
Deepening of roles in the Belbin® team
Application of the Belbin® model to the collective
Leadership model
The Belbin model is one of the most rigorous tools to read team dynamics. Recognized in management for decades, it offers a clear vocabulary to talk about complementarities, tensions and missing roles. This course offers a structured approach for those who want to professionalize its use, beyond an isolated assessment.
Belbin is the result of years of research at Henley Management College in the 1980s. The course details the methodology, distinguishes between behavioral roles (action, social, thought) and explains why this model has held up over time. A first step often missing in fast initiations.
Coordinator, Plant, Resource Investigator, Implementer, Completer Finisher, Shaper, Specialist, Team Worker, Monitor Evaluator: each role has its strengths, allowable weaknesses and contributions. The course details them with concrete examples and shows you how to recognize them in your team.
Each participant works on their own Belbin assessment, with personalized restitution. You learn to read primary roles, secondary roles and roles to avoid, and to translate them into concrete career signals: what suits you, what costs you, what you can develop.
The most powerful use of Belbin is at the collective level: missing roles, redundancies, recurring tensions, complementarities to leverage. The course gives you a structured method to analyze a team and bring useful actions: rebalancing, complementary recruitment, role distribution.
Recruiting on a missing profile, handling a tension between two members, building a project team, animating a team building day: the course details concrete use cases. You leave with operational scenarios and not just theory.
At ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this course runs over one day with a certified Belbin instructor. Format with personal assessment, group exercises and individual debriefing.
Managers, HR, project leaders, consultants, internal trainers wanting to introduce Belbin in their team practices or accompaniments. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, life sciences and consulting. No specific prerequisite.
You understand the nine Belbin roles and their interactions, decode your own Belbin assessment with finesse, build a complete team analysis on these nine roles, use Belbin in management, recruitment and team building, and know when the tool does not fit. You leave with your personal profile and a usage plan on your team.
A manager balancing his team by spotting missing roles after assessment. An HR recruiting specifically on a complementary missing role. A consultant facilitating a Belbin team building in discovery workshop mode. The course simulates these three cases in practical exercises.
This training combines well with team management for broader managerial frame, recruitment (course 14843) for HR use, and Lego Serious Play (course 14840) for team cohesion workshops. Many HR and managers enroll in one of these courses.
The Belbin model remains one of the most used tools in team management, HR and team building, popularized by Meredith Belbin at Henley Management College. Beyond simple grid, it is a complete approach helping balance team roles, recruit on missing skills, facilitate cohesion seminars. This training proposes a rigorous initiation to use the tool without trivializing it.
A manager balancing his team by spotting missing roles after Belbin assessment. An HR structuring recruitment on missing complementary role. A consultant facilitating Belbin team building in discovery workshop mode. The course simulates these three cases in practical exercises with personalized feedback.
The Belbin tool benefits from regular use rather than occasional assessment. The course proposes lasting integration in team management: semi-annual reviews, explicit role conversations, progressive adjustment. A use that transforms an assessment tool into permanent team quality lever.
Is the assessment included in the price?
Yes, each participant benefits from a personal Belbin assessment, completed before or during the course according to format.
Difference with MBTI or DISC?
Belbin focuses on team behavioral roles, MBTI on personality, DISC on communication style. The three approaches do not aim at the same target.
Does the model still hold today?
Yes, Belbin remains used by companies and HR firms in 2026. The course discusses limits and modern complements.
Can I become a certified Belbin practitioner?
This course is an in-depth professional initiation, but not an official certification. A specific path is required for certification.
The Geneva and Lausanne professional context features many international and matrix organizations where Belbin needs adaptation: cultural variations in role expression, dotted line reporting that complicates team boundaries, virtual teams that limit Belbin observation. The course briefly addresses these adaptations with techniques to use the model rigorously in these complex contexts. A practical perspective often missing from generic Belbin initiation.
Does the assessment work in remote contexts?
Yes, the assessment is reliable remotely, but observation and team integration require specific facilitation adaptations addressed in the course.
Is Belbin still relevant in 2026?
Yes, Belbin remains widely used in management and HR. The course adopts critical posture on its limits and complements it with other modern approaches (MBTI, DISC, Insights).
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
