The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work
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Have you ever been overtaken at work by someone with fewer qualifications? Have you ever wondered how some people move effortlessly up the career ladder, while others stall at each rung?
Drawing on 27 years' experience since the publication of Meredith Belbin's bestselling book, Management Teams - Why They Succeed or Fail, Belbin have produced a book to answer all these questions and more.
The secret starts with knowing who you are, how you behave, and how you interact with others. Are you a Plant, for example? A Shaper? Or a Coordinator? Using these Belbin 'Team Roles' as a language to describe their behaviour, readers can learn how they can contribute at work in the most useful way.
Whether you are are in your first job or looking for ways to land that promotion, the concise and jargon-free Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work will help you reach your career goals.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface by Nigel Belbin
- Introduction by Meredith Belbin
- 1 Understanding ourselves, our potential and the situation
- Our own propensities
- A dilemma
- Understanding ourselves
- Our potential
- Adapting to the situation
- 2 Jobs and Work
- Getting through the door
- The different reasons for working
- Your changing needs
- 3 Finding Vour Role in a Team
- A long-running experiment
- The nine Team Roles
- Find out your Team Roles
- Why Observers matter
- 4 Learning to Manage Your Profile
- Project your image
- If you've got it, flaunt it
- Team Role sacrifices
- Becoming a good example of the type
- 5 How to Handle Difficult People
- Difficult situations versus difficult people
- Awkward pairings
- Coping with moderately difficult people
- Too many people occupying the same ground
- Bureaucratic sources of trouble
- Impossible relationships
- 6 "The Way We Do Things Around Here": Organisational Culture
- Different forms of organisation
- How to behave as a new employee
- Avoiding the pitfalls of culture conflicts
- Team Roles and culture
- Combination cultures
- Changing and influencing company culture
- 7 Moving Forward in Your Career
- Getting promoted
- Am I suited to management?
- 8 Entering into Management
- Allocating work
- Different management styles
- Building yourself a talented team
- Humility versus ego
- Ten tips for managers
- What now?
- Appendices
