Question

3000 words about how a Belbin team role.        - plant- works in civil engineering field.

Answer 1

PLANT :

Plant are good person to ask about the most innovative solutions that can be used to improve the work. They help team in overcoming different challenges of the project or work. They have fresh ideas with them which helps the team in tackling different problems of the project. They don't have good communication skills and are usually introvert person. They like to get praised by the teammates but are very sensitive to negative criticism. They find difficult to share their ideas with other teammates in the project as they find it difficult to communicate with others. Multiple plants can create misunderstanding in the project due to generation of different ideas. They also create problems due to mismatch of the timing of the idea generation. They are also impractical sometimes.

And also plants are creative, unorthodox and generators of ideas. If an innovative solution to a problem is needed, a Plant is a good person to ask. A good Plant will be bright and free-thinking. Plants can tend to ignore incidentals. The Plant might be caricatured as the absent-minded professor/inventor, and often has a hard time communicating ideas to others. Multiple Plants in a team can lead to misunderstandings, as many ideas are generated without sufficient discernment or the impetus to follow the ideas through to action. Plants can also create problems with the timing of their ideas. The fact that the team has decided on a valid way forward and is now in the implementation stage will not stop the Plant from coming up with new solutions and disrupting the implementation process. Belbin observed, "We called these clever people plants, because the chaps at Henley insisted we plant one in each group".

Strengths: Creative, imaginative, free-thinking, generates ideas and solves difficult problems.

Allowable weaknesses: Might ignore incidentals, and may be too preoccupied to communicate effectively.

Don't be surprised to find that: They could be absent-minded or forgetful.