Welcome to CERT – your specialist provider of Belbin Team Role assessments and reports for over 40 years.
Our Services
We provide the full range of the latest Belbin assessments and reports
Individual, Team, Job Matching and Working Relationships.
Advanced customised reports
These advanced reports provide advice on such things as Leadership and Management Style and Career Planning.
Competitive prices
We promise you the lowest possible prices for the Belbin and advanced reports. If you are new to Belbin or a registered charity ask about our special introductory offers.
FREE help and support
To ensure you derive full benefit from using Belbin we share our experience and expertise with you by providing FREE email, phone and Zoom help and support.
About the Belbin Reports
Individual Reports
Raise self-awareness and enhance personal effectiveness to enable each person to achieve personal fulfilment and maximise their contribution.
Team Reports
Provide analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the team and thereby enable strategies to be devised to leverage strengths and address any weaknesses.
Job Reports
Help ensure the right people are matched to the right jobs to ensuring enduring high performance.
Working Relationship Reports
Identify and manage potentially difficult chemistry and help promote productive workplace relationships.
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Meet the founder
Hi, I’m Barrie Watson the founder of CERT. If you would like to know a bit about me read on.
First, let me be completely honest with you. As an octogenarian, I have made my share of mistakes, but I have also enjoyed some notable successes. This puts me in a good position to help others avoid some of those mistakes and, perhaps, replicate some of the successes.
So, if you think I may be able to help you, please do contact me and let’s arrange a chat.
Want to know a little more about me?
I have been described as a practical, “hands-on” businessman with a passion for unleashing the potential of people and I can’t argue with that. It is this mission that continues to motivate me and keeps me going.
Before joining CERT in 1986, I was chairman of a major marketing group and a director of two retail organisations. I later became a non-executive director of Belbin Associates and collaborated closely with Dr Meredith Belbin for more than 40 years.
In my book, The Art of Enablership: Rethinking Leadership for a Complex World, I challenge one of our most deeply rooted assumptions: that progress depends on those at the top making the right decisions.
Instead, I explore the possibility that constantly searching for more leaders may not be the solution but part of the problem. I also present compelling evidence that traditional leadership thinking can limit performance rather than enhance it.
If you, too, question our over-reliance on leadership, please take a look at my book and do let me know what you think.
The Art of Enablership is available from Amazon in Kindle and paperback editions.
Free Resources
Exercises, slides, handouts etc.
We have developed hundreds of exercises, slide presentations, handouts and support material to enable trainers, coaches and facilitators to deploy the Belbin methodology. These are all available for use by our clients FREE of charge.
The Delegation Master Model.
The Delegation Master model used with Belbin enables managers to boost their performance by achieving more through others. DOWNLOAD the FREE video HERE and become a Delegation Master.
The Watson Team Performance Indicator (WTPI).
The WTPI is the perfect companion to Belbin. The Belbin team reports provide information on the behavioral strengths and weaknesses of a team. The WTPI provides analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the team’s processes and it’s FREE to use. DOWNLOAD.
See what our clients say
“I have always felt that your customer service was outstanding, but
you truly have outdone yourself this time.
The Belbin reports are so
valuable and amazingly accurate.”
MTB – US Business School
Mike Warren
Finance Manager
“Barrie, it is a great privilege to be your mentee. Thank you for all that your are doing for me! Your capacity to simplify complex concepts and discern the practical from the huge amount of information and knowledge is your superpower. You are one of the brightest minds I have ever encountered.” AR – CEO Romania
Mike Warren
Finance Manager
“As a Professor of management and consultant to many CAC4O index companies, I am extremely happy to use the Belbin Inventory for the Individual development plans of high potential managers. Having used other assessment tools, the Belbin Inventory proves to be the best instrument for the preparation of future leaders. The service brought by CERT is first class and always highly appreciated.” Professor FB – French Business School
Mike Warren
Finance Manager
CERT Case Studies
Results focused team working achieves impressive results
The transformation of a strike crippled bottling and distribution plant becoming the winner of Britain’s Best Factory award.
Customer service transformation
How a major sports venue that was the butt of jokes about the notoriously bad customer services standards became revered as a benchmark for customer service excellence.
We are here to help you
If you would like further information or help or advice please contact us. We will be pleased to hear from you.