Team advantages/disadvantages

Advantages

• Provides a larger pool of ideas

• Interaction enhances the knowledge of the whole team

• Individuals working together can stimulate performance, motivation and output

• Provides continuity across the tasks if people leave

• Increased ownership of the overall outcome & not just the individual component

Disadvantages

• It takes time, effort and skill to manage

• Some may get overshadowed, overwhelmed

• Unequal involvement - some people may not pull their weight

• One person can demoralise the whole team

• Social loafing

• Group think