Visual Inventory

1. Advantages /
Disadvantages of Teams
(Start to Delivery)
By: Diego, Ashima, Nic, Jon

2. Types of Teams
(chosen or arbitrary)

3. Advantages (chosen):
- Better chemistry
- Known strengths and weaknesses in group members

4. Advantages (chosen):
- Quicker decision making
- Less individual stress

5. Disadvantages (chosen):
• Slacking off
• Biased opinions

6. Disadvantages (chosen):
• May choose friends instead of the right people for the job
• Reduced conflict ( little argument to express different ideas)

7. Advantages (arbitrary):
• Forces an amount of work
• Team development
• Different ideas

8. Disadvantages (arbitrary):
• Little team chemistry
• Unknown team weaknesses
• More time required to make decisions

9. Team Leader
How does it affect the team by
having a team leader?

10. Advantages
• Dispersed responsibilities
• Better time management

11. Advantages
• Reliable
• Team Structure

12. Disadvantages
• Problem solving depends on the leader's ability
• Leader may not know all members

13. Disadvantages
• Abused authority
• Leader is responsible for all team work (increased stress)
(Accountability)

14. Distribution of Work
How Does Having A Team Make Work
Easier/Harder?

15. Advantages
• Even distribution of work
• Efficiency

16. Advantages
• Less individual stress
• Compensating for individual weaknesses results in better
overall quality

17. Disadvantages
• Dissent
• Trusting people will do their share of the work

18. Disadvantages
• Communication issues
• Uneven distribution of work leads to less efficiency

19. Collaboration of Ideas
How do different ideas and beliefs impact a team?

20. Advantages
• Diversity
• Team Development
• People with different backgrounds bring their own expertise

21. Advantage
• Diversity
• Cultural differences may bring different ideas
• Personality differences may bring different ideas

22. Disadvantages
• Roles and responsibilities
• Differences in personalities may cause conflict
• Longer process for decision making due to disagreements /
differences

23. Disadvantages
• Cultural differences may lead to conflict
• Personality differences may lead to conflict

24. Conflict
How Does It Play a Role As a Team Advantage or
Disadvantage?

25. Advantages
• Conflict creates new ideas that may not have been there before
• You learn how to work with people who have different opinions
or point of views

26. Advantages
• You may see a new perspective on something you were not
aware of before
• Practise communication
• Understanding yourself

27. Disadvantages
• Values of a team
• Individual Conflicts
• dogmatic personality
• unaccepting facts

28. Disadvantages
• Team conflict
• Waste of time (get little work done)
• May cause emotional or physical damage
• Reduced productivity

29. Delivery of Content
How does a team deliver their content?

30. Advantages
• Higher quality content
• Revised by a group

31. Disadvantages
• Inconsistency (lack of flow)
• Miscommunication

32. End