I&#39;m nervous about teams larger than 7 because it is REALLY hard for all of the members to to develop into a real team. In part, it&#39;s simply due to the fact that the number of potential connections between members goes up exponentially (not linearly). In fact, unless the space they work in is really flexible, I&#39;m nervous about teams of seven. For example, in the room I have to teach in, having teams of 7 means that 4 members have to sit on the same side of a long table with the chairs attached to the table. That means that the two on the ends often have difficulty hearing and the two in the middle have to deliberately lean back to enable the folks on the end see each others&#39; facial expressions. That&#39;s not a good situation.<div>
<br></div><div>I hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Larry <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Eli CollinsBrown <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3D1203%26L%3DTEAMLEARNING-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D120823%26B%3D--20cf3074b47e7bb64c04bac0788e%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Following up on the question of TBL team/group size, we are planning on groups of 8 and have based our increase in enrollment each year based on this number.  Most of you have said teams of 6 or 7.  Are there advantages/disadvantages to having teams of 8?</div>
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