Susan Jones the manager at the printing company made several mistakes in putting the team together. In my opinion, the first mistake was the size of the team. In building the team Susan had too many employees assigned to the tasks. According to the text, larger teams are less cohesive, members tend to participate less often in team activities and less likely to cooperate with each other (Thompson, 2014, p. 85). The group consisted of twenty five employees, typically an effective team should consist of less than ten employees. It appears that due to the last team experience, many of the employees had a negative experience, which could potentially affect the outcome of the assigned tasks. Susan could have done a better job at reassuring the team