Are Partnerships Better Than Teams?

Within advertising and in many other professions, there will be positions and disciplines that require you to manage large teams where different levels of seniority need managing or you are just in a small team with one other.

For example, you could be a creative lead who has to manager a range of senior and junior members and to juggle each of their own developments and growths or you could be a media specialist where it could be just you and one other to handle a client or clients media needs.

Question is, which structure best fits your position and personality? Although you might just working with 1 or 2 trusted and competent colleagues, your position might require you to work with a larger group.

Here are the top 3 considerations to think of.

1. Is cross-collaboration needed in your skill-set and position?
When it comes to a partnership vs a team, a team is able to provide multiple perspective of identifying problems, constructing solutions, and generating team unity whereas a partnership is quite limited on this. So if you position requires various lanes of thought compared to a strict range of thinking, maybe a team is better.

2. Do you like dealing with human relationships and growth?
A team offers you a constant set of changing situations that requires handling and addressing to keep the team together and moving together whereas a partnership greatly reduces these interactions as you can keep a close eye on just one person. A team offers a great opportunity on how to address, deal, manage, grow, and lead a group of human beings that can set you up for success in future phases of a career.

3, Is growth for your career more on skill knowledge and experience?
Positions that revolve around Tech, Data, and Production requires specialist people that are the best in the world in their field. They might not be the easiest to work with or the friendliest person to be around but they are essential for the company to employ because they provide a specific solution to clients. If your position sounds similar to this then probably a partnership is better as it gives you more time and effort to focus on your career and skills without focusing too much on everyone else