Teams help agents hone specialties, fast track growth A group of panelists argued at Connect Now on Tuesday that real estate teams have an array of benefits for agents, and that teams will only become more popular Clockwise from top left, Wilson Leung, Vija Williams, Renee Funk and Jacqueline Smith at Inman Connect Now Tuesday. Inman From: Inman Connect Surgeons are highly specialized. When they perform surgeries, for instance, they don’t also act as their own assistants. And after the operation concludes, they don’t step in as the nurse and oversee a patient’s recovery. Instead, they do the thing that adds the most value for their patients, and they stick to that.