When team chemistry is high, and everything is running smooth you can often see that in resulting in wins and team success. A well-oiled machine will still have its kinks the longer it works. So expecting tension on a team is to be expected. The management of this tension and the outlets provided for this is what makes a good team great. I see this issue being broke down into 3 different steps. Preventative, adjustments, and overhaul.
1. Preventative for me is team building activities and allowing different platforms for discussion. This allows for issues to be brought to attention rather than players bottling up their complaints and just exploding at some point.
2. Adjustments – This is where the coaching staff has noticed the players have not taking the opportunities to bring their issues into discussions and have started creating tension between players. At this point the coaches evaluate the situation and strategically place these players vs each other in varies drills and competition to allow for a natural release of some of the anger and tension. This often leads to some of the best competitions in practices. If you are going to complain about someone you better be able to beat them.
3. If the in-practice competitions no longer work. A coach will take aside the 2 players along with the team captain to discuss the matters at hand. I hope at this point the players will realize that the proper conflict resolution was not taken advantage of and this is the last effort before severe changes must take place. My team along with my coaches would prefer great team chemistry vs a great player / athlete. If the conflict cannot be resolved one or both of the players would be removed from the team to regain a conflict free team. I'll assure you the treat of being removed from a winning team is more than enough for players to find any way to fix the conflict and move on.
1. Preventative for me is team building activities and allowing different platforms for discussion. This allows for issues to be brought to attention rather than players bottling up their complaints and just exploding at some point.
2. Adjustments – This is where the coaching staff has noticed the players have not taking the opportunities to bring their issues into discussions and have started creating tension between players. At this point the coaches evaluate the situation and strategically place these players vs each other in varies drills and competition to allow for a natural release of some of the anger and tension. This often leads to some of the best competitions in practices. If you are going to complain about someone you better be able to beat them.
3. If the in-practice competitions no longer work. A coach will take aside the 2 players along with the team captain to discuss the matters at hand. I hope at this point the players will realize that the proper conflict resolution was not taken advantage of and this is the last effort before severe changes must take place. My team along with my coaches would prefer great team chemistry vs a great player / athlete. If the conflict cannot be resolved one or both of the players would be removed from the team to regain a conflict free team. I'll assure you the treat of being removed from a winning team is more than enough for players to find any way to fix the conflict and move on.