(S29) PT 5 - Arguements

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A fight broke out between your teammates during training, causing great concern within the locker room and organisation as a whole. Your coaches have asked you to help restore the harmony in the locker room. How would you approach this situation? Would you address the individuals directly or the team as a whole? Would there be a specific teammate you would get on board to help you?

When it comes to disagreements on a team, my first consideration is around what players/positions are involved. It's relatively common for offense and defense to get into each other due to the way they're competing directly against each other in practice, and so I think that by this point we have a good sense of how to involve the position leaders or the O/D captains if needed to smooth those out. That kind of thing happens often enough that it's easy to smooth over, so thinking about something that's larger scale and actually of concern to the entire organization is a bit more extreme and weird. I'd probably start with the same approach, though probably involving the captains immediately. If the issue is something direct - the fighting individuals disagreeing over something, maybe - I'd think that should be enough. If it was bigger, maybe about the entire direction of the team or a whole positional group not liking the playcalling, we'd probably need to pull in the relevant coaches since it'd clearly be a bigger concern. One of the specific tricks I've seen is to get the people who have issues to write them down (anonymously), mix up all the issues in a hat, and then read through them. That can be a good way to either make it clear how smaller issues aren't major or to see common themes of concern that multiple people have and we'd need to come up with a plan for. Beyond that, it'd depend on the specifics of the issue - if it's something like the state of the community where we could take action by working with others or something that would provide a clear direction, while if it's more abstract like concerns about systemic poverty, I don't really know what we could do? Maybe trying to figure out how to narrow down the problem to something relevant to the team members and figuring out some specific way we could make it better, but that might not be possible depending on the specifics.