Week Ten

I’m right in the middle of my season for softball, and for this week, I’m going to talk about how my team has issues that could be solved using PR tactics.

For the most part, we are a very healthy group of girls. I would challenge anyone to find a set of 18 females who get along as a unit as well as we do. They’re my best friends in the world, and I think they always will be. There’s something about being a part of a team that makes you have closer friends I think than you ever will have from another group of people. The "something" is the amount of time you spend with one another.

Along with the time commitment, though, comes tension and disagreement and personality clashes and a little bit of drama. We’re with one another six days a week for four months, and after a while I guess it’s inevitable that claws are going to come out.

During the games now, some of the non-starters bicker on the bench about how they could be doing a better job or how things are ridiculous or whatever. It makes me think about how I could fix the problem through some of the things I have learned in class.

I think the best way to handle a team is to think in communitarianism ethics. We have to work for the betterment of the majority and within our community. We have to do what’s best for the most of us. Not everybody is going to be happy all of the time.

And we are doing that. The majority of the team doesn’t bitch all of the time and isn’t negative. But it’s those couple people who hold us back from something more that we all deserve.

How do you handle co-workers who aren’t on the same page as the rest? How do you get them on the bandwagon? Is it best to get rid of them? Is it best to let them go and have them wear themselves out? What if you have done too much mentoring already and your words fall on deaf ears?

It's wearing.