teams

my freshman year I was part of the OSU crew team for the first few weeks we were in the pseudo community phase in which we were all relatively nice to each other both it was superficial no one really cared about the others we were all just there, then when boat assignments came out we entered the chaos faces in which everyone was joking for position trying to get into the top slots and in the positions they wanted then we moved into the third stage realizing that at the end of the day we won or lost as a team and we couldn’t continue to fight amongst ourselves. This realization led into the last phase of true community in which we all worked together that’s not to say we all agreed but we were able to put personal feelings aside and work together. Consensus played a key role in the third and fourth stages of is development as a team. It wasn’t until everyone’s voices were heard versus only the loudest that we could finally come to terms and move forwards as a team.