Why the closest friends may not be the best teammates

TOO MANY OPTIONS

With competitions or group projects limiting the number of members a team can have, the first decision you have to make and the problem you have to face is deciding who gets into the team and who doesn't. This happens more often when your friend circle is comparatively large and you cannot accommodate all of them into the team. The remaining ones can form their own team though, but that being said, they're more likely to get into a state of emotional despair we most commonly refer to as "senti".

SLACKING

Delaying pre-scheduled plans are not uncommon between friends. In fact, not living up to the commitments you make is semi-imperative when it comes to friendship. This assumed pre-requisite of your friendship will eventually go on to haunt you in your group work. You're bound to find one or a few of your mates, if not all, slacking off during work. Such situations will be hard to sort out as you will be confused how to tell off your closest friends when they're not following the team work protocol the leader might have established.

DISAGREEMENTS THAT LEAD TO QUARRELS

Disagreements among teammates are bound to pop up every now and then during your group work. But what makes such disagreements problematic when it takes place between your friends is that these minor clash of ideas or proposals will lead to fights and fissures in your friendship. No one would like to risk their friendship for the sake of working on a project with their friends.

AND SO THE FIGHTS

The smallest of quarrels are bound to break into the biggest of fights between your friends when you're in a team. The passing of opinions and ideas happens the most when you're surrounded by your friends. This exchange will not always be well received by some and given that you guys are best buds, there are high chances someone will take the liberty to harshly criticise those ideas. Thus, such criticism and its counter argument will only lead to further chaos in your team.

THE BLAME GAME

If things go wrong, there are chances that your friends and/or teammates will start pointing fingers at one another. Thus begins the blame game. Instead of taking responsibility on their own shoulders, they might just blame someone else on the team adding more chaos to the already damaged friendship.

Faisal wants to be the very best, like no one ever was. To survive university is his real test, to graduate is his cause. Send him memes and motivation at abir.afc@gmail.com