Just because someone is your relative, doesn’t mean you two like each other. However, when it comes to friends you don’t have that problem and that happens mainly because before choosing with whom you will build a strong friendship, you start a long thought process in order to see, if that person has common things with you, if his/her personality fits with yours.
In most cases, once we identify someone as our friend it means we know him to the extend in which we are able to tell whether we agree in most of his idiosyncrasy. Also, if we like the same things and we are aware of some opinions or actions, that we might don’t agree with. However we manage to compromise.
Almost with the same process as referred above the selection of teammates is being implied, as far as creating a team is concerned . Since my area of expertise is eSports, I will explain what I mean from my personal experience. In order for a team to work effectively and produce satisfying results, skilled players are far from needed. Thus, more importantly, those chosen players should also have the ability to manifest a sufficient cooperation with each other. If those players manage to develop strong bonds, they will eventually be more capable to overcome difficulties together, receive proper training and become better as both players and human beings. However, if that’s not the case and the players are exceptionally skilled but can’t cooperate with each other, no matter how hard they try as individuals, in a team game, due to lack of effective cooperation, they will not be able to win a well bonded team.Besides, the “whole” is not just a plain sum of the individual parts but something bigger and that is what some call “synergy”.
When I created Invisible Threat Gaming, the core value of the organisation was the word “Family”. It was pretty clear that both the staff and the players should have a common goal and work together in order to achieve it. To do so, they had to help each other inside and outside the video game aspect. That might be considered a great factor to creating a “family” with members from all over the world. Lots of them in the passage of time came and left some quickly some stayed a little further but the ones who had the same family mindset still provide their help, even though they are not members of the organization anymore.
It’s truly exceptional what a group of people can do together, when they share the same goals. I strongly believe that when it comes to creating a team simultaneously with the mobilization of the members, cultivating the mindset of “Family” is most important than anything.
And remember, we can’t choose our relatives, but we can choose our family!
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