Team building can be a distraction
Team culture building exercises are often a nuisance for players, Glen Turner says on stuff.co.nz
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
Team culture building exercises are often a nuisance for players, Glen Turner says on stuff.co.nz. He says cricket is a game that is still revolved heavily around individuals and those individuals respond to motivation in different ways, and hence should be given freedom to prepare and think in the way they want to.
All of the attempts at cultural transformation and the flood of peripheral information seem to largely ignore the character and entrenched practised behaviour of people generally. To think that players' behaviours and motivational stimulus are going to change overnight is unrealistic, no matter how well the various corrective measure programmes are presented. The make-up, personality and state of mind of players varies from bullet proof to depressed. Players within the same team are personally stimulated by all sorts of things. They range from internal to external drivers; from self fulfilment, to doing it for others; to national pride, to money and statistics.
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo