When i think of pecks theory i look no further then my lacrosse team from my senior season in high school. We went through all these stages and grew as people and players.
The first stage, pseudocommunity, is described as one where there doesn't seem to be many problems and people get along. My team was much like this because almost all of us were really good friends and we hung out outside of school all the time. Everything seemed like we would be one of the most close knit teams i would be a part of.
The next stage comes from different individuals stating their views and that leads to chaos. My team very clearly went through this at the beginning of our season. Many people believed that our coach didn't really know what he was doing. They questioned who he played and many of our playing strategies. There started to be a schism between the guys that supported the coach and guys that didn't.
the next stage is the realization of the barrier that is being built from the disagreement. we had a large fight breakout in our locker room and realized it was time to sit down and talk about our issues. We held a captains meeting and talked everything out and fixed all the issues so we could move on which led to the next stage.
The final stage was the team coming together. We finally started to win games after starting the season off with a lot of losses and started playing like a team. We ended up getting everything together and went on a long playoff run that ended at the hands of a team that won four straight championships and we were the only team to lose by just 1 to them.
I learned a lot from this experience and i believe the application of pecks theory was something that came naturally to us and if we had known about it before we could have turned things around earlier before it became a serious problem in our locker room.
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