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@JPLindsley@anno1540 There are alot of russian trolls in the comments. It only shows that Moscow is trying to influence people. But guess what? It's not working.
Most players hear "communication" and think speaking. They forget that listening is half of it, and probably the more important half.
Active listening starts somewhere simple: actually valuing the other person's opinion enough to want to hear it. In a setting as tight as an esports team, that matters more than people think.
Something I've seen to be a tendency in some teams is the opposite. Players and coaches interrupt each other, rarely letting anyone finish a point. So people talk louder, have to compete just to be heard, and become more attached to their own points, focusing on defending themselves because they feel attacked. Eventually the discussion turns into a contest over who gets the last word.
But a team discussion isn't won by proving everyone else wrong. That's just ego. From what I've seen in teams that actually become winning teams, there's only one real win in a team discussion: finding a solution the whole team can buy into and move forward with. It doesn't matter whose idea it was. It matters that the team found it together.
That's why listening is the foundation. Once players start letting each other finish, the discussions get calmer, the solutions get better, and the team builds the one thing it can't develop without: the ability to talk about anything.