Max's part (Holden interview)

Holden Higby, a member of the Purdue Men's Swimming and Diving Team, discusses how conflicts with teammates can impact productivity and motivation. He shares instances where a teammate's negative behavior brought down the group and made him less motivated to come to practice. The teammate would belittle other members, which made Holden not want to attend practice. This affected his motivation and overall work. Today, we'll be welcoming Holden Higby. Holden is on the Purdue Men's Swimming and Diving Team, and we're interested in hearing how your experience being on a competitive team like this relates to our topic of the effects of workplace or interpersonal conflicts on productivity motivation. So I just have a few questions for you. Holden, introduce yourself. Hi, my name's Holden. So Holden, you're a freshman yet? Yes. Can you think of any time a personal conflict with a teammate has distracted you from your work? Yeah, there has been some times where it's, there's just a teammate like kind of dragging the whole group down, honestly, like, they just bring it down with them. Yeah, I understand that. And I feel like a lot of us can relate to that. Were there any moments where you were less motivated to come to practice or try your best because you knew you'd have to face this person? Yeah. Like sometimes when I would go in, like, he would just like, I don't know, he would belittle like a lot of the kids in the group and really just like talk bad about them to their faces. And it really just made me not want to come in some mornings. Yeah. And so his presence really affected your, your work because it motivated you less and you didn't want to go in and have to worry about seeing him in the hallway, seeing him, you know, on pool deck. And so that's, that affects you in a big way, right? Yeah. Yeah. It's like very unmotivating. Yeah. All right. Well, I appreciate your time, Holden. Thank you.