Leadership and the Film Remember the Titans a Review
Leadership and the film Remember the Titans
A Review
Movie Team Three
Jon Atkins, Mike Russo, & Matt Brown
Psychology 485
Professor Thoroughgood
June 23, 2012
Movie Team Three reviewed and discussed the film Remember the Titans (Bruckheimer, Oman, & Yakin, 2000). While each member brought up differing perspectives on team leadership principles, there was also a fair amount of consistency across our individual responses. We all appear to agree that while the character of Coach Boone takes a leading role and the focus of the film, the leadership expertise portrayed is not localized to his character alone. Rather, team leadership is exhibited by multiple characters throughout the film. As such, the film is rife with material that demonstrates numerous concepts from the text and lesson on "Team Leadership" (Northouse, 2010, p. 240). The principal aim of this summary is to briefly outline the key points of our discussion on the film and how it correlates with the concepts embedded in the Team Leadership perspective.
Tuckman (1965) Group Stages One concept that everyone in the group recognized is Tuckman 's (1965) "Group Stages" idea (forming, norming, storming, and performing) and how the team transformed as a group through each respective stage (PSU WC, Lesson 12). For example, we mention that the initiation of group activity, or "forming" stage, takes place as Coach Boone mandates that all players ride on the bus with either defense or offense, depending on their desired position. This begins the process of "forming" as each player is forced to interact with team members of the opposite race. Likewise, we also discuss the "norming" stage in the scene where Blue, Gerry, and Julius call a team meeting one evening in the gym to reaffirm their commitment to the values of respect for one another, perfection in performance, and teamwork, which they began to develop at camp. It is only after this point in the film that we see the Titan 's team
A Review
Movie Team Three
Jon Atkins, Mike Russo, & Matt Brown
Psychology 485
Professor Thoroughgood
June 23, 2012
Movie Team Three reviewed and discussed the film Remember the Titans (Bruckheimer, Oman, & Yakin, 2000). While each member brought up differing perspectives on team leadership principles, there was also a fair amount of consistency across our individual responses. We all appear to agree that while the character of Coach Boone takes a leading role and the focus of the film, the leadership expertise portrayed is not localized to his character alone. Rather, team leadership is exhibited by multiple characters throughout the film. As such, the film is rife with material that demonstrates numerous concepts from the text and lesson on "Team Leadership" (Northouse, 2010, p. 240). The principal aim of this summary is to briefly outline the key points of our discussion on the film and how it correlates with the concepts embedded in the Team Leadership perspective.
Tuckman (1965) Group Stages One concept that everyone in the group recognized is Tuckman 's (1965) "Group Stages" idea (forming, norming, storming, and performing) and how the team transformed as a group through each respective stage (PSU WC, Lesson 12). For example, we mention that the initiation of group activity, or "forming" stage, takes place as Coach Boone mandates that all players ride on the bus with either defense or offense, depending on their desired position. This begins the process of "forming" as each player is forced to interact with team members of the opposite race. Likewise, we also discuss the "norming" stage in the scene where Blue, Gerry, and Julius call a team meeting one evening in the gym to reaffirm their commitment to the values of respect for one another, perfection in performance, and teamwork, which they began to develop at camp. It is only after this point in the film that we see the Titan 's team
References: Bruckheimer, J & Oman, C. (Producers), & Yakin, B. (Director). (2000). Remember the Titans [Motion Picture]. United States: Walt Disney Pictures. Lesson 6: Team Leadership. (2011). Pennsylvania State University World Campus. Retrieved from https://elearning.la.psu.edu/psch485/lesson_6 Lesson 12: Team Leadership. (2011). Pennsylvania State University World Campus. Retrieved from https://elearning.la.psu.edu/psch485/lesson_12/lesson-12 Northouse, Peter, G. (2010). Leadership: Theory and Practice. SAGE Publications.