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    better group or community. Building One to One Relationships Herman Boone has been hired as a black head coach by the newly integrated T.C. Williams High School. Boone’s hiring is greeted with hostility by the white coaching staff‚ players‚ and the community and is a personal insult to existing head coach Bill Yoast. The first one to one relationship begins when Boone offers Yoast‚ an assistant coaching position. Yoast and Boone build a one to one relationship and urge the players to do the

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    tale‚ but when it comes to the topic of racism‚ some parts of truth must be shown to have an effective film. 

 The film begins with the integration of an all-black high school with an all-white high school. As a result‚ a black head coach‚ Herman Boone (Denzel Washington)‚ takes over the high schools football team‚ much to the annoyance of the white players and coaches. He is taking up a huge role as a football coach and a leader as this is the first integrated

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    opener. He was quickly benched after having trouble with ball security in the first game‚ which they lost due to turnovers. In the following week during practice coach Herman Boone provided Pete with a few cues on ball security. First‚ he told him to keep the ball close to his body so he will always have a feel for it. Then Coach Boone said‚ “When running with the ball‚ keep

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    coach Herman Boone was hired on. The main plot of this movie is regarding the coaching change in the school and the 1971 football season the TC Williams Titans have. During the movie we see that each of the people that we meet establish certain roles that are crucial to the plot of the story‚ not to mention the result of the Titan’s season. Leadership is a key point in the movie. Leadership is shown in many ways in the movie and leadership is represented through main characters. Coach Boone first

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    hierarchy of needs (Hughes‚ Ginnett‚ Curphy‚ 2006) and the four frames to evaluate change i.e. the structural frame‚ the human resource frame‚ the political frame‚ and symbolic frame. The movie “Remember the Titans” revolves around two coaches named Herman Boone and Bill Yoast and how their integration of the first desegregated football team united a segregated town through the success high school football team. This process required highly effective leadership skills. From the beginning of the movie‚

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    Herman Boone was a highly successful and respected high school football coach. His most successful years were in 60s and 70s. He is probably best known for his 1971 season. That was his first year coaching at T.C. Williams High school. Tensions were high‚ because the school district had just became integrated. Racism was a huge problem in Alexandria‚ Virginia‚ consequently‚ this lead to complicated times trying to bring the team together. In an effort to bond the team‚ Coach Boone took them to Gettysburg

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    coach Boone explaining coach Yoast the true meaning of treating diversity fairly when coach Yoast supports African American players with special attention: “I may be a mean cuss‚ but I am the same mean cuss with everybody out there on that football team field. The world don’t give a damn about how sensitive these kids are – especially the young black kids. You ain’t doing these kids a favor by patronizing them. You’re crippling them. You’re crippling them for life.” By this quote‚ coach Boone explains

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    understanding of the movie. The movie begins with an African American head football coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) being hired to replace a white football coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton) who has decided to move on to other coaching opportunities. Due to some disagreement amongst the white players on the team‚ Coach Boone offers Coach Yoast an assistant coordinating coach position‚ to which he eventually accepts. Coach Boone‚ a tough but fair head coach‚ sends the integrated football team to a two-week

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    Coach Boone is constantly a source of leadership for his players and eventually the entire community. There are many times when power come into play both on and off the field. Some examples of this power that is demonstrated in the movie are referent power‚ coercive power‚ need for power (both personalized and socialized)‚ legitimate power and reward power. These leadership concepts are constant through the movie as well as in specific clips. Referent power is crucial for Coach Boone to run his

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    (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

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