Proof Read for me please – “remember the titans leadership”?
The movie Remember the Titans provides an excellent study of leadership principles and challenges in the imperfect environment typical in real-life leadership scenarios. Coach Boone is a great example of a leader. He knows he faces a tough year of teaching his team. Instead of listening to the hating town or administrators, Boone pushes his team to their limits and forces good relationships between players, regardless of race. His vision for the team involves getting the players concerned in what the team needs to become. Coach Boone realizes to be able to go forward towards a goal, everyone has to believe in and commit to a common purpose.
Boone and Yoast provide a good example of the difference between leaders and managers. The two coaches don’t see eye-to-eye on the best way to manage the team. Boone is a charismatic leader with a brutal, military-style approach to coaching. He believes in breaking the players down and then re-building them as a team. Yoast is more laid-back and conservative and feels Boone is pushing the players too hard. This difference in coaching styles leads to several confrontations between the two coaches and between the players. The clash between Boone and Yoast represents what can happen when two very different leaders attempt to achieve the same goal using different approaches in real the work place.
The movie shows that no matter how different you are with others, if you have a clear vision and on the same page, you can be successful. Once the coaches were able to develop positive relationships with the players, they were able to work together towards the common goal.
To be able to accept the message, you must be able to accept the messenger giving it to you. At first they did not believe into Coach Boone, therefore they did not accept the message he had. During training camp, Boone pairs black players with white players and instructs them to learn about each other. This idea is met with a lot of fighting, but black linebacker Julius Campbell and stubborn white All-American Gerry Bertier end up getting a strong bond through Boone’s heavy discipline. Boone teaches them that they can build their strengths and look beyond everything and when they work together much more is accomplished.
Boone also uses both power and authority with his position as Head Coach to get his way. Since he is Black and has power, the white players do not immediately accept Boone’s authority. Many threaten to quit the team if Boone remains as head coach, and their parent’s pressure to move their children to other schools. Boone must use power and mind-games to force the players to tolerate each other until he can help them look beyond the racial conflict. When training camp at the college ended, the players gradually respected his leadership more and more and no longer saw his power as unlawful or hurtful. The players thus agreed with Coach Boone’s philosophy and became friends with one another. The teammates learn about personal accountability and responsibility throughout the movie.
While many people seek to avoid conflict, leaders realize conflict can bring an opportunity for change or revitalization. Boone knows when to amplify conflict, when to escalate conflict and when to move the team away from divisiveness and toward a vision of the common good.
When Boone’s tactics finally began to pay off, the players start to recognize who they are and where they want to go as a team. Each player on the team learns to have respect and loyalty for one another. They each become leaders on the football field and at school. Even assistant Coach Yoast comes around and starts to respect Boone’s management and leadership skills. The players and the assistant coach are learning you don’t sit and fight about something, you fix it. Coach Boone creates relationships with the players, which is crucial in management. The players finally see that Coach Boone has credibility, now players are motivated to work harder because he is so motivated towards the team. With everyone respecting each other, a clear vision of the goal and team work they are able to accomplish there goals.
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The movie Remember the Titans provides an excellent study of leadership principles and challenges in the imperfect environment typical [to] real-life leadership scenarios. Coach Boone is a great example of a leader. [Despite difficult school and community politics,] Boone [is able to create] good relationships between players, regardless of race. His vision for the team involves getting the players concerned in what the team needs to become. Coach Boone realizes [that in order to succeed], everyone [on the team] has to believe in and commit to a common purpose.
Boone and [his assistant coach] Yoast provide a good example of the difference between leaders and managers. The two coaches don’t see eye-to-eye on the best way to manage the team. Boone is a charismatic leader with a brutal, military-style approach to coaching. He believes in breaking the players down and then re-building them as a team. Yoast is more laid-back and conservative and feels Boone is pushing the players too hard. This difference in coaching styles leads to several confrontations between the two coaches and between the players. The clash between Boone and Yoast represents what can happen when two very different leaders attempt to achieve the same goal using different approaches in real the work place.
[The movie shows that no matter how different you are with others, if you have a clear vision and on the same page, you can be successful.- Cut this, it isn't true, many people have clear plans and still fail] [Once the coaches were able to develop positive relationships with the players, they were able to work together towards the common goal.- Cut this, you already said it in the first paragraph]
To be able to accept the message, you must be able to accept the messenger giving it to you. At first [they- who? be specific, players, community] did not believe into Coach Boone, therefore they did not accept the message he had. During training camp, Boone pairs black players with white players and instructs them to learn about each other. This idea is met with [hostility], but black linebacker Julius Campbell and [cute stubborn] white All-American Gerry Bertier [develop] a strong bond through Boone’s heavy discipline. [Boone teaches them that they can build their strengths and look beyond everything and when they work together much more is accomplished.- too many ands, cut down or make two sentences]
Boone also uses both power and authority [through] his position as Head Coach to [achieve his goals]. Since he is Black and has power, the white players do not immediately accept Boone’s authority. Many threaten to quit the team if Boone remains as head coach, and their parent’s pressure to move their children to other schools. Boone must use power and [mind-games- change this word, it is very unappealing] to force the players to tolerate each other until he can help them look beyond the racial conflict. [When training camp at the college ended- you haven't mentioned a training camp before, set this up better], the players gradually respected his leadership more and more and no longer saw his power as unlawful or hurtful. The players thus agreed with Coach Boone’s philosophy and became friends with one another. The teammates learn about personal accountability and responsibility throughout the movie.
[While many people seek to avoid conflict, leaders realize conflict can bring an opportunity for change or revitalization. Boone knows when to amplify conflict, when to escalate conflict and when to move the team away from divisiveness and toward a vision of the common good.- you need examples of these things to support your statement]
When Boone’s tactics finally began to pay off, the players start to recognize who they are and where they want to go as a team. Each player on the team learns to have respect and loyalty for one another. They each become leaders on the football field and at school. Even assistant Coach Yoast comes around and starts to respect Boone’s management and leadership skills. The players and the assistant coach are learning you don’t sit and fight about something, you fix it. Coach Boone creates relationships with the players, which is crucial in management. The players finally see that Coach Boone has credibility, now players are motivated to work harder because he is so motivated towards the team. With everyone respecting each other, a clear vision of the goal and team work they are able to accomplish theIR goals.
His vision for the team involves getting the players concerned ABOUT what the team needs to become.
Coach Boone realizes THAT IN ORDER TO MOVE forward toward(XX take out the “s”) a goal, everyone has to believe in and commit to a common purpose.
At first they did not believe in(XX take out “to) Coach Boone, therefore they did not accept the message he had
The players and the assistant coach LEARN THAT ONE DOESN’T sit and fight about something, ONE SHOULD fix it.
The players finally see that Coach Boone has credibility, AND players are motivated to work harder because he is so motivated towards the team.
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