We were literally forced to fight each other constantly, the only difference between actual fighting and what we did was just the name, we called it practice. The whole point of training camp was to weed out the weak and earn each other respect, something which was no small task. For me, earning respect was particularly difficult at the beginning; I was smaller than most of my teammates and physically weaker. It was not until we did a something called the “Oklahoma drill”, that I was able to prove myself. The Oklahoma drill is famous for being extremely violent and brutal, it takes guts to willingly take and deliver hits, but somehow I thrived in that environment.
L.L. Bean Relies on Its Core Values and Effective Leadership 1. What style of leadership do you think most L.L. Bean managers probably employ? I believe that managers’ effectiveness often depends on their styles of leadership, that is, their ability to influence others, either formally or informally.
Ben Lewis Leadership Styles Leadership, according to Ken Blanchard, is a process which requires leading a team of people and working alongside them in order to achieve specific goals. While the description is deceptively simple, the techniques used to attain the desired result can vary wildly depending on a number of factors and scenarios. These can range from the specific demands of the task, to time constraints, and personality types, of both the leader and team members. Recognising behavioural traits is important when evaluating leadership techniques because decisions and judgements are made by team members based on the personality and behaviour of the leader. There are a number of models that have been developed to analyse leadership styles and to help me explore my own, I am going to use Douglas McGregor’s “XY Theory”, Ken Blanchard’s “Situational Leadership” and John Adair’s “Action Centred Leadership.” Douglas McGregor – XY Theory X Y Autocratic Style Democratic style McGregor’s theory describes a continuum whereby “X” is at one end of a sliding scale and “Y” the other.
LDR 600 GC Week 5 Discussion 2 How might you compare servant leadership to other scholarly leadership theories and models of leadership? LDR 600 GC Week 6 Discussion 1 Identify and describe one example of a typical team dynamic that a leader may encounter when working with or leading teams. The dynamic may be a negative dynamic, such as conflict, or a positive dynamic, such as alignment around a clear vision for the team. How can leadership address this dynamic? LDR 600 GC Week 6 Discussion 2 What is the relationship between team effectiveness and servant leadership based on research that has been done in this area?
Up until this point in the film, the low angle shot had been used only on Coach Boone, as he is the natural leader. Whenever he is saying something meaningful and inspirational to pull the team together, such as the scene at the training camp on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, he is in low angle. By showing Blue in low angle, the director is showing that the young players are rising to the challenge and taking on real leadership roles. This will be important if racial tension is to be dealt
“Remember the Titans” is a dramatic movie about how two coaches that are two different races, African American and Caucasian, changes the way people view the other race, based on true events and was directed by Boaz Yakin. One of the major themes of the movie is leadership. Leadership can be defined as an act that one can develop by having the ability to lead other towards an ambition. One may say that leadership is a skill that an individual can have. The way to become a leader or to have the skill of leadership is when an individual is an inspiration and a guide to a group of individuals or a person that motivate them to accomplish a goal or goals and must have three characteristics which are fearless, reliable, and focus.
Here we can see the role of the social nature of leadership in the effects of followers on leaders. In the next theories, followers’ reactions and behaviors are considered as a driver of leaders’ actions. It develops a theory on follower taxonomies to understand how followers are influencing leaders. Although, proactive followers will be more effective in their influence on leaders than passive or simply active ones, because they voluntary take part of the decisions and challenges the leaders have to handle.
This leadership style was shown by Coach Boone in the last few games in the movie. The first time it was shown was when the team wanted to do their own warm-up. Coach Boone didn’t disagree, and didn’t even try to help them with their warm up. The second time the laissez-faire leadership style was shown by Coach Boone was when Gary, the team captain, approached him to talk about kicking another player off the team. Even though Coach Boone must have realized the player wasn’t doing what he was supposed to do, he didn’t say anything, and nothing happened until someone else approached him about it.
Through experience, group members expect-even predict-certain behavior patterns from us. Our style is the one that they perceive us to display when we lead. It is not what we believe our style to be that is important, but what our followers believe it to be. They react according to their concept of our style. Leadership Studies The focus of leadership studies has shifted considerably over the last century.
Leadership is derived from its root word lead. Lead is means to go before or with to show the way; to influence or induce; to guide in direction, course, action, opinion; and to command or direct. Leadership is an often debated topic. Everyone has their own opinion of the types of characteristics leaders or management should possess. Employees and staff often have their own ideals about their managers or supervisors leadership style.