Examples Of Leadership In Remember The Titans

In Remember the Titans we witness Coach Boone fighting for civil rights, signifying the image of an outsider integrating into a foreign white team as their coach. Director Boaz Yakin, uses techniques to strengthen Coach Boone’s character where the initial hate and disrespect towards him succours the development of a meaningful arc. The disrespect and aggression is employed when a brick is thrown through his house window, threatening him with the derogatory coloured comments calling him “Coach Coon”. The pressure of quitting was not felt and heroically he encompasses the journey with Yakin emphasising Boones evocative discipline and determination forcing integration amongst the segregated football team. This technique is employed when we witness Coach Boone stepping up, pushing equality for the players in a determined strike to stop racial abuse for good. His actions initiate the forced building of friendship and acceptance when he forces both races to get to know and accept each other at the camp. Yakin heightens the themes of overcoming racism when Boone rallies the troops together to support their team mate during a sad time. Instinctively, the implicit segregation is evoked further bringing unity to the team, Coach Boone emerges as a ‘hero’ to both the coloured and white community.

It was very hard for football team The Titans to come together. But throughout their performances in practice matches and in training, the Titans team of 1971 were brought together by brotherhood and compassion.

From day one on the Tonawanda Titans I have felt the true meaning of team. Having joined freshman year, the transition was made easy thanks to this family unit that supports each other every stroke of the way. As a result of this great environment I thrived on going to practice to better myself, which ultimately enabled myself to share my passion for this sport with my fellow teammates both young and old.

In this documentary there was a mental skill that stood out the most, in particular, group dynamics/ cohesion. Throughout the team’s football season coach Courtney helps the boys feel closer with their fellow teammates, thus, resulting in each individual to look out for one another. With that said, in the movie the team worked together to achieve a common goal which was to win a playoff game while also working on individual interpersonal relationships with other teammates. With that in mind, different elements of task and social cohesion are emphasized in this documentary.

In April of 1971, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that ended all state imposed segregation in public schools. In the beginning of the movie the narrator, later to be known as Coach Bill Yoast’s young daughter Sheryl, discusses the transition from segregated schools to mixed races at T. C. Williams High School located in Alexandria, Virginia. The movie expands on many different smaller issues that are centered on the main issue of hatred of race, The african American race to be more specific. When Coach Herman Boone is first introduced he was reluctant to take this new job as head coach in Virginia even with being well qualified because he was previously passed up for the same coach position in South Carolina, but the job was given to an under qualified white man “who could barely tie his own shoe.” Boone reluctantly takes the job after realizing he is an idol for the black people in his neighborhood. With the issues of desegregation flying around he must overcome the racism as well as winning over his new team and leading them to victory.

Coah Boone treats others with dignity as the coach of a team where there are both American and African-American players. He wants the players to feel friendly and comfortable being with each other, therefore, he forces each player to make friend which a different race player and mixed players as though there is no racism. This create an environment where players hated each others at the start yet when they start to comprehend each other, they become friends. Coah Boone's daughter denies others dignity when Bill Yoast's daughter invited her to play basketball with her. By doing this, she is causing hatred and unfriendly environment with Bill Yoast's daughter in which can lead to racism between two races.

Leadership: When Tandy Gerelds decided to do a preseason camp in 1973 even if his players didn’t want to do it, he acted as a leader and forced them to do it. He organized it to bring his students closer. On the other hand, he had a lot of leadership every time he was coaching, during the practices and during the games.

Remember the Titans, directed by Boaz Yakin, is a film set in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. At this time, the first high school was being integrated and neither race was happy about it. Remember the Titans is about the struggle and the journey it takes to succeed, not just as a football team, but as people. The team struggled for many reasons, the main one being race, but also because of having a new coach who wants them to achieve nothing less than perfection. Despite the circumstances, the T.C. Williams High School Titans succeeded as a football team on and off the field.

I do not have anyone in my life who I would consider to be a good leader. I have many that try to be, but in my opinion but aren't. Instead, I have decided to write about Coach Boone from the Great Titans. One clear time when he was a leader that stands out to me is when he gave a moving speech to his team at the Gettysburg memorial site. He talked about their team is facing most of the struggles that were faced in that civil war. The main one being the reason the thought process behind slavery, the conflict between black and white people. One thing I admired in him as a leader at this point was the fact that he had a strong message to send to his players and a strong delivery. I feel one of the most important qualities of a leader is the

Players started to be assertive with each other basically only trying to tolerate just enough to get them through games and practice. Their coach, Boone, whose African-American makes the football team come together to get familiar with each other to lessen the uncalled for tension. He lets his team know that he is there so they can win hoping that winning games would bring them closer together and end the prejudice thoughts among the team. Which later on down the line the coach becomes more like a father figure to some players and their respect for him as a coach but also as a man rises.

Coach Boone’s leadership characteristics were that of dictatorship, a strong and inspirational leader, knowledgeable, cooperative, ambitious, persistent, willing to adapt, flexible and adaptable, well educated, encouraging and self-motivating. Coach Boone is a charismatic leader with a military style approach to coaching. He believes in re-building the players as a team. One of Coach Boone’s great strategies was to room white and black players together so they would get to know one another as people. When his players or coaches made bad decisions, Coach Boone used those opportunities for teaching and encouragement that led to success.

His actions and observation skills also facilitated the success of the team racial merger when Gary and Julius came together at football camp. His hesitation to interfere when Gary and Julius initially united on the field, in what initially appeared to be a confrontation, brought the team together. Julius and Gary are also excellent motivators. They build excitement in their teammates before games. Since Julius and Gary are team leaders informally and formally respectfully, Coach Yoast’s ability to interoperate the situation and allowing them to celebrate brought the team together. Coach Boone is a very good motivator as well. He does an exceptional job of stimulating his team and redirecting their determination to the right team instead of its own. He knows that small steps must be made, such as making plays, before going for the gold, the win. He also had high expectations for his team, he believed that the efforts of his team would lead to performance, and performance to results. He expected his team to practice just as hard as they play in the games. “The importance of motivation is suggested in findings that most people believe they could give as much as 15 to 20 percent more effort at work than they now do with no one, including their own supervisors, recognizing any difference.” (Manning, G., & Curtis, K. 2015. P289). Motivation and recognition go hand in hand and this was clearly

Remember the Titans is a movie that i have recently watched for the third time now, and i believe it is an excellent portrayal of what it takes to be a leader and what a leader may look like. Within the movie there are four main leaders; Herman Boone, the black head coach who influenced a majority of the older black people as they viewed him as a symbol of pride and respect that they lacked in their community, Bill Yoast, the white assistant coach who influenced the majority of older white people as he had grown up in the town and was well respected, Gerry Bertier, the unofficial leader of the white athletes and white peers, Julius Campbell, the unofficial leader of the black athletes and black peers.Bertier becomes a leader after he puts aside

In the movie Remember the Titans there was a huge issue about racism. The white players suffered in how they transferred to T.C. Williams against their will to play football for Coach Boone. They were cold to Coach Boone and the black players at first, but they soon came together and united as a team. In the movie Coach Carter they players had a hard time with Coach Ken Carter, especially Cruz. Cruz walked out on a practice, once he realized how happy his teammates were after their first win.

In the film ‘Remember the Titans’ directed by Boaz Yakin, the main characters of the Titans are introduced as a group to us in a scene shot in the gymnasium. This scene is when the team first meets the other prospective team members and develop their relationships with each other. Yakin uses this scene to show tension and intimidation between the two separate teams, especially focusing in on the two coaches (Boone and Yoast) while giving the audience an idea of where their relationship stands. He uses four techniques to create this; blocking, sound effects, camera angles and dialogue to do this