For my blog post demonstrating the Relational Leadership model, I picked a clip from Miracle, which is about the USA men's ice hockey team facing off against the USSR in the 1980 Olympic games. The scene above depicts a moment after a tie against Norway in a friendly. As far as the Relational Leadership model, we'll start with purpose. Coach Brooks is instilling a purpose in his players, enforcing how difficult it will be the beat the Russians. He stresses that the significance that being a representative of USA hockey brings, and how impactful a win would be. He is empowering the boys, by the same method. When the players start to realize that representing America is more important than their own personal accolades, they immediately start to play better. This clip also demonstrates inclusion very well, as he is pushing every single player just as hard, while building a family in the process. By putting the players through suicides long after the rink has closed down, he is building a bond amongst them and effectively turning them into a team. The ethics of what Coach Brooks does could be left up to discussion, but what he is doing is instilling national pride. This pride is something that some would call ethical.
Friday, February 5, 2016
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For my blog post demonstrating the Relational Leadership model, I picked a clip from Miracle, which is about the USA men's ice hockey team facing off against the USSR in the 1980 Olympic games. The scene above depicts a moment after a tie against Norway in a friendly. As far as the Relational Leadership model, we'll start with purpose. Coach Brooks is instilling a purpose in his players, enforcing how difficult it will be the beat the Russians. He stresses that the significance that being a representative of USA hockey brings, and how impactful a win would be. He is empowering the boys, by the same method. When the players start to realize that representing America is more important than their own personal accolades, they immediately start to play better. This clip also demonstrates inclusion very well, as he is pushing every single player just as hard, while building a family in the process. By putting the players through suicides long after the rink has closed down, he is building a bond amongst them and effectively turning them into a team. The ethics of what Coach Brooks does could be left up to discussion, but what he is doing is instilling national pride. This pride is something that some would call ethical.
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ReplyDeleteHey Sam great movie to pick! I can agree that this is a great demonstration of how relational leadership model works. This clip without a doubt shows a great sense of purpose like you said the coach is trying to get across the significance and importance of representing the USA hockey team. To discuss the ethics, I do believe he is instilling core values in the players as a team to become a family and have pride in what they are doing. I know from my experience in team sports that if you play as team is one thing but if you play and come together as a family it takes on a whole new meaning.
Sam, I want to challenge you to think beyond just treating everyone the same as being inclusive but to see how the players are including each other to accomplish their purpose as well. I really enjoy your understanding of how ethics is defined differently by different people-we will be going further into depth about ethics and leadership in the following weeks so keep this in mind when we get to it.
ReplyDeleteHey Sam! Awesome pick of a movie and a scene about leadership. I completely agree with you on how Coach Brooks is showing the relational leadership model. I also think this is a really interesting example because with the relational leadership model obviously relationships is one of its core traits. Brooks cares so much for these relationships that he is helping form but in the end he does so by sacrificing his own relationship with every player. He was an amazingly talented coach and motivator but he comes right out at the beginning of the Olympic journey and states he will not be anyone's friend through this process. I think this is a selfless sacrifice because he cares that much.
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