Stages Of Teaming In The Movie 'Remember The Titians'

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Psychologist Bruce Tuckman came up a team building strategy “forming, storming, norming, and performing”. He explained how to follow this strategy to formulate a team, and to take the team to a high level of performance. The movie Remember the Titians is one of the best examples to explain these four stages of Tuckman. Forming is the base to teaming building. At this stage, the roles and the responsibilities of every individual of the team are unclear. The most commanding role at this stage is of the leader. It depends on him as to how to give the tasks and how to set the goals. In the video clip from the Remember the Titians shows how the coach at the very first stage forms a team by imposing them with certain rules and regulations so that they are so busy and focus on the daily activities and have a fear of loosing their position in the team which helped them to avoid various issues and conflicts with each other. He claims that all the team members are under dictatorship and they have to follow him, also he forces the whites and the blacks to sit in the bus together and share t...

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