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10 Inspirational movies for teams

Are you looking for just the right movie to inspire your team?

Movies are so much a part of our popular culture that we would be foolish to not beinspired of them to develop our teams. That feeling of energy, cheer, inspiration, or

enthusiasm that a great movie can create is always amazing to me.

Movies are a great way to connect people on an emotional and somewhat

vicariously an experiential level. They have been used for years by great coaches and

managers to instill and fortify the ideas or values they desired to see emulated by

their team.

Here is the list of movies that are of great help on demonstrating or promoting team

building, team dynamics and leadership –

1. Invictus

Invictus is one of the very inspiring movies about building a good team in trying

circumstances.

The movie shows the inspiring portrayal of Nelson Mandela’s first days as president

of post-apartheid South Africa and how Mandela used the historically hapless South

African Springboks rugby team to bring the country together. Embodied by the

slogan, “One Team, One Country,” Mandela set the goal of the Springboks winning

the World Cup. It portrays how Mandela established his leadership as president.

Watch the trailer of the movie at this link here:http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1889666329/

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2. Coach Carter

Coach Carter based on the true story of Coach Ken Carter, a top basketball player

who returned to his local high school to coach this dysfunctional team.

The Team where many conflicts exist including lack of discipline, acts of aggression,

physical assault, family dysfunction, lack of cohesion, use of inappropriate language,

lack of adherence to rules, poor academic success, and yet the players possess a

dynamic love for the game and each athlete can identify with the need to be a part

of something bigger and better than the streets they live on. This becomes a driving

force in Carter’s attempt to encourage and teach the Richmond basketball team

value, hard work, discipline, courage, how to overcome adversity and find something

pure and empowering in becoming a successful athlete, student, and team with a

mission (goals).

Watch the trailer of the movie at this link here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOFhHEepF4s

3. Remember the Titans

Remember the titans is a true story of a newly appointed African-American coach

and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.






The movie, based on a true story, is about the T.C. Williams High School football

team. The movie documents the trials and tribulations of the football team as two

different cultures come together and attempt to unite to reach a common goal—

winning the state football championship. As the players begin to accept and trust

one another, they are successful in their pursuit of wins on the gridiron - throughout

the season, that trust is put to the test numerous times. Situations arise that raise

questions and concerns for those involved, but each time the focus on the common

goal of winning the state championship allows them to move past the issue.Ultimately, the movie is about hard work, dedication, sacrifice, leadership, and

success.


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4. Miracle

Miracle is based on the 1980 United States Olympic Ice Hockey team’s win over

the Soviet Union.






The movie follows the development of the US men’s hockey team leading up to their

victory at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics under coach Herb Brooks,` and is an

excellent example of a team moving through Bruce Tuckman conceptualized the

stages of team formation into four main categories: Forming, Storming, Norming,

and Performing. Ultimately the movies portrays positive values of teamwork,

discipline, bravery, determination, and overcoming impossible odds to rise from

underdog to champion

Watch the trailer of the movie at this link here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_pV-CH0wk&feature=related

5. Apollo 13

Apollo 13 is the gripping true story of 3 astronauts stranded in space and NASA's

unrelenting effort to bring them safely home.

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As a result of the movie Apollo 13, "Failure is not an option," has worked its way into

many a group's mission and vision. The technicians and astronauts in Ron Howard's

epic provide rational leadership during a crisis. In essence the movie is also the

perfect example of virtual teams. Gene Kranz (Ed Harris), in charge of flight

operations in Houston, and Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), commander of the lunar mission

display their leadership skills when an explosion occurs on the Apollo 13 craft.

Through teamwork, ingenuity, and rational process these leaders solve a nearly

impossible problem.

Krantz and Lovell maintain control in a chaotic situation, which inspires confidence

among the group. Apollo 13 shows that although leaders desire loyalty and passion,it is important to secure their group's confidence first.


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6. Facing the Giants

Facing the Giants is a story of a losing coach with an underdog football team facestheir giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results.

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Grant Taylor is a Christian high school football coach who uses his undying faith to

battle the giants of fear and failure. In six years of coaching, he has never led his

Shiloh Eagles to a winning season. After learning that he and his wife Brooke face

infertility, Grant discovers that a group of fathers are secretly organizing to have him

dismissed as head coach. Devastated by his circumstances, he cries out to God in

desperation. When Grant receives a message from an unexpected visitor, he

searches for a stronger purpose for his football team. He dares to challenge his

players to believe God for the impossible on and off the field. When faced with

unbelievable odds, the Eagles must step up to their greatest test of strength and

courage. What transpires is a dynamic story of the fight between faith and fear.

Facing the Giants is a powerful experience for the whole team inspiring them to live

with faith and give their very best at all times.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kkBND7thcQ

7. Shackleton

Shackleton is a true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South

Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28-man crew to safety after his ship was

crushed in the pack ice.






On August 1, 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail with a crew of 28 on an expedition

to the Antarctic. The mission of their expedition was to cross the Antarctic on foot -

something never done before. Shackleton exemplified the riveting examples of the

tremendous difference strong leadership and teamwork can make under conditions

of adversity, uncertainty and change. During those tough and cold months, he held

his crew together, inspired them and motivated them. He made sure they

understood their objective and what role each must play to attain their goal.

Shackleton’s leadership is widely credited with making the essential dif ference.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj0fAYiY09A

8. Glory Days

Glory Days is a story of how Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black

starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.






Josh Lucas plays Don Haskins, a coach determined to find success on college

basketball’s grandest stage. With no recruiting budget and waning support, the

coach’s assignment to turn the program into a winner is a tall task. By aggressively

recruiting African-American players from northern cities, a daring move in the Deep

South at the time, Haskins builds a team that sneaks up on the basketball

establishment. Their growing success on the court, however, is greeted by racially

motivated persecution that increases with each win.

With convincing acting and a redemptive message, GLORY ROAD is a winner, full of

teamwork, drama, heart, and soul. Coach Haskins’ commitment to doing the right

thing, and his faith that doing so would pay off, is a moral lesson that’s worth

sharing.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvsICT_HLfY

9. Chak De India

Chak De India is a story of a hockey player who returns to the game as a coach of a

women's hockey team.






Its a movie on how an Indian women hockey team, a team that exists more on paper

and less in reality, goes on to win a world cup against all odds.

It depicts the values it takes to build a match-winning team and what it takes to

achieve something which at one point didn’t seem possible.

After watching the movie when I analyzed it critically I realized that apart from the

entertainment, which this movie has in abundance, it even offers several lessons,

which we can learn and apply them at our work, and with our teams.


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10. Thirteen Days

Thirteen Days is a dramatization of President Kennedy's administration's struggle to

contain the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962






The movie is about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It captures the political mood in

1962 when President John F. Kennedy had to grind an axe to avert a nuclear war

with the Soviet Union. The movie makes real the fact that, hard as it is to believe,

this confrontation could have ended in nuclear war. It allows one to be a fly on the

wall as a president and his advisers struggle with an intractable problem. Viewers

vicariously experience the irreducible uncertainties and chilling fear of failure in

choosing among options that could trigger nuclear war. We see the essential,

ultimately decisive role of presidential leadership in choosing among conflictingrecommendations of persuasive advisers.

Thirteen Days is really a study of how a leader and his team confront a crisis: how

they organize resources, involve the right people, make things happen and, perhaps

most importantly, stay strong and focused in the face of huge pressure both from

inside and outside the organization.

Watch the trailer of the movie at this link here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M19tgYuwVWc

Do share with us, which are the Team movies that have inspired you the most?

Also do watch these movies with your teams and be a team facilitator to reflect on

the lessons and how you can use the positive behaviors displayed in the movies at

your workplace. It truly helps; do share your experiences with us.

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