Communication provides information on how well team members listen, encourage participation, share information and discuss sensitive matters. In the movie, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Precious learns to share sensitive matters with her teacher and with her social worker. Through very skillful and loving efforts to draw her out of her personal …
Emotional awareness measures how well team members pay attention to one another and demonstrate acceptance and value for one another. In the movie, Up in the Air, George Clooney’s character is a corporate downsizing expert. A young upstart in his company shakes up his world by creating a way to fire people via the internet. …
Motivation is a competency that measures the team’s internal resources for generating and sustaining the energy necessary to get the job done well and on time. In the movie Invictus, Mandela gives the “Invictus” poem to the captain of the national rugby team and encourages him to find ways to rebuild the team’s image in …
Team identity measures the level of pride each member feels for the team as a whole, and how much connection and belongingness members feel to the team. In Avatar, we see the formulation of team identity as the scientists break ranks with the military/industrial complex team and then risk their lives to accomplish the purpose. …
Let’s have fun together! We will list movies for each of the 7 team emotional and social skill areas and discuss them the entire month of March. We hope you’ll join us and contribute to this fun learning opportunity for all of us! We thank the many people involved in making these movies for the …