After watching the movie Chak de India, in which Sharuk plays a role of Kabir khan: coach of Indian womens hockey team. He was one time Indian Mens hockey team captain - who was branded as traitor by media for missing a crucial penalty stroke against arch rivals Pakistan.
He takes up the new role as a coach to reclaim his lost glory and reinforce to the people he is not a traitor. The challenge as a coach of a womens hockey team was immense from start to finish. The film director clearly portrayed the interpersonal conflicts between the team members, supremacy, fighting, discouragement by their family members and fiancee and even the hockey board. As a coach sharukh delicately handles all the issues and brings in team spirit, discipline, hardwork, training, cooperation and motivates them to over come women factor.
Lessons to be learned by a Leader from the film:
During initial training he instructs clearly to all the new team members that they all are going to represent the country and not their respective states. He was also harsh on them to portray himself as a common enemy, so that they will all unite against him and help each other. And it did worked and all the girls united to get rid of him as coach.
He gives more emphasis of team work than individual excellence , even punishing at times to make them understand. He also gives more empathize on teams need more than individuals need and changes positions of key experienced players, which causes resentment among them and they name him "Tuqlak - a king who dominates his subjects".
His belief is courage is more important than skill for success, which he demonstrates that by acting as a mere spectator, when the girls go on a rampage against a gang of eve teasers in a restaurant. He mentions at the end that this is the team he wanted and they can achieve any them if they cooperate among each other.
He also convinced the board to approve the participation in Australia, by arranging a match against the men's hockey team. The Girls team lost the game by narrow margin but the mens team impressed with the performance of the women appreciated in hockey style.
In Australia the first match they played was against the home side in which they lost by a wide margin. As a coach he encouraged and motivated the team to overcome the initial defeat to carry on the game by winning the remaining matches. Thus the underdog Indian team reaches the final in style for the amazement of spectators.
Before the final match he instructed both his forwards to better cooperated on field to get result. In the finals the inevitable happens as underdog Indian team beats title favorite Australian team in penalty shoot out to lift the title cup. He returns to his previous home to regain his lost glory.
The whole film has many important concepts for a Team Leader to understand and deploy over his subordinates to motivate them to overcome obstacles toward goal.
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