Watching
the matches within the FIFA World Cup , I notice that the national line-ups
apparently vary on solidarity . you would possibly wonder why this matters. Why
is solidarity important? What brings it about? And what hinders it?
Sweden's
solidarity
After
eliminating excellent teams, Holland and Italy in qualifying, Sweden played
their part, in sending defending champions Germany home early, by topping Group
F. They lack individual talented players, but as a team with a collective
spirit they have heart and get up to the challenge. they are doing well through
determination and organisation.
"Alone
we will do so little; together we will do such a lot ." (Helen Keller,
deaf/blind political activist)
In
keeping together with his no-frills squad, the manager had not picked Sweden's
all-time top scorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The player had angered many of his
former fans with what were seen as characteristically self-obsessed comments.
"As
a team, we play as a collective, all the players together. With Zlatan, as an
individual , as a player, he's an individualist, and therefore the play goes
around him. Instead, now, we play more the team all at once ."
(goalkeeper, Karl-Johan Johnsson).
Every
single player has bought into the thought of working hard for every other and
having fun together as a much bigger group outside the pitch.
Leicester
City's solidarity
Winning
English Premier league, Leicester City is another eleven whose performance has
exceeded what may need been expected from the sum of its parts.
Leicester
had some good players, but watching the entire squad and comparing it to the
so-called "top" clubs, it is easy to ascertain why they were such
long shots to lift the title.
"You
may have the best bunch of individual stars within the world, but if they do
not play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - (Babe Ruth, baseball
player)
Pundits
spotted the players' sense of team identity as an important think about their
success. The squad knew the manager would be there the subsequent season. He
persisted with most of the primary team players he inherited. This continuity
built on the legacy of the club, another cornerstone of a robust team identity.
Team
spirit was also helped by the players viewing the target of the club (i.e.
avoid relegation) together they were capable of achieving. So there was no fear
of failure.
Many
technical sides defend by playing many safe passes then not letting the
opposition have the ball. However, possession makes for a poor predictor of
team performance. City weren't afraid to play three misplaced passes if the
forth move led to a goal. Team members felt positive and proud to be a part of
a gaggle playing a successful fast-paced counter-attacking brand of football.
Other
football teams
Boys
playing football got to learn to pass the ball unselfishly instead of dribble
past opponent after opponent until they lose the ball. they have to be a team
player and not purely an individualist. Some flair adult players are encouraged
to succeed at the expense of collaboration when it's needed.
Professional
football squads in England include highly rated players from other countries.
These tend to possess dissimilar languages, cultures, values and problem-solving
approaches to difficulties. this will hamper the expansion of solidarity .
Most
football managers realise that solidarity are often hindered by voicing
criticism of players publicly . However leaders vary in their team building
skills.
Trade
Unions
Without
any emerging solidarity within a trades union, industrial disputes would fail.
Unity is strength. Members got to identity with the cause and trust one another
to sacrifice short-term income. Then they need an opportunity to barter from
strength and gain better working conditions and pay within the future.
Personal
services
Worker's
morale is vital altogether walks of life. for instance in many organisations
handling human troubles and private change - like educational, health and
social services, or those to try to to with spirituality - solidarity are often
fragile when one is faced with difficult-to-succeed-with-clients.
Many
of those organisations use teams of workers with differing types of
professional training who might not see eye to eye. handling complex and highly
personal business raises matters of deep principle. this will mean that folks
are often unwilling to switch how they approach things, resulting in a degree
of inflexibility. Leaders can help by team building encouraging the giving and
receiving of support, communication and sharing. Without this, mixed groups
tend to point out disharmony also as collaboration.
"Teamwork
begins by building trust. and therefore the only thanks to do this is to beat
our need for invulnerability." (Patrick Lencioni, business management
writer)
Unpaid
volunteers tend to require to hold out their responsibilities on their own
terms. With volunteers doing only short hours, solidarity suffers if members
have little opportunity all to satisfy together to resolve different
viewpoints.
Heavenly
community spirit
When
we make friends, we tend to try to to so with people that share our interests
and values. With them we frequently feel most reception and liberal to be
ourselves. it's going to be hard to imagine such a sphere where community
spirit prevails. Swedenborg painted such an image of heavenly community. In
such a scenario there are not any rows about how things get done. No egos
wanting their own way. People joining together within the right spirit. Only
wanting what's best for every other and for the team and community as an entire
.
"None
folks , including me, ever do great things. But we will all do small things,
with great love, and together we will do something wonderful." (Mother
Teresa, Roman Catholic nun)
As
a psychotherapist , Stephen Russell-Lacy has specialised in cognitive-behavioural
psychotherapy, working for several years with adults suffering distress and
disturbance.
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