Sport Psychology For this assignment I shall use a team of my choice as a sporting example of group work and leadership. I will identify the different kind of leader within that group and the style of leadership that they have. The team I have chose to use is Manchester United; a team, which I believe, has many leaders and not just the manager and captain. A team is a group of people who must interact with each other in order to accomplish shared objectives. A team must have: Ø Interaction between members. Ø Positive feeling between members. Ø A collective identity, be different from others. Ø Share common goal, have the same objectives. Groups go through a four-stage development sequence to move from being just a collection of individuals to becoming a team: (Tuckman 1965) 1. Forming: getting to know others and the roles that they play i.e. captain, position and manager. 2. Storming: conflict between members, rebellion against leader in order to establish roles. 3. Norming: co-operation replaces conflict. Group cohesion develops. 4. Performing: primary goal for each member is group success and roles become more defined. There are many roles within a team both formal and informal: Formal roles may be: Ø Captain: Roy Keane Ø Coach: Alex Ferguson Ø Player’s position: strikers, defenders, midfielders and goalkeepers. Informal roles may be: Ø Mentor: a player other people look up to such as Roy Keane. Ø Joker: the practical joker of the team. Ryan gigs is notorious within the united dressing room for winding teammates up. Ø Troub... ... middle of paper ... ... to get a higher level but then felt why should they be the one to put in all the work and therefore the whole group end up getting the same grade for that piece of work. Also personal factors have influenced the way that our group functioned with people not turning in to do the work on the assignment when arranged. In comparison to Manchester united our group was a shambles we lacked the drive and determination needed in order to obtain the goals that were set. We were not structured in the processes we were going to follow and had no set plan which we were able to abide by. I think our group could have needed an authorative leader in order to reach the targets, but that said it was a good experience to be part of a group like this because now we should see that we need to put in more effort in order to succeed.