Greater Team Research Articles

‘Is Hockey Moving with the Times?’ Amateurism, the All England Women’s Hockey Association and Field Hockey at the Olympic Games, 1972–1996

The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision in 1973 to include women’s field hockey in their event forced the All England Women’s Hockey Association (AEWHA) into a difficult position. The Olympic movement under Lord Killanin, and then his successor Samaranch, eventually dropped the amateur ethos in favour of a more open and commercial world tournament. The decision to form a Great Britain (GB) governing council and a team in 1977 had fundamental consequences for England. No longer fielding the premier national team or as influential internationally, the AEWHA could not dictate their own priorities as had been the case in previous decades. Chief among them was the undermining of their amateur ethos forced AEWHA to choose between participation in the Olympics or not. The AEWHA leaders pragmatic approach created an increasingly professionalized player base, but selection to the team remained a privileged, unpaid and voluntary position. Despite AEWHA’s compromised stance towards the Olympics, England and Great Britain teams remained a competitive force winning the European championships in 1991 and Olympic bronze in 1992. Paradoxically by maintaining amateurism in women’s field hockey it caused the eventual irrelevancy of the ideals by the time open status was announced in 1998.

Company Management: The Influence of Organizational Structure and Leadership on Team Performance

This research is driven by a need to gain insight into the key roles that effective leadership plays in achieving optimal performance within teams. In order to fully comprehend the dynamics of team leadership, it is essential to have a robust theoretical and conceptual framework in place. This understanding will help us to identify the factors that influence team performance, and in particular, the role that effective communication, positive feedback, rewards and recognition, and the creation of a supportive work environment plays in motivating teams. In addition, it is vital to consider the key factors that influence the performance of high-functioning teams, which include elements such as team trust, collaboration, effective communication, and leader support. This research employs the methodology of a literature study to ascertain the role of leadership in organizations. In conclusion, team leadership plays an essential role in achieving effective team performance in organizations. By developing a robust theoretical and conceptual framework, leaders can cultivate the practical and strategic insights necessary to lead teams effectively. Effective leaders influence team performance motivation, manage conflict, build cooperation, and create a supportive work environment. The significance of effective team performance is also evidenced by the key factors that influence great team performance. In practice, leaders must be able to apply these insights in a practical manner in order to achieve the desired results.

Nine Steps in the Entrepreneurial Journey for Academic Radiologists

In this article, we explore the nine steps that we have found to be critical for success in our journeys in taking ideas in imaging to commercial products. These nine steps include 1) findings ideas that resonate, 2) protecting your intellectual property, 3) developing a great team that shares in the vision for the product, 4) building a low-fidelity prototype, 5) customer discovery to test your business hypothesis, 6) forming a company, 7) serving on a study section as a prelude to 8) seeking non-dilutive funding, and finally, 9) angel/venture funding.

Career Reflections: Delivering Excellence by Building Great Teams.

Building great teams who can act rapidly and training energetic leaders who are empowered to innovate have been central themes in my leadership journey: Career reflections of Charles J. Lockwood, MD, MHCM, dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and executive vice president of USF Health at the University of South Florida (USF).

Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award 2023: a new online patient flagging system for effective and safe diabetes patients’ follow-up when discharged from hospital

One of the biggest challenges in improving patient safety is identifying them promptly when discharging them from hospital to allow effective planning of follow-ups. Previously, our diabetes team had to undergo a manually laborious pathway to achieve this, thereby risking delays and patient safety, and making poor use of time. When our hospital adopted the new software NerveCentre, we took this as an opportunity to make changes within the system to improve this aspect of diabetes care. NerveCentre initially had minimal diabetes care features. By working closely and meticulously with the company and hospital IT department, we developed a new diabetes ‘dashboard’ in the software that allows all diabetes inpatients to be flagged up effectively to the diabetes team, both upon admission and upon discharge. The dashboard could also hold all the important diabetes information relevant to the patient. This initiative was made possible with a great team understanding of the available resources and which aspects of inpatient diabetes care needed to be improved. We now have a safer and more efficient pathway for following up on diabetes patients upon discharge. This is also evident in our 3-month data: they show a 100% follow-up rate, timely telephone follow-up when required, and that fewer outpatient face-to-face clinic appointments are needed. We received positive feedback from healthcare members and patients. In addition, our initiatives are also easily translatable to other electronic software or adaptable by other hospitals. We are grateful to be winners of the prestigious Rowan Hillson Inpatient Safety Award 2023, and we hope that this will serve as a platform to allow greater exposure of this project idea to other healthcare professionals.

Doctors and Artificial Intelligence: Working Together for a Healthier Future

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing healthcare in some amazing ways. AI is like a smart computer brain that can learn and think almost like we do. It helps scientists study diseases and make new medicines. AI can schedule doctor appointments appointments easily and shorten the amount of time patients must wait at the clinic. AI chatbots can translate languages so doctors and patients can easily understand each other, and can answer patients’ health questions from home. In the future, it might become common to “see” virtual doctors online instead of going to the clinic. Doctors and AI make a great team to keep people healthy. AI can scan test results, spot problems early, and help doctors understand tons of health data quickly. While AI is super helpful, it is important to remember that it is still a tool. Just like we trust our doctors, we can learn to trust AI as we see it in action, making lives better and healthier.

The Role of Job Crafting in mediating the effect of servant leadership and employee engagement: An Empirical Study of the Service Sector in Malaysia

In Malaysia, there has been relatively little empirical study on servant leadership, particularly in relation to job engagement and job crafting. Research has found that leadership has a significant impact on employee engagement, which in turn influences organizational performance. In order to better understand how servant leadership affects employee engagement, this study looks at how job crafting, as mediating factor, influences the former two variables in the Malaysian service industry. An online survey was used in this study to purposively sample 154 employees of the service industry in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Servant Leadership Measures (SL-7), Work Crafting Questionnaire (JCQ), and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) are the respective instruments utilized in this study to assess servant leadership, job crafting, and employee engagement. The data was analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method, and the findings demonstrated that servant leadership and job crafting significantly increase employee engagement in the service industry. A partial mediation analysis of the link between servant leadership and employee engagement showed that job crafting mediates this association positively. The results indicate that servant leadership is a successful leadership style that raises employee job engagement and nurtures their enthusiasm for work through job crafting. The study's findings are significant in that they give practitioners and organizations insight into the need for the servant leadership idea in various circumstances. This is due to its capacity to promote organizational and employee growth. In addition to fostering great team dynamics, servant leadership has the power to completely reshape cultures and organization.

Who is the greatest team in Liga MX? A dynamic analysis

Who is the greatest team in Liga MX? A dynamic analysis

The role of leadership programs in shaping social skills of college students in Nueva Ecija

This research explored how leadership training affected Nueva Ecija college students' academic and social results. Descriptive study was conducted on 100 college students who took leadership training classes. Academic performance, academic engagement, study patterns, learning attitudes, and problem-solving skills were evaluated as academic outcomes. The social outcomes included interpersonal skills, peer relationships, self-esteem, conflict resolution and teamwork abilities. Academic and social outcomes were positively impacted by leadership training, according to the findings. Students reported a high level of academic engagement, positive attitudes toward learning, and beneficial study habits. However, academic performance and problem-solving skills had modest room for development. Socially, students reported great peer connections, high self-esteem, and successful team cooperation, but interpersonal and conflict resolution abilities needed work. The research found that leadership training improves student academic and social skills. It also suggests improving problem-solving, interpersonal skills, and conflict resolution in the programs. These findings have implications for educators and administrators regarding the optimization of leadership training design and delivery. Future research can investigate the longitudinal effects of leadership development and its other possible benefits.

The great team: A recipe: Erratum.

The great team: A recipe: Erratum.

Reflections on Leonard J. Arrington

Reflections on Leonard J. Arrington

Loathed It: The Boys of Summer

Loathed It: The Boys of Summer Gary Gershman (bio) When I began this piece, I conducted a very unscientific poll of friends on what they thought of the iconic book, The Boys of Summer; some were baseball fans, some were not. Visiting California I talked to a handful of people, especially if they were Dodgers fans. At a friend’s house, I mentioned that I had to write an article on the book. He laughed and said it was around the house somewhere, and he would be happy to give me his copy. When I asked Brandon what he thought of the book, he described it as a “shelf turd.” It sat there collecting dust, not really wanted but not getting rid of it. He’d had the book since the eighth grade. He liked its idea but found it incredibly dull— a lot of exposition about nothing. So there it sat, unread except for a few pages and rejected. Many other sources felt differently and noted the greatness of “The Boys” and its iconic place in the world of baseball books. An Esquire article noted that baseball provided the source material for more good books than any other American team sport. It called baseball the “sports catnip for writers: a game on contemplation and strategy which lends itself beautifully to numbers and analysis as well as poetry.”1 The feeling was The Boys of Summer encapsulated this, and the magazine placed the book in its inner circle of outstanding baseball books. The Sporting News ranked the book #8 on its baseball book list and commented that Kahn’s strength in the book was that he “had the literary chops to make his book more than just a jock hagiography . . .”2 They embraced the language that so exasperated and alienated me when I read the book. The description on the back of the book declares it is not just a baseball book but “a book about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, candor and love.”3 Maybe it was those things, but that did not make it an iconic baseball book. In a more recent comment from the fall of 2021, Steve Barnes, in honor of the book’s upcoming fiftieth anniversary, pronounced it the “finest, funniest works of sports literature ever published.”4 He noted that critics were divided because of Kahn’s fandom, which seemed to create an inherent bias, [End Page 11] and that some suggested it was “hopelessly saccharine.” He quickly dismissed those critics, commenting the title itself was memorable by how “it rolled from the tongue like a good bunt in its final inches. So idyllic, so evocative, so resonant was the title . . . that almost immediately it was applied by every fan to the players, the boys, of almost every team . . .”5 And Barnes paid homage to the original reviews, quoting Heywood Hale Brown of the New York Times and how the book recreated the ’50s when Baseball was king— “the center of love beyond the reach of intellect.”6 George Frazier’s Boston Globe review proclaimed that one “could not imagine a more important book, a better written book, a finer discussion of the 1950’s Dodgers than this one.”7 Both of those conclusions are highly debatable. Was I reading the same book? Moving to the less professional evaluations, I dove into average, everyday readers. It was amazing to see how often the reviews found the book a template for society, life, and just understanding the cosmos. One reader declared it was the finest baseball book ever written “in part because it is about more than baseball.” He noted it emphasized how baseball and the drama that ensues, game by game and throughout the season and through players’ careers, “all mirror the larger dramas of life.”8 The lessons one can learn from the great Dodger teams of the 1950s provide insight into how to become good at one’s job, how to work with a team and tell us a lot about how to master one’s craft, and how to conquer racial and socioeconomic differences. A regular theme that permeates these...

What makes a great team?

Andrew Collier discusses what it takes to build an excellent dental team.

Stars in their Constellations: Great Person or Great Team?

Stars in their Constellations: Great Person or Great Team?

Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America by Thomas Aiello (review)

Reviewed by: Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America by Thomas Aiello Wade Davies Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America. By Thomas Aiello. Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 2022. ix + 271 pp. Bibliographic essay, index. $34.00 cloth. Sports historians have long hoped for a grand basketball narrative that appeals equally well to scholarly and popular audiences and centers the game at the heart of the American experience, alongside baseball and football—two sports that have elicited far more scholarly attention. Thomas Aiello has finally written that book. It comes in the form of a concise yet sweeping narrative that traces basketball's evolution, both at the college and professional levels, from its origin and early development in the 1890s, through its mid-twentieth-century maturation, and to its ascent as a premier professional sport, embodied by the post-1970s National Basketball Association (NBA). Aiello strikes an effective balance between in-depth scholarly analysis of basketball's evolving social significance, particularly relative to struggles for gender equality and racial justice, and inspirational stories about all-time great players and teams. Casual readers will particularly appreciate later chapters featuring Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, LeBron James, and, of course, Michael Jordan. The book serves almost as well as a survey of twentieth-century American history as it does a basketball history, in that extended sections are devoted to detail ing broader societal developments—including the Civil Rights Movement, AIDS epidemic, passage of Title IX, COVID-19 pandemic, and Black Lives Matter—before relating these topics back to the sport and its players. Basketball is presented as equally reflecting and influencing the society around it. Aiello so deftly weaves these varied and weighty discussions into his narrative that his book would be as equally well placed as a text for a United States history survey course as for a more focused sports history course. Aiello's otherwise comprehensive narrative does, however, fall a little short in fully capturing basketball's widespread significance to a diverse population. He devotes primary attention to basketball's significance to African Americans and to race relations affecting Black athletes and communities, and deservedly so, but rarely mentions how important this game has been for other athletes of color or of diverse ethnicities, apart from brief mentions of Native American boarding-school teams and longer sections featuring early twentieth-century Jewish teams. More could be said about the intense hoops passion many Indigenous, Asian American, and Latino/a athletes have demonstrated through the years; and there is more to say as well about the game's early importance to American Catholics and other religious communities. These criticisms aside, this is still the most comprehensive and all-around best historical overview yet written about American basketball and is a volume that no sports historian or basketball enthusiast should do without. Scholars will also appreciate the extensive bibliographic essays Aiello includes for each chapter subject. [End Page 110] Wade Davies Native American Studies University of Montana Copyright © 2023 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

TREINAMENTO TÁTICO INTERCALADO DE GRANDES EQUIPES DE FUTEBOL

ABSTRACT Introduction Tactical football training is significant in teaching great football teams. Analyzing and discussing existing problems and proposals for corresponding countermeasures should be carried out periodically. Objective Investigate and understand the main factors that affect the development of tactical training activities of big football teams. Methods Large-scale soccer match tactics at the 2018 World Cup are evaluated and treated statistically by dividing the defensive behaviors in the game between individual defensive tactics and collective defensive tactics. Results The primary means of launching a fast defensive attack is a medium to long pass across the court. Launching a fast attack requires combining a pass with a sudden attack. Conclusion Attackers often take the initiative in their confrontation tactics. The aggressive style of the players excels in the initiative and midfield advantage. Evidence level II; Therapeutic Studies - Investigating the results.

The great team: A recipe.

Many of our cherished memories - a life bettered, some saved - owe their existence to our having been part of a great team. But what makes a team great? We certainly know it when we see it - chemistry. Sometimes, in the moment, we become conscious of, maybe even subconsciously smile at, that welcomed sensation of realizing harmony in action and unity in purpose. As healthcare providers, we cultivate through experiential learning an inner barometer that enables us to gauge and titrate team dynamics, if you will, to this sensation. At times the feeling is poignant, and in circumstances of good fortune, almost rapturous. This, I opine, is a keystone to medicine. Our feelings.

Collaborative caring

Sally Dixon discusses how a great team can make all the difference when it comes to quality of patient care.

Business intelligence and analytics: The case of human resource management decisions

This case is designed to illustrate the conceptual foundations of business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA); thus, analysts can develop an understanding of how to utilize the BI & BA framework to make proper decisions in human resource recruitment. The case starts when Roger, the HR General Manager of Ford Motor Company Thailand, and his team decided to develop a BI-based integrated Team Leader Recruitment System for not only selecting the right candidates for the job but developing them into great team leaders for Ford production line as well. The team started discussing its current evaluation criteria, such as the score from its production system exam, the results of a case study and roleplay exam, and the final interview score, and then dove into more factors that helped create insights into the value of Ford employees. Employee Lifetime Value (ELTV) was then introduced, along with some other factors such as IQ and EQ scores and Myers Briggs Psychological Type Indicator (MBTI) scores. Finally, the team developed a BI dashboard that gathered all relevant factors to evaluate its final five candidates: Tom, James, Andy, Jonas, and Tony. The dashboard also displayed each candidate’s individual KPIs and the departmental and corporate KPIs they contributed to. Indexes measuring the candidate’s job satisfaction, workplace culture, and leadership and teamwork skills were also included as important factors for selecting the right candidates.

“Together, We Can Do This”: The Best Sport Teams Are Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts

Once upon a time, it was believed that the sport team with the best individual star players would be most likely to win all the trophies. Then one day, athletes, coaches, and sport fans, together with scientists (including sport psychologists), noticed that this did not always happen—so people began to doubt the idea. This was a concern because, for coaches to create great sport teams that can reach their potentials, the key ingredients for team success must be understood. Over time, there has been a shift from looking at the talent of individual star players to looking at teamwork. In this article, you will discover how the feeling of connection and relationship between players—their sense of togetherness—is the key ingredient in sport-team success. You will also learn some ideas for how to develop togetherness.