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Just like the Olympics, the World Cup comes around only every four years. And just like the Olympics, the athletes prepare as only elite athletes know how to do. France’s highly regarded national team, Les Bleus, went to the South African World Cup with a motto, “All together for a new dream.” However, from its first competitive match through its final defeat, the team lived more of a nightmare.
On paper, France’s team was considered one of the world’s best. It should have been in prime position to walk away with the World Cup championship. However, the team performed badly on the field, and its behavior was even worse off the field. A top player was sent home for insulting the coach. The team captain hinted that there was a traitor in the team’s midst after the coach/player dispute was leaked to the press. And after its first match ended in a draw and its second match in a loss to Mexico, team players refused to participate in a training session in a protest against their bosses. The final straw was the team’s defeat in its last match by the host country team. So much for the dream. What went wrong with this team?
Think of your own experiences of working in a successful (or unsuccessful) group or a team. What do you think were the major reasons why the team succeeded or failed? To answer this question, refer to the "Team Effectiveness Model" and identify at least 1 context, 1 composition and 1 process factor that impacted your team's performance. You can draw on your work or school experiences to answer this question.
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As per given details, Team was strong on paper that means the players possessed the required skills for winning the world cup championship. While according to Team Effectiveness Model what things team require is trust, mentoring resources and process.
In the sense of Context, Team would need the resources, rewards, information, cooperation and support to carry out the work. But in above scenario it has failed because player have abandoned to participate in the training session as there might not be enough support of cooperation from the bosses. This could have resulted into reduced efficiency on the field and defeat in the match.
In terms of composition, the Team was composed of the one of the best player and they had high chances of winning the championship. The Team lost its one of the best player who was performing and might have a breakdown on who would take up the role for the player. It was management decision to send of the player and thus team lost its structure and key pillar was missing which resulted into the Team being underperforming and failing at championship.
One of the Team Member shared with media about the departure of the player and which resulted into loss of trust on any of the players. When trust was missing, Team lost its synergy with each other as well on the ground also. It resulted into poor performance and failure in the championship.
Thus there were these factors that affected the teams failure at the World Cup Championship.
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