The Intern Movie: A Lesson on Taking Chances and Embracing Change

Summary of the storyline and context

The Internship is a movie that is set at Google and revolves around the lives of Billy McMahon and Nick Campbell. The movie is about two salesmen, Billy and Nick, whose careers have come to an end due to the digital world. They decide to apply for internships at Google despite the fact that they are not in college. They are only accepted due to their different ways of answering questions and solving problems. At Google all the interns are split into teams and the teams have to complete various different tasks. Billy and Nicks team face a lot of difficulties in their group with teamwork, their group lacks teamwork which gives them a serious disadvantage. At the end of all the challenges the overall winning team gets a full-time job at Google. Billy and Nick's team end up winning and are guaranteed the jobs however no one believed in them, everyone thought they would fail and were shocked to see them succeed. The movie creates awareness of challenges that teams could possible face as well as ways in order to overcome those challenges. The movie also focuses on problem solving and how problem solving plays a key role in succeeding. In a The Intern movie essay, one can analyze the experiences of Billy and Nick and how their diverse skillsets allowed them to excel in a highly competitive internship program.

Leadership styles

Leadership is the action and ability of being able to lead and give direction to a group of people or an organization. Throughout the movie a number of different leadership styles are portrayed. Autocratic leadership styles are a leadership style when one-person controls all the decisions and takes very little input from other group members. In the film The Internship the autocratic leadership style is used by Mr Chetty, he is the head of the internship group. Mr Chetty gives you instructions and you must do it and when you do it must be done correctly. He has no time for other people's input or opinions and he does not put up with arguments. He is very strict and likes to stick and play by the rules, he's a man who feels no pity for others. This leadership style works well in the movie as it is excellent for inexperienced workers as there is lots of control and that is what interns need but it leads to one-way communication which can lead to poor decision making.

In the film we see this leadership style in the scene where Mr Chetty told all the interns to log into their google accounts to keep track of their calls for the google help centre so that they can determine the winner of the challenge, however Billy did not listen, he did not log in, so he got zero points for the challenge and Mr Chetty did not care. Laissez faire leadership styles is when the leader gives you very little guidance or direction. They allow group members to have their say and input in the decision-making process. This specific leadership style is used by Lyle in the movie.

Lyle is the leader of Nick and Billy's team who works at Google. Lyle instructs his team on what they need to do and achieve and then gives the team the freedom to decide on how they are going to achieve it. He is very open to people's ideas and trusts that the interns will get the work done on their own. Lyle observes how the work is done but he does not intervene. This type of leadership style is risky as it can result in lack of commitment and responsibility however it allows for me creative thinking and better motivation. In the film we see this leadership style in the sceneTransformational leadership style is when the leader inspires people to achieve remarkable results. The leader encourages and motivates the team in order to reach unexpected results and allows input from the group members. In the movie Billy and Nick are transformational leaders as they are always creating a positive atmosphere. They are proactive and very inspirational. We see this in the movie during the scene that they are playing Quidditch. In the first half Billy and Nicks team was losing badly, at half time Billy and Nick gather their team together to have a team talk. During the team talk they motivate one another and remind the team to not give up cause there is still a chance to win. In the second half they make a huge comeback, and, in the end, they only lose by one point.

Teamwork

Teamwork is the combined action of a group. Throughout the movie there are a number of teamwork situations both good and bad. During the scene at the Quidditch match Billy and Nicks team were not working together. They were arguing and could not come to an agreement. They had to use the teamwork problem solving steps in order.

Conclusion

The Internship movie was highly relevant to the content that we have covered this year so far. Chapter 8 was on teamwork and conflict management which was all about putting a team together, team dynamics and what problems could rise, team processes and managing conflict. During the movie we saw how managing conflict was done and dealt with, how working together as a team is the key to being successful and we got to see the steps required in order to put a team together as well as the evaluation of the team.

Chapter 6 was on creativity and problem solving which included types of problems and problem solving and creative thinking techniques. Throughout the movie we were exposed to problems and challenges that needed to be solved, we were shown ways in how to be creative and how it is so important to be thinking out of the box.

Chapter 3 was based on management and entrepreneurship which included leadership styles, communication, discipline and motivation. In the movie The Internship we see all the leadership styles being portrayed by the various different characters, we saw how listening to your co-workers and communicating with them is so valuable. The various different leaders in the movie showed different ways in motivating their teams and encouraging them to do their best and achieving their goals and finally we also saw discipline, we saw that if you don’t follow rules and procedures you going to have to suffer the consequences.