In today's day and age, sports represent a crucial aspect of everyday life, and in the process of developing players, managers play a critical role. The difference between short-term success and true competence is also crucial, as it is essential that the players broader needs are not ignored in the wake of short-term wins. As such, managers have deep influence on the benefit of their team members, emphasizing the importance of having a healthy manager-to-player relationship to ensure good performance and mutual satisfaction. Guiding players requires understanding of various different leadership styles. Player and team satisfaction often rely on the leader's attributes as well as characteristics such as: focus on the end goal and personal compatibility between the manager and their respective team. There are many positive correlations between the choice of different leadership styles, but ignoring players' preferences can jeopardize the team's sense of unity. Various leadership styles from strictly authoritative to transformative ones, are strongly shaped by individual characteristics of the players as well as the context, but all share the importance of mutual sense of trust and strong focus on teamwork. In order to be successful, sports teams often require a structured tactic to ensure that each individual player contributes to the team's goal while also encouraging cooperation and cohesion. On the other hand, individual sports often ignore the importance of teammates, despite numerous interpersonal relationships created amidst training and competing. While individual sports do provide a number of advantages such as better individual level of conditioning and development of motoric skills, team sports maintain the much-loved social aspect, providing meaningful social experiences, empathy, and teamwork.