Multi-Disciplinary Team Impact in High Performance Sport

Maximizing Multi-Disciplinary Teams Impact in High-Performance Sport: Exploring Problem Solving, Decision-Making, Expertise, & Team Performance.

Ryan King¹

^1.Blended Intellligence

Multi-disciplinary Team; Problem Solving; Decision-making.

Headline

In high-performance sport, athletes are supported by multi-disciplinary teams (MDT) composed of practitioners with expertise in different areas such as sports science, psychology, nutrition, and clinical care. While the concept of MDTs is well-known, the intricacies of how they operate, interact, and make decisions are not well understood or researched. This series of papers aims to explore the individual and collective contributions of practitioners within MDTs and how sports organizations can maximize their impact. Drawing from various disciplines such as behavioural and neural economics, cognitive psychology, sociology, and business management, this series of papers seeks to establish an agenda to better support MDTs and their leaders. By investigating topics such as problem solving, decision-making (an important discriminator of team performance), expertise, intuition, and team performance, we will aim to open avenues for further research and help practitioners create purposeful approaches to delivering multi-disciplinary service.