Multi-Disciplinary Team Impact in High Performance Sport

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

Ryan King¹

^1.Blended Intellligence

Multi-disciplinary Team; Practitioners; Decision Making; Intuition; Heuristics; Cognitive Load

Overview

The act of decision making is an essential aspect of daily life, with humans making up to 30,000 decisions a day. However, the term ‘decision making’ encompasses a broad range of actions, from sub-conscious, automated decisions to slow, logical, and rational deliberations. Despite the prevalence of decision making in daily life, there is a pervasive belief in the concept of the rational actor, which assumes that humans can act much like computers, delivering the optimum solution with clear logic and rationality. This belief has been challenged by behavioral psychologists and Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon, who argues that humans are bounded in their ability to be both rational and to rationalize. This paper explores the different types of decision making, the concept of the rational actor, and the impact of decision making on individuals’ cognitive load and performance under pressure. It also highlights the importance of systems thinking in decision making, particularly in complex and uncertain environments.