The Psychology of High-Performance Sports Organizations: Culture, Safety, and Leadership

The Psychology of High-Performance Sports Organizations: Culture, Safety, and Leadership provides a step-by-step guide to managing a professional sports organization through the principles of organizational psychology and psychological safety.It offers insights on how to manage sports organizations effectively, covering team operations, culture, and performance design.Readers will gain a deep understanding of psychological safety and learn how to cultivate it in diverse team settings. Although focused on professional sports, many of the key takeaways are applicable to elite amateur sports organizations and general businesses.Some of the topics covered in the book include transformational leadership, values-based decision-making, talent development, psychological safety, and leadership, which can all be applied outside of the sport organization.While these topics have been explored extensively individually, this is one of the first books to bring all of them together with a focus on spo