Season 5 · Episode 216
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY with Jamie Taylor
Health and Human Performance professor Jamie Taylor talks about Psychological Safety and the problems with applying concepts from other fields to sports.
September 29, 202234m 9s
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Show Notes
- 1:24: How Jamie ended up working with coaches through his journey as a health and human performance professor.
- 2:17 - Given that Jamie is currently balancing teaching and “coaching” coaches, would he like to eventually transition into a role where he would just focus on working with coaches?
- 3:20 - High-performance sports has a history of applying ideas like growth mindset and grit (that are used in the context of another field of study like education). Why does Jamie think this is problematic?
- You can read this article online here: https://www.readcube.com/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.823488
- 8:19 - Have Jamie found an effective way to apply growth mindset concepts (like the implicit theory) to sports?
- 10:09 - What are common ways that Jamie has observed coaches apply growth mindset concepts to their coaching?
- 11:54 - How does Jamie define the concept of psychological safety?
- 13:47 - Where has most of the research regarding psychological safety been done?
- 14:11 - Jamie’s thoughts on common ways that psychological safety has been applied in the sports world.
- 22:10 - How does the concept of “safetyism” differ from psychological safety?
- 23:18 - Has Jamie observed coaches mistakenly apply safetyism when attempting to implement psychological safety?
- 25:06 - Could the implementation of psychological safety make a difference in the worldwide struggle with mental health in athletes?
- 26:45 - Can high levels of psychological safety negatively impact motivation and effort levels?
- 28:11 - Explaining the concept of “driven benevolence”.
- 29:02 - What are the most worthwhile components of psychological safety to apply to high performance athletics?
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