Building Coactive Sport Teams

Building Coactive Sport Teams develops and presents an asset-focused framework to guide coaches in engaging athletes as coactors. This book provides an asset-focused, inclusive approach to involving all team members in collaborating to achieve shared goals, a process called coaction. It lays out a coaching model that cultivates athletes’ collaboration skills and increases team members’ engagement, especially among those with diverse identities, skills, and experiences in working toward shared goals.

Using storytelling and offering an interactive format, this book translates interdisciplinary scholarship into a practical step-by-step process coaches can immediately apply to their teams. Stories highlight coach and athlete coactors, providing rich insight to help readers account for power, identities, and social context while advancing team goals. Each chapter has reflection questions to guide readers in applying the ideas within their team context.

This book is key reading for coaches and students in sport management programs, college administrators, and anyone interested in leadership development and collaboration.