AUTHOR=Grinde Ole Erik 

TITLE=Bridge Over Troubled Water: Shared Understanding Bridges Individual and Collective Resources in Developing Team Resilience in Professional Football

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Sports and Active Living

VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sports-and-active-living/articles/10.3389/fspor.2021.705945

DOI=10.3389/fspor.2021.705945

ISSN=2624-9367

ABSTRACT=This study explores how coaches facilitate coordinated activities through shared understanding in the processes of team resilience development. Constructs of shared information which underpin synchronised actions and behaviour in a team are investigated through individual experiences with a dialogic “we” perspective of appropriating and handling challenging situations. Interactional key elements underpin coordinated task actions within the team. Experiences of both players and coaches are investigated through semi-structured interviews and complementary texts such as an observation log and coach-meeting reports. An interaction model is developed in the exploratory journey during the season with the team. The model suggests key strategic elements that help to bridge shared appropriation of information to strengthen role interactions between team members handling challenging situations. Coaching practice which connects the interaction model to different team resources of coordinating activities in the development process still needs to be explored from different contextual perspectives in the development of team resilience.