ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Physical Education and Pedagogy
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2025.1648137
This article is part of the Research TopicDigital Transformation in Sports Coaching: Enhancing Coach Learning and Athlete DevelopmentView all 5 articles
Team Decision-Making: The integration of Cognitive Task Analysis and video to accelerate the development of tactical Shared Mental Models in an elite sports team
Provisionally accepted
- 1University of Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom
- 2Wrexham University, Wrexham, United Kingdom
- 3The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Employing theory and methods from Naturalistic Decision Making, this paper presents a Decision-Making Framework (Richards, Collins & Mascarenhas, 2016) which that integrates Cognitive Task Analysis as a method through which coaches and teams can develop and operationalize tactical Shared Mental Models (SMMs). Enhancing the acceleration of individual/team DM capabilities in elite sport teams. This paper presents emperical evidence illustrating that team DM can be accelerated in an international netball team (players, N=14) over a period of 31 days. Both qualitative statements and inferiential statistics indicate that DM can be acclerated when a slow, deliberate, reflective, off-field digital environment is integrated with competivite 'in-action', on-field, contexts.
Keywords: naturalistic decision making, reflective practice, Tactical decision-making, high-performance teams, performance analysis, Teamwork, Team intelligence
Received: 16 Jun 2025; Accepted: 22 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Pamela Richards, prichards5@uclan.ac.uk
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