Athlete leadership development within teams: Current understanding and future directions

ST Cotterill, TM Loughead, K Fransen - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Leadership has been shown to be a fundamental factor influencing the performance of sport
teams. Within these teams, leadership can be provided by coaches, formal athlete leaders …

Shared social identity in leadership

SD Reicher, SA Haslam, MJ Platow - Current opinion in psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper we review recent evidence on the social identity model of leadership. First, we
explain how this model is rooted in the social identity approach in social psychology and …

Practical Group Defense Exercise Design in Football Game for 13-Year-Old Students

N Ihsan, A Okilanda, D Donie, DD Putra… - … Education Theory and …, 2022 - tmfv.com.ua
Research purpose. Football is popular in the society across the world. Everyone always
watches football matches. Nowadays, there are many football schools for kids or young …

All for us and us for all: Introducing the 5R Shared Leadership Program

K Fransen, SA Haslam, NK Steffens, K Peters… - Psychology of Sport and …, 2020 - Elsevier
While most leadership programs seek to develop the leadership qualities of the formal team
leader, programs that aim to develop the leadership qualities of team members are rare …

How many leaders does it take to lead a sports team? The relationship between the number of leaders and the effectiveness of professional sports teams

FM Leo, T García-Calvo, I González-Ponce, JJ Pulido… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
This study aimed to analyze the number of task, social and external athlete leaders within
sports teams, and to examine the effectiveness of different leadership structures in male and …

The emergence of shared leadership in newly formed teams with an initial structure of vertical leadership: A longitudinal analysis

K Fransen, E Delvaux, B Mesquita… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The importance of high-quality leadership for team effectiveness is widely recognized, with
recent viewpoints arguing shared leadership to be a more powerful predictor than vertical …

From autocracy to empowerment: Teams with shared leadership perceive their coaches to be better leaders

K Fransen, N Mertens, ST Cotterill… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Sports coaches often fear that empowering the players in their team would undermine their
own leadership status. To investigate the legitimacy of this perception, we mapped the …

The power of empowerment: Predictors and benefits of shared leadership in organizations

CM Edelmann, F Boen, K Fransen - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Leadership plays an essential part in creating competitive advantage and well-being among
employees. One way in which formal leaders can deal with the variety of responsibilities that …

Doing social identity leadership: Exploring the efficacy of an identity leadership intervention on perceived leadership and mobilization in elite disability soccer

MJ Slater, JB Barker - Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Based on social identity principles we explore the efficacy of a leadership intervention in
elite disability sport. A 2-year longitudinal design involved an elite male disability soccer …

Making 'us' better: High-quality athlete leadership relates to health and burnout in professional Australian football teams

K Fransen, SA Haslam, NK Steffens… - European journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Overtraining, exhaustion, and burnout are widely recognized problems amongst elite
athletes. The present research addresses this issue by exploring the extent to which high …