Building Coactive Sport Teams by Line, Jo;

Short description:

This book develops and presents an asset-focused framework to guide coaches in engaging athletes as coactors. It provides an asset-focused, inclusive approach to involving all team members in collaborating to achieve shared goals, a process called coaction.

Long description:

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.

"As a scholar in coach education, I constantly seek innovative approaches that serve all athletes. This book delivers precisely that. For too long, sport has clung to a narrow, hierarchical view of leadership. This insightful book dismantles those limitations, offering a powerful, inclusive alternative in 'coaction' and provides a compelling and actionable framework for coaches to move beyond traditional, exclusionary leadership models. Prepare to rethink how you empower your athletes – this book is a game-changer."  

Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, Director, Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, University of Minnesota

“Sport in our country is in desperate need of a revolution, and shifting from leadership to coaction is the way. This book invites us to shift our mindset and actions on and off the field to create a sports culture that is healthier and athletes who are empowered, interconnected, and more fully actualized. Dr. Line hits the perfect mix of theory and practice, highlighting the voices of athletes, coaches, and experts in the field. Rigorous and inspiring, deeply exciting and immediately accessible, this book will be a constant companion for coaches, administrators, athletes and parents. Dr. Line sees the future of sports clearly and shows how coaction will lead us all to more joy, transformation, and community in sport.”

Ellie Roscher, Author of Fair Game: Trans Inclusion And The Future Of Sports

“A must read for anyone who plays a role within a group or team, with a special focus on athletic coaches, administrators, and support staff involved in sports. Anyone who works with others will find value in these pages. In particular, those who view the world through a collective lens, appreciate the power of collaboration and recognize that a team’s strength lies in its members’ unique qualities will discover validation, visibility, and encouragement to trust their instincts, along with practical tools and strategies to immediately apply. This book is for those who know there has to be a better way.”

Barb Anthony, MSSA LISW-S, Founder/Executive Director of Play Gap

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments Interviewee Biographies 1: Why We Need to Think Differently about Athlete Leadership Development 2: The New Framework: The Coactive Process 3: Cultivating Coaction Through Valuing Team Members as Their Full Selves 4: Share the Power 5: Co-Creating Purpose 6: Building a Foundation through Alignment, Not Sameness Conclusion: Your Team’s Coactive Process