TY - JOUR
T1 - Taking the lead towards healthy performance
T2 - The requirement of leadership to elevate the health and performance teams in elite sports
AU - Verhagen, Evert
AU - Mellette, Jay
AU - Konin, Jeff
AU - Scott, Reggie
AU - Brito, João
AU - Mccall, Alan
N1 - © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.
PY - 2020/1/5
Y1 - 2020/1/5
N2 - Where not too long ago we serviced athletes; nowadays, we have the responsibility to lead a multidisciplinary team that is mandated to protect the athletes' health, ensure competition availability and ability to compete at peak performance. In essence, our roles have shifted from being a service provider to a health and performance manager who steers a multidisciplinary team of specialists. In this viewpoint, we question whether we really have the skills to lead a 'team' like this effectively. We provide a potential definition of leadership and discuss the importance of leadership for health and performance teams with recent literature. Finally, we share our baseline 'leadership' pearls that allow you to elevate collaboration through leadership.
AB - Where not too long ago we serviced athletes; nowadays, we have the responsibility to lead a multidisciplinary team that is mandated to protect the athletes' health, ensure competition availability and ability to compete at peak performance. In essence, our roles have shifted from being a service provider to a health and performance manager who steers a multidisciplinary team of specialists. In this viewpoint, we question whether we really have the skills to lead a 'team' like this effectively. We provide a potential definition of leadership and discuss the importance of leadership for health and performance teams with recent literature. Finally, we share our baseline 'leadership' pearls that allow you to elevate collaboration through leadership.
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088586
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2020-000834
DO - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2020-000834
M3 - Article
C2 - 33088586
SN - 2055-7647
VL - 6
JO - BMJ open sport & exercise medicine
JF - BMJ open sport & exercise medicine
IS - 1
M1 - e000834
ER -