PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY with Jamie Taylor

• 1:24: How Jamie ended up working with coaches through his journey as a health and human performance professor.
• 2:17 - Given that Jamie is currently balancing teaching and “coaching” coaches, would he like to eventually transition into a role where he would just focus on working with coaches?
• 3:20 - High-performance sports has a history of applying ideas like growth mindset and grit (that are used in the context of another field of study like education). Why does Jamie think this is problematic?
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• 8:19 - Have Jamie found an effective way to apply growth mindset concepts (like the implicit theory) to sports?
• 10:09 - What are common ways that Jamie has observed coaches apply growth mindset concepts to their coaching?
• 11:54 - How does Jamie define the concept of psychological safety?
• 13:47 - Where has most of the research regarding psychological safety been done?
• 14:11 - Jamie’s thoughts on common ways that psychological safety has been applied in the sports world.
• 22:10 - How does the concept of “safetyism” differ from psychological safety?
• 23:18 - Has Jamie observed coaches mistakenly apply safetyism when attempting to implement psychological safety?
• 25:06 - Could the implementation of psychological safety make a difference in the worldwide struggle with mental health in athletes?
• 26:45 - Can high levels of psychological safety negatively impact motivation and effort levels?
• 28:11 - Explaining the concept of “driven benevolence”.
• 29:02 - What are the most worthwhile components of psychological safety to apply to high performance athletics?

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