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#17 Jeremy Holt and Dr Will Thomas – Creating Team Excellence

The Sport Psych Show

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The Importance of Social Identity in a Team

Social identity does not mean having a homogenous group of people. Its individual distinctiveness can actually contribute to creating a team identity if each person in that group has a sense that they contribute something differentSomething distinctive and i mean just to bring it back to um sort of a real sporting example so if you have a player going through on goal uh you know an occasion that happens a hundred times every every Saturday and if they if they shoot on goal they've got a 30% chance of scoring but if they pass to a teammate that teammate got a 70%. If they are acting as in terms of their individual self then they'll shoot so they are acting in a selfish manner. Those decisions happen across

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