Written by: Léa Agbo, Executive Contributor
Executive Contributors at Brainz Magazine are handpicked and invited to contribute because of their knowledge and valuable insight within their area of expertise.
Your brain is a great tool, and it's capable of analysing several scenarios, reactions and hypotheses based on your environment. So, it is important to train it to detect only what will serve your projects to success.
This is why situational awareness is a skill to cultivate.
Concretely, what is it for? It helps you to understand and use basic environmental elements to become a strategist and adopt the appropriate behaviours. How? By improving your ability to adapt, avoid the odds, and identify opportunities not to be missed.
Indeed, situational awareness also gives us the ability to predict the immediate and future repercussions of our actions and decisions. By practicing it, we become more skilled to provoke new opportunities and control their unfolding.
Situational awareness… serving your vision
The entrepreneur is defined by:
… the ability to move forward, to evolve and to improve
… the ability to innovate and grow along with their business
… the ability to persevere through...
… a clear vision of the present, and …
… a clear vision of the future and what has to be achieved to realise it.
Situational awareness involves being grounded in the present, which leads to more factual and rapid realisation of your ambitions. Being fully focused on current challenges keeps you on course, while avoiding deviation from set objectives. However, you must feed your vision with the required materials, elements, and tools.
Start developing your situational awareness!
The only variable is you.
This is why it is essential that you know yourself.
To identify yourself, it is first a question of self-observation. Evaluating and understanding yourself at every point you find yourself; why you are with that particular client for, in this meeting, at this after-work, in this trade show, or in a web conference. You have to learn to be a spectator of yourself. So, practice as soon as you can.
The next stage is self-assessment. This deals with how you react in specific situations when unforeseen events come up or even being confronted with different ways of doing things and different behaviours? The idea here is to analyse your state of mind, the emotional consequences and your feelings in well-defined configurations. Developing your situational awareness requires much practice to understand yourself better and find your own keys.
3 tips to apply
Our brain continuously sorts the information sent to it. Why? Because we are only able to handle a certain amount of information… at a time.
Therefore, here are 3 tips to apply:
Develop a clear and sharp mind in order to make sharp decisions ‒ lucidity
Eliminate distractions as they arise – stay focused
(Re)contextualise – get back to basics
Only by cultivating this type of mindset, you will annihilate all sources of error and leave room only for your greatest efficiency. You will thus increase the coherence of your actions and the level of your organisation.
To always go and seek what you want, you need to have:
clear objectives
a strategic thinking/mindset
challenges in line with your capacities at the moment
the desire to leave your comfort zone.
Be involved in everything around you that is related to what you deserve and can lead you to success.
Conclusion
Our brain is genetically designed to observe, meet challenges and overcome obstacles. You will quickly realise that confronting the parameters that impact you is one of the best ways to bring your own solutions.
At the same time, you will also understand that as your capacity for self-appreciation grows, ignorance and apprehension fade to leave room only for the correctness of your behaviours and actions.
Situational awareness will then be your best ally no matter what situations you find yourself in.
Léa Agbo, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Léa is an entrepreneur and infopreneur, a certified coach in positive psychology, and a specialist in cross-cultural business. With over 10 years of experience in personal development, her focus is for you to become a better version of yourself.
A wide range of clients, including entrepreneurs, require her services to smoothly optimize their lives and/or business projects, have more confidence and energy to pursue their goals, and build real, constructive, and consistent self-esteem.
She specifically coaches entrepreneurs on the cross-cultural aspects of their businesses and is the author of the ‘Globalisation Programme.’
Léa holds a master’s degree in Strategic Business Management and Entrepreneurship. She is also a Certified Operational Manager. Léa is the Founder of AGBO Business Consulting, a company aiming to challenge you to the next level.
