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situational awareness
Leaders are moving fast, chasing deadlines, running between meetings, switching focus while scrolling through emails on their mobile. It’s part of modern leadership in a state of always powered on or connected in the digital cosmos. But when everything is moving faster than your brain can comprehend, how do you know if you’re steering it all in the right direction? That’s where situational awareness comes in, not just a sense of what’s happening, but the deeper behavioral currents shaping the room’s mood, the pressure building in a team, and the quiet signals that things are off-track before the data says so. Executive awareness positions leaders in the middle of all the dynamics. It is an approach to tap into the intelligence system that augments the ability to see, decide, and act. In this space, EAs can amplify this presence by mapping the unseen, filtering the noise, and surfacing what matters. And when we do that well, we raise more than awareness. We raise velocity. A situational awareness mindset puts us in a position to manage our executive's physical space and environment with intention. When we step back and scan the surroundings, we raise dynamic thinking and altitude agility, ultimately leading to quick action and improved velocity. Leaders need to be reconditioned to see and move differently. Read the room, and stop normalizing inefficiency. If a leader isn’t picking up the signals that the culture is being impacted or chasing performance metrics at the expense of purpose, the EA is the one who can help reframe the calendar, balancing workstream updates with time spent listening to customers or visiting frontline teams. That’s impact in motion.
Unleashing the full human potential in an organization is why forward-looking companies work so hard to create environments of belonging and psychological safety.
Source: Five leadership shifts can unleash an era of sustainable, inclusive growth for companies looking to outperform in this era of disruption
By Aaron De Smet, Arne Gast, Johanne Lavoie, and Michael Lurie
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