situational awareness

(noun)

the perception of environmental elements with respect to time and/or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status after some variable has changed, such as time, or some other variable, such as a predetermined event.

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Examples of situational awareness in the following topics:

  • Situational and Environmental Context

    • Situational context refers to the actual reason why you are speaking or presenting.
    • The key then, to understanding your context is to develop a habit of situational awareness.
    • Situational awareness refers to one's perception of their environment and situation around them on a moment by moment basis.
    • In being situationally aware, you can anticipate changes to your environment.
    • The environmental and situational contexts in which you give a speech, like in so many situations in life, is key.

  • Project-Based Learning in Kayla's situation

    • A web communication technologies group, for example, may decide to list the features of effective communication tools and discover potential situations to implement them.
    • They are aware of the resources available to them; they collaborate to fine-tune their ideas.

  • Tools for Managing Situational Anxiety

    • Situational anxiety can be managed with deep breathing and by getting your blood flowing before you set foot on stage.
    • You will want to analyze and make note of things that might be distracting or awkward, often the result of situational anxiety.

  • Cognitive Biases

    • A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment that occurs in particular situations and can lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality.
    • Managers must be aware of their own logical and perceptive fallacies and the biases of others.
    • A few useful perceptual distortions managers should be aware of include:
    • In this situation, they believe that their confidence in their decision is founded on a rational and logical assessment of the facts when it is not.
    • It is easy to see the cause-effect relationship in completely random situations.

  • Situational Anxiety

    • Also known as stage fright, situational anxiety is the short-term form of anxiety surrounding public speaking.
    • Many people with no other problems can experience stage fright (also called performance anxiety), but some people with chronic stage fright also have social anxiety or social phobias which are chronic feelings of high anxiety in any social situation.
    • Stage fright can also be seen in school situations, like stand up projects and class speeches.
    • However, long range vision is improved making the speaker more aware of their audience's facial expressions and non verbal cues in response to the speaker's performance.
    • Situational anxiety, often referred to as stage fright with regard topublic speaking, is a temporary, short-term form of anxiety triggered bycertain situations or experiences.

  • Unconscious Perception and Influences on Behavior

    • Our brains take in more information than we are consciously aware of, which influence our perceptions and behaviors.
    • It affects our behavior because perception allows us to assess situations and decide on suitable reactions.
    • It takes in much more information than we are consciously aware of.
    • Despite not being consciously aware of it, much of this information still influences how we think and act.
    • Contemporary research, however, suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness.

  • The Role of Attention in Memory

    • By paying attention to particular information (and not other information), a person creates memories that could be (and probably are) different from someone else in the same situation.
    • This is why two people can see the same situation but create different memories about it—each person performs attentional capture differently.
    • Very simply, it's when something new catches your focus and you become aware of and focused on that new stimulus.
    • A person pays attention to a given stimulus, either consciously (explicitly, with awareness) or unconsciously.
    • This stimulus is then encoded into working memory, at which point the memory is manipulated either to associate it with another familiar concept or with another stimulus within the current situation.

  • Promotion Strategies

    • Promotion strategies differ depending on the individual business or product, but all strive to increase product demand and awareness.
    • Marketing strategy includes all basic and long-term activities in the field of marketing that deal with the analysis of the strategic situation of a company and the formulation, evaluation and selection of market-oriented strategies and therefore contribute to the goals of the company and its marketing objectives.
    • Marketing strategies may differ depending on the unique situation of the individual business or product.

  • Techniques for Accepting Criticism

    • " For criticism to be truly effective, it must have the goal of improving a situation, without using hostile language or involving personal attacks.
    • Receiving criticism is a listening skill that is valuable in many situations throughout life: at school, at home, and in the workplace.
    • Even if you do not agree with the criticism, others may be seeing something that you are not even aware of.

  • Marketing objectives

    • Having identified stakeholder expectations, carried out a detailed situation analysis, and made an evaluation of the capabilities of the company, the overall marketing goals can be set.
    • At an operational level, the national managers need to have an achievable and detailed plan for each country, which will take account of the local situation, explain what is expected of them, and how their performance will be measured.