Situational Awareness: Passive or Active?
Criminal investigations & intelligence unit supervisor Lou Hayes Jr. says: “When I talk with most folks about Situational Awareness, they mention phrases like:
- being aware of your surroundings;
- know what’s happening around you;
- observing things that stick out.
These behaviors or characteristics aren’t wrong. However, they do bring out a certain flavor of passivity. It’s as if the person is passively monitoring their environment as a receptor of stimuli. It’s, in a way, a defensive way of opening oneself up to receive information, whenever that information decides to reveal itself. In short, information comes to you.
What if we looked at a different posture of situational awareness?
What if we became more active in our pursuit of information?
What if we went on the offense to hunt out information?
What if we pulled information early, as opposed to waiting for it to be pushed to us?…”
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