Building situational awareness & intuitive intelligence

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By Patricia Paolini, Business Development Manager – Training

Sharpen your senses, strengthen your response 

When we’re under stress, our perception of a situation can take over completely. Our entire system reacts as if we’re in real danger. This creates tunnel vision, narrowing our focus to what frightens us, rather than helping us gather accurate information and make thoughtful decisions.  But there is a better way. 

By training ourselves to see the full picture and focusing on facts, details, and engaging our higher reasoning, we can respond with clarity instead of reacting to imagined threats. 

This is called ‘situational awareness’. 

Enter your three superpowers: 

Superpower 1: Situational Awareness 

This is the ability to stay grounded in the present moment, rather than being pulled into memories or future worries. 

Superpower 2: Intention 

Think of this as your mental preparation. Setting a clear intention for your day. A meeting, or an interaction shapes how you show up and respond. 

Superpower 3: Sensory Perception 

Sharpening your senses helps you stay connected to what’s real, allowing your experiences to guide you rather than overwhelm you. 

It’s easy to get distracted by past experiences, emotional fatigue, uncertainty, or fear. But developing your intuitive intelligence is something anyone can do - and it starts with awareness. 

Now is the perfect time to begin. The present may be challenging, but it’s also full of opportunity. The future isn’t written yet, but it becomes more navigable when we align with our ‘inner compass’. 

Recognising where we are and where we want to go is the first step. The reward? A deeper sense of security that can carry us through any storm, real or imagined. 

Enter Peak’s Situational Awareness program,  delivered by Senior Facilitator Sue-Ellen Kusher.   

Situational awareness is the understanding of an environment, its elements, and how other factors such as time or direction or intent might impact the event.  Situational awareness is critical for effective decision making. 

In this workshop we explore sensory intake (how we acquire information), how our preferences and lack of preparation take over unless we intervene.  How we individually and uniquely take outcomes from being random and repetitive, to becoming purposeful and influential. Sue-Ellen covers the following topics within the Situational Awareness workshop:

• Recognising your senses and identifying your well-developed ones.
• Building performance in hidden places.
• Stepping beyond justification and into choice.
• A speedy technique for making choices that sit well for you.
• Discovering what is personally important and how that helps in tough times.
• Mirroring magic – how you can help to generate the results you want.
• Understanding the chemistry of stress and how management delivers wins.
• Holding yourself accountable. 

About Sue-Ellen Kusher

Since 1994 Sue-Ellen has been helping people find ways of accessing, learning, testing and perfecting techniques that work for them. She specialises in environments requiring complex communication – presentation, conflict, motivation, performance management, team productivity and especially leadership. As a learning facilitator and a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (the study of behavioural excellence) her skill set is aided by her accreditation in assessment and development tools focused on emotional intelligence, communication, performance, personality profiling, and mediation. 

Whether you hold an existing leadership or management position, or you are another type of employee, the rules are the same; every time you speak to another person you are both representing and presenting a message about your workplace. In an environment flooded with information, the ability to present council functions clearly and highlight the value, purpose, and effectiveness of what’s being asked is essential. 

This is where Sue-Ellen operates and has developed skills, examples, options, approaches, and strategies that make a difference.  Her goal is to help every person with whom she works, feel better, want better, and look for better options that will deliver improved outcomes.  Sue-Ellen Kusher has accumulated close to 30 years of successful outcomes that demonstrate the worth of the effort she makes on your behalf.