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Political Awareness

Political awareness is simply an understanding of these ‘power webs’ and an ability to navigate them, and therefore get things done.

A Model of Political Awareness

1. ‘Reading’, or the skills that an individual uses to understand the world around them.

This dimension is on a spectrum from ‘politically aware’ to ‘politically unaware’, and measures the individual’s ability to ‘read’ the organisation’s processes, agendas (both hidden and stated), the location of power, culture, style, and so on. Political unawareness is defined as the inability, or perhaps unwillingness, to recognise any of these aspects.

The two ends of the spectrum might therefore be defined as ‘clever’ and ‘innocent’. The ‘clever’ people are those who understand and use political power within an organisation, and the ‘innocents’ are the ones who do not even notice its existence.

This dimension, then, describes an individual’s awareness of the politics of the organisation.

2. ‘Carrying’, or the skills that an individual uses to understand their internal world.

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