Be A Sensor

If your career development plans include getting a promotion - let alone enjoying success with your current position - you're going to do what it takes to succeed, right?  Presumably then, you're going to have to do great at your current job, with the skills you have - while at the same time, learning/incorporating new skills. 

If this is your situation (please say yes ;) - than I'd like to suggest an important, yet often under appreciated skill, that you most definitely need to put on your list. And that's "sensing." In other words, you need to become a "sensor."

What's a sensor, you ask? Well, it's someone who can interpret, and moreover leverage, "soft data." A good sensor knows how to read body language, gauge the subtle clues, feel the vibe, sniff out the BS, observe the not-so-obvious, and detect the empirically undetectable.  Put another way: see the forest through the tress.  

Granted, being a good sensor is one part DNA; that's why they say common sense is not so common.  But make no mistake, you don't need to be a Jedi. It can be learned, honed, and toned through concerted effort and attention.  That said, be careful not to over use, as it can also be dangerous - especially if you let your "instincts" and so-called "street-smarts," get in the way of using real facts and figures.  After all, information still rules, and economics still wins.  And while perception might be reality, reality is still real (deep, hun.)    

So, when developing your talent repertoire, be sure to incorporate sensoring as a key component/attribute for your personal and professional success. 

Feel me?    

Sensoring Is Good.