Shared Mental Model

Situation Monitoring

"Attention to details is one of the most important details."

Situation Monitoring:
Is the process of continually scanning and assessing what's going on around you to maintain situation awareness.

It is made possible by a state of vigilant mindfulness related to team functioning with respect to a desired or pre-determined outcome.

In simple terms it is the state of "knowing the current conditions affecting a team's work."

It is a process of actively scanning behaviors and actions to assess elements of the situation or environment

With a shared mental model, it helps to assure that all team members are "on the same page."

To begin our discussion of Situation Monitoring, let's look at a humorous example of poor Situation Monitoring.

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The foundation or starting point of effective situation monitoring is achieving a shared mental model.

We will now look at what this means.