Many misunderstandings arise when social awareness is lacking. Why? First off, because without social awareness you cannot understand why the others are behaving in a certain way: for instance, gossiping, ignoring you, or trying to manipulate you. You then have fewer options for managing their behavior. We can see below the major consequences of lacking social awareness:
- You take your colleague's or boss's behavior as a personal attack and feel hurt, when no hurt was intended, and it was nothing to do with you.
- You cannot read your audience's feelings about you, your ideas or your organization. Therefore, you pitch your presentation at the wrong level, raising hostility and negation in your audience, ...
