My previous graduate-level statistics coursework requires graduate students to become familiar with the development, validation, and implementation of psychological measures. In an attempt to revise outdated and ambiguous measures of political skill, Kelly Lane (colleague) and I developed a contextualized scale capturing social astuteness in the workplace, or how well an individual understands the motivations and agendas of others at work. Exploratory factor analyses (EFA) were conducted to examine the number of underlying latent constructs and determine the inclusion and exclusion of scale items.