Become a better leader by promoting curiosity in the workplace. Increasing curiosity in employees leads to an interactive, healthy, and productive team.
3. Curious Leaders
Leaders need to:
Create a curious learning environment
Make learning a requirement
Explore and broaden employee interests
Inspire employees
Make employees problem solvers
Be curious as a leader
4. Curious Team Members
How to make curious team members:
Seek inspiration
Challenge their assumptions
Ask them questions like the why, how, and what if
Ask a problem as a question
Ask open ended questions
Lead the team with a curious leader
Create opportunities for team members
Do not make them afraid to fail
5. How to Model Curiosity Early and Often
The slides below will explain what Robinson Logistics will
expect from their top leaders to help create a curious
learning environment and to inspire our team members to be
curious!
6. Hold Team Huddles
Group meets between leaders and
team
Have chosen topics from team
Ask open ended questions to gain
team participation
Have team members answer the how,
what,and why
7. Document on a Scoreboard
Scoreboard to track progress
Cover objectives, status,
issues and recommendations
This conversation should
encourage joint problem
solving rather than just
reporting
9. Curiosity in the workplace
Curiosity in the workplace will:
Reduce conflicts
Reduce decision making errors
Increase efficiency
Increase productivity
Helps to embrace diversity
Helps to experience growth
10. The best in business have boundless
curiosity and open minds
Jenny Garrett
11. References
F. Gino (2018). The business case for curiosity. Retrieved from
https://hbr.org/2018/09/the-business-case-for-curiosity
D. McGinn (2021). Why you should foster curiosity as a skill at work. Retrieved
from https://www.headspringexecutive.com/curiosity-in-the-workplace/
Berkeley University of Californina (2022).Steps to building an effective team.
Retrieved from https://hr.berkeley.edu/hr-network/central-guide-managing-
hr/managing-hr/interaction/team-building/steps