The world as we know it has evolved because of people whose curiosity was encouraged, resulting in a host of unexpected discoveries.
Today, however, we tend to avoid curious exploration to mitigate the risk from the unknown. Smart L&D teams realize that curiosity is no longer an option but a necessity to emerge from the events of 2020 stronger, and ready to add business value.
Here we discuss how intentional curious cultivation, can indeed lead to business value and spoiler...higher potential revenue. And who doesn't want that?
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Survey of
520
CLO’s…
Discourage curiosity
because the company
would be harder to
manage, and
disagreements would
arise slowing
productivity and
execution.
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Higher levels of
collaboration
More Open
Communication
More accepting of
positive changes
Less Confirmation
Bias
Reduced Group
Conflict
Curiosity
helps
business
Chat – Other ideas?
HBR: The Business Case for Curiosity
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Epistemic: Stimulate
intellectual interest i.e. “There
must be a better way”.
Perceptual: Calming the itch in
our minds #whodunnit
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Chat- Which mostly describes you?
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Making Questioning
a Practice
Embrace Uncertainty
Taking an interest beyond THIS moment
Look at reality from a different point-of-view
Challenge what you think you know
Chat – What are some current realities we can reframe?
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Challenge what
you know
Humans use all
their brains, not
just 10%
Bats are not blind
Left-brained people
and right-brained
people are the same
The Ebbinghaus
Forgetting Curve,
isn’t a consistent
“curve”
Marie Antoinette
did not say, “Let
them eat cake”
George
Washington did
not have wooden
teeth
Napoleon was not
short
Goldfish have
memories that last
months, not
seconds
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Discovery through Intentional Cultivation
Discovery is not made without intent. Cool but has diminishing returns.
(perpetual curiosity)
Chat – Where do your best ideas come from?
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03
Change
vocabulary
Sharing Progress
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02
01
Rethink Brainstorming.
Feedback
Department websites
Rewarding effort
Reconsider your Environment
Change mindset
around
questioning
Supporting
Experimentation
Reframing questions before
meeting
Deep thinking & Focused work
Collaboration
Relaxing
What if…
How about…
Ban: “never’ & “always”
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Lean into
Failure
Building psychological
safety into everything
you do.
Build a comfort level in
not knowing and making
mistakes.
https://learninguncut.libsyn.com/emergent-series-accelerating-learning-from-failure-brian-murphy-and-jeff-mariola