The Curious Leader’s Secret Weapon

What happens when you dare to wonder more about the people you’re managing?

Take a tip from the curious child to level-up your management.

Ever watched a child playing with something wildly simple and feel your own joy multiply? Turns out, bringing a similar level of open-mindedness and learning to your work as a manager will have an enormous impact on the people you work with.

Getting curious involves truly learning about folks, both as people in the world and in how they think about the work. It involves asking one more question (Two more? Three?) than might be instinct and being authentically interested in the answers. The curious leader approaches work and relationships as collaborative learning experiences.

What we love about this concept is how simple it is.

And yet, it brings big benefits -

✔ For the employee, who feels trusted (and thus trusting) as an expert in their work and seen as a person beyond it
✔ For the leader, who gets excellent ideas about how to work smarter or better or more thoughtfully

Here’s a go-to list of questions that the curious leader can begin to use today -

❔ What am I missing?
❔ What's on your mind?
❔ What questions do you have?
❔ What could go wrong here?
❔ How would you approach it?
❔ What are you thinking about?
❔ What else?
❔ That’s interesting - can you tell me more?

Curious about working with us?

Satisfy the part that wants to know more by reaching out today! We are a pressure-free organization and we (genuinely) want to learn more about you.