Now a year into work from home, how engaged are you, your employees, or your teams a year into the pandemic? How are colleagues communicating? Collaborating? Coordinating? For many companies, engagement is highly correlated to their corporate culture, and remote work has either helped them emerge stronger as a team or  uncovered cracks in accountability, team support, communication, and a general lack of humanity. Curiosity is … Continue reading CURIOSITY CONVERSATIONS TO DISCOVER IF YOU HAVE AN ENGAGED COMPANY CULTURE

The easiest and most effective way a leader or manager can incorporate curiosity is through nurturing  safe and inclusive teams or company cultures. First of all and most often ignored, leaders or managers need to respect their employees and trust them as sources of support to get the job done. Secondly, leaders or managers need to provide the opportunity for employees to be seen and heard … Continue reading Curiosity for Safe & Inclusive Teams

My favorite way to create mutually beneficial relationships is either through “kick the tire” or “KTT” conversations periodically or after the “business” of any meeting is conducted. Before Covid, these casual conversations over drinks on Tuesday nights, Thursday afternoon coffee breaks, or Friday lunch meetings where I invested time into my relationships. Now with Covid, these conversations occur over virtual meetings or calls that I … Continue reading Curiosity for Kick the Tires

Healthy relationships are grounded in trust and respect. The ability to connect with your colleagues in moments that are not grounded in a transaction or immediate financial benefit builds trust and respect to share, understand, and grow together. If you engage with customers and clients from a place of building a relationship based on trust and respect, your connection becomes one of value and provides … Continue reading Curiosity for Relationships

Curiosity supports a “learning culture” which creates safe spaces in a company or on a team where colleagues can be vulnerable and share their experiences from a place of feedback, improvement, and a continuous cycle of improvement for the collective future. It’s the equivalent of the coach of a sports team reviewing playback footage with team members and determining what plays were executed well, where … Continue reading Curiosity for a learning culture

As the calendar year continues, I invite you to incorporate curiosity to foster a learning culture on your teams. A company that embraces a learning culture will find that their employees communicate better on their teams, in their companies, and with customers or clients. Ultimately, curious learning cultures experience better outcomes. In a learning culture that embraces curiosity, professionals can have uncomfortable conversations that are … Continue reading Curiosity for a Learning Culture

It’s two weeks into the New Year. How are you feeling? I ask myself this question every day and use my curiosity every day to understand how I am feeling. And sometimes, the answer helps me get out of bed and start my day. I have goals and ambitions for 2021 and I use my curiosity to check in on how they are going- were … Continue reading Temperature Check

Curiosity Conversations for the future!  Happy 2021! As you turned your calendars and start this new year, I invite you to consider curiosity as a part of your new year’s resolution or new habit.  During 2020, perhaps your life may have  felt like every day was January, and now that it is January once again it seems like life has become like living in a tunnel and … Continue reading Curiosity for the Future