The first month of the New Year is nearly over. How are you feeling? It’s a generic open-ended question. But it is sincere in my intent. I hope that you truly are finding a way to improve one small part of your life with curiosity. Perhaps, curiosity has helped heal a relationship, find a work opportunity, or led to a better outcome in any part of … Continue reading Month One Down
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
Happy New Year! With the turn of the calendar and the drafting of new resolutions, I invite you to consider being more curious this year. Curiosity is the jedi mind trick at the heart of everything in life- strong relationships, clear communication, and achieving your goals. Curiosity drives grit, resilience, compassion, empathy, and an open mind. No wonder why curious people are happier! Adding curiosity to … Continue reading Curiosity for New Year’s Resolution
Curiosity Conversations for starting 2021 with a fresh perspective! Collectively, it has been a rough year for us all. Our lives have jumped from the 20th to 22nd century in what feels like overnight while we all live in defense of the deadly Covid virus. Everyone is exhausted by these massive changes and would love to press “restart” on their lives at the beginning of the New … Continue reading Curiosity for a Fresh Perspective
Curiosity Conversations to connect, live, and work with people with different opinions, beliefs, and values In this month’s edition of Curiosity Conversations, I want to explore the use of curiosity conversations as a tool to engage, connect, live, work, and respect people that have different opinions, beliefs, and choices than those of your own. Curiosity Conversations is designed to make uncomfortable conversations comfortable. The goal of … Continue reading Curiosity Conversations to connect, live, and work with people with different opinions, beliefs, and values
In this month’s edition of Curiosity Conversations, I want to explore the use of curiosity in communicating the difficult conversations. A difficult conversation is uncomfortable. Leading a difficult conversation requires an ability to communicate open, honestly, and with empathy about the intent to reduce the fear, uncertainty, or unknown. Emotional words, actions, or mindsets challenge a successful conversation, prevent connection, and erode relationships.Using curiosity can … Continue reading Curiosity Conversations for Managing Difficult Conversations
In this month’s newsletter I want to explore curious communication as an employee benefit. To attract and retain talent, large companies offer a range of benefits such as health care, sick leave, paid vacation, tuition reimbursement, and 401k contribution matching to support our welfare. Imagine a world if corporate learning and culture could provide opportunities to teach, nurture, and communication as benefit. You were hired for … Continue reading Curiosity Conversations as an Employee Benefit
For most of us, since March the world has been working remotely. Suddenly our society leaped from the 20thto the 22nd century overnight. Now that it appears that the world will be working remotely for the foreseeable future, I wanted to address working remotely in this month’s curiosity conversations. Working remotely is major change to organizational design, communication, and engagement. Moreover, there are cultural norms and … Continue reading Curiosity Conversations for Remote Working
Curiosity Conversations: Creating Safe & Inclusive Work Environments Creating and safe and inclusive work environment is the most important part of a company’s culture. Safe and inclusive work environments are defined by open communication, transparency, and high employee engagement. Safe and inclusive work environments are built on trust and respect. People that work at companies with safe and inclusive work environments often say that “they … Continue reading Curiosity Conversations for creating safe & inclusive work environments
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