Curious about how stuff works? Do a hands-on experiment at home, says physicist Nadya Mason. Nadya shows how you can demystify the world around you by tapping into curiosity.
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This resource provides some practical ideas and tools to incorporate into your leadership approach to increase your curiosity and openness to experience.
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There's a common belief that "you are how you are" when it comes to "soft" skills (interacting with other people) – and that there's little or nothing you can do about it. Fortunately, this is far from true. And a great place to start improving your soft skills is by developing the ability to empathize with others.
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Learning to pronounce a colleague’s name correctly is not just a common courtesy but it’s an important effort in creating an inclusive workplace, one that emphasizes psychological safety and belonging.
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Why is curiosity so important? First, curious leaders are more open to new experiences, which enables them to approach problems (and people) in a less prejudiced way. In fact, the single best thing that companies can do to promote diversity and inclusion is to hire leaders with high openness scores.
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We can all be blind, at times, to the world around us. We might think we know how stuff works, what drives our people, that we’ve got the solution to the problems. But do we really?
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Conversations are not what we think they are. We’ve grown up thinking they are about talking, sharing, information, telling people what to do, or telling others what’s on our minds. We are now learning, through neurological and cognitive research, that a “conversation” goes deeper and is more robust than simple information.
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I was recently presenting to a group of nurse leaders and asked the question about whether they had ever lost control of their emotions in front of their staff. Many in attendance had but one leader’s response really surprised me. She saw nothing wrong with displaying her anger because “this is who I am and people have to get used to it.”
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