How to Boost your Career with Intentional Curiosity

During the expert session, Stefaan van Hooydonk engages the participants through interactive activities and discussions. The Mentimeter app or other tooling is used to share thoughts and learn from one another. 

• Curiosity as a Professional Asset: Understand how maintaining and enhancing curiosity can lead to higher earnings, faster career progression, and greater job satisfaction.
• Benefits of Curiosity: Discover how curious professionals are better at learning, adapting to change, and maintaining relationships, contributing to overall happiness and deeper self-awareness.
• Strategies to Cultivate Curiosity: Learn practical techniques to grow your curiosity, enabling personal and professional growth, and fostering a more dynamic and innovative approach to challenges.

Every person is born with a healthy dose of curiosity. However, while some people manage to maintain this level of curiosity throughout adulthood, many see its original strength diminish over time. Curiosity is akin to a muscle that requires intentional focus and exercise to grow. By nurturing our curiosity, we can enhance our capacity to rise above ourselves both as individuals and professionals. Research has shown that curious professionals tend to make more money, progress faster in their careers, and find greater happiness in life. They also excel at maintaining relationships, learn more quickly, are more open to change, and possess a deeper self-awareness.

In the professional realm, curiosity plays a crucial role. Curious individuals are not only more adaptable but also better equipped to navigate the complexities of the modern workplace. They embrace new challenges, seek out learning opportunities, and are more innovative in their approach to problem-solving. This mindset leads to increased job satisfaction and a more dynamic career trajectory. Additionally, curious professionals foster more meaningful relationships with colleagues and clients, which can significantly enhance their professional network and opportunities for advancement.

This interactive session will delve into the concept of curiosity, examining its importance in our professional lives. Participants will explore various strategies to cultivate and strengthen their curiosity, enabling them to harness its benefits for personal and career growth. Through engaging discussions and practical exercises, attendees will learn how to maintain and enhance their innate curiosity, leading to a more fulfilling and successful professional journey. Join us to discover how you can leverage curiosity to achieve greater success and satisfaction in your career and life.

How Leaders Create Curious Organisations

The shadow a manager casts on the team is one of the biggest drivers for productivity, engagement and the feeling of well-being of the team. Those managers who do this well, uplift the team. Those who don’t, stifle it. The key to effective task management and people leadership is curiosity. Curious leaders are good at operationalizing the present as well as securing the future. They create the psychological safety for the team to thrive. Curious leaders represent a high level of cognitive, empathic, and self-reflective curiosity. They are curious about the world around them, the people they work with and about their own internal conscious and unconscious drivers. They go out of their way to engage with their team, also in times of crisis. They stretch their teams to excel in the present and to embrace the future. They are Intentionally curious. In this interactive session we explore what we know about curiosity and why it is important for leaders, teams, and organizations.