Recently I was interviewing leadership expert Brett White of Be Leaders for a full episode of the podcast that’s coming out really soon – we were discussing leaders behaviours.
Now it’s no surprise to most of us that this is an important topic because we know people follow our actions not our words.
Brett has developed a framework of 15 core and key leadership behaviours and as we were unpacking some of them the topic of curiosity came up.
And it immediately struck a chord with me because, as I’ve discussed in other episodes of the podcast, I think it’s a hidden super power we all have but often don’t use.
Remember how curious you were as a kid? I was the ‘but why’ kid. We were all curious, but it fades away over time.
And what I see when I’m talking to business owners is that we so often tend to make assumptions, or jump to conclusions or think we know what people are thinking, or why they are behaving a certain way – but that’s all a construct of our minds.
Without being curious we miss the clues and ques, the warning signs and red flags, we miss opportunities.
So start to have more curious conversations, be more curious in everything you do. You’ll understand your people better, they’ll feel valued and heard, and it will help inform much better decision making when it comes to you team.
