The Five Faces of Curiosity | Leadership Freak

The five faces of curiosity

#1. Inward-facing curiosity:

Who am I?

What do I love doing?

When am I at my best?

What contributions have I made?

What contributions most energize me?

What happens to people when I show up?

What’s the energy level of people after they interact with me?

#4. Solution-facing curiosity:

What have you tried?

What would you try if you were new here?

What do you know?

What’s the question?

If you did know, what would you do?

Who might know?

What advice would you give me if our roles were reversed?

#2. People-facing curiosity:

Ask all the inward-facing questions with a people-facing perspective. For example, “What’s the energy level of people after you interact with them?”

I notice you’re good at…. How did you get good at that? (Add the following question.)

How might I get better at that?

#3. Problem-facing curiosity:

What issues keep returning?

What conversations are you repeatedly having?

What’s frustrating?

What do repeated frustrations say about you? Others?

Five whys.

If you explained this challenge to a novice, what would you say?

What’s making things hard?