One thing you can start doing right now to get the results youβre after
When I was a little kid, I constantly asked questions (sorry mom and dad).
β Why can’t I do that?
β What does that mean?
β Why can they do it and I can’t?
β How can I climb that tree like Janet (my sister)
β What presents does Santa bring us since there are a bunch already wrapped in the attic with my name?
β What would it look like if I did x, y or z?
I was a curious child and wanted to understand everything.
As I got older, the more I was taught to stop asking so many questions. From parents to teachers and then when I first entered the workforce, managers. It was viewed as “annoying” or they’d become frustrated because they didn’t have an answer and weren’t willing to seek one out.
When I entered the professional workforce as a sales executive and then became a leader of people, this skill started serving me beautifully.
Sales is easy to see the correlation - this helped me identify pains and desires to align to our products/services.
Being a leader of people - this skill served me to no end. Why? It allowed me to:
β‘β‘ Get to know my team
β‘β‘ Understand their needs and desires
β‘β‘ Help them navigate through projects
β‘β‘ Get underneath a challenge faster whether it was with a client, project or employee
β‘β‘ Coach and develop them
β‘β‘ Partner with them to create career paths
β‘β‘ Explain the “why’s”
β‘β‘ Understand why they do what they do
β‘β‘ Help my peers, leader and those across the organization
As an Executive Coach, this skill is priceless.
When you get curious, you move things along faster. Whether it be overcoming problems, growing relationships, getting new clients, delivering on a big project, or upgrading your products/services.
Curiosity allows you to gain knowledge and as Sir Francis Bacon said, "π¬ππ’ππ§ππ’π π©π¨πππ§ππ’π ππ¬π”.
Knowledge is power.
