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Writer's pictureDan Pandeni Idhenga

Why Curiosity Is an Essential Leadership Trait | Dan Idhenga

Updated: Jul 22

Not everyone can be a leader, which is why you should always refine your skills with tips like these.


Curiosity and the willingness to learn and grow are essential to any successful leader. After all, there are goals to constantly strive for, new innovations and materials to be studied, and information to be learned.

Moreover, there are plenty of benefits to being curious as a leader. Here are just a few of those benefits.

"Curiosity is what helps leaders to improve and innovate the existing methods. It is also what helps leaders capture the proper information to drive their team forward and achieve the tasks and goals laid out before them."

Innovation

Curiosity is what encourages employees to look for critical information not only from one another but from leaders. By being curious about developments in the industry, you show them that you are invested in learning and growing.

Curious leaders also tend to take the challenging situations on with a more creative eye. That curiosity ultimately fosters a better performance by encouraging people to find new and different solutions to an existing problem.


Motivation

One of the most critical aspects of being a leader is inspiring the team, right? Well, one of the best ways to motivate the team is to show that you, as the leader, are trying to grow and improve as well. Perhaps something such as a workshop would be beneficial. Task each staff member to think up a viable solution to the problem at hand.


Curiosity is also seen as being just as essential as intelligence. Curiosity is what helps leaders to improve and innovate the existing methods. It is also what helps leaders capture the proper information to drive their team forward and achieve the tasks and goals laid out before them.


Encourages Learning

No matter what role we play, both in work and in life, we should always be striving to learn. By learning and growing through experiences, we become better at what we do. Not only that, but we tend to learn new and more creative methods for problem-solving.


Curious leaders ask themselves all the time what unique challenges they face. They ask questions that relate to the problem. They listen to their team members, inviting constructive discussion. They know there is always new information to be gleaned.


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