Innovative Leadership: Developing Curiosity
Offered By: FutureLearn
Course Description
Overview
Identify how curiosity can drive business innovation and advance your career
In just three weeks you’ll learn how to develop your sense of intellectual curiosity, overcoming inhibition to drive innovation and change in your organisation.
Learn from world-leading performance expert Dr. Diane Hamilton
Creator of the Curiosity Code Index® and the acclaimed author of ‘Cracking the Curiosity Code’, Dr. Diane Hamilton is a renowned thought-leader in business management, innovation, and leadership.
On this course, she will guide you into understanding the importance and value of curiosity – how it can spark innovation, and drive engagement at work.
Dr. Hamilton will show you how being more curious can make the difference in decision-making – and become a key leadership quality.
As the former MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business – and with decades of business training experience – she is perfectly placed to give you expert advice on motivation and innovation in the workplace.
Explore how curiosity can boost your leadership skills
Curiosity is a basic human trait, and one which is vital for survival. However, the value of curiosity in organisations has often been overlooked in theories of innovation.
On this course, you’ll explore and evaluate what stops people from being curious, and discover the ways you can overcome your own doubts to harness the power of curiosity – leading lasting change in your organisation or business.
This course is designed for learners in the working world who would like to advance their career. All level of employees, HR professionals, and executives could benefit from the content in this course.
Syllabus
- Curiosity: why it matters
- Welcome to Innovative Leadership: Developing Curiosity
- Value for business
- Why curiosity is important for survival
- The relationship of curiosity to motivation and drive
- End of week wrap up/look at next week
- Curiosity in our lives
- Welcome to Week 2!
- Leadership, engagement and decision making
- Intelligence (IQ and EQ) and success
- Creativity and innovation
- End of week wrap up
- Which factors impact curiosity? and how to overcome them
- Welcome to the final week
- What holds us back?
- The four inhibitors (FATE)
- Overcoming FATE
- Course wrap up
Taught by
Dr. Diane Hamilton
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