How to Boost your Career with Intentional Curiosity
Stefaan van Hooydonk
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
Book a demo →from €2,250 for your whole company
This one runs as an interactive workshop: the hour includes exercises your colleagues do themselves, not only a talk.
After building a distinguished career as Chief Learning Officer, a learning innovator and strategist for multinational companies such as Philips, Agfa, Cognizant, Flipkart and Nokia, Stefaan van Hooydonk founded the Global Curiosity Institute where he and his team are supporting professionals, teams and organisations to foster a mindset of curiosity. He has been globally recognized for his innovative approach to learning, people and technology. Stefaan has a Master’s degree in Economics and in Chinese, together with postgraduate degrees in Marxist Economics from China, Cross Cultural Management from France and an Executive MBA from Rutgers University. He is a certified ICF and NLP coach.
All sessions by Stefaan →Every person is born with a healthy dose of curiosity. Some people can maintain this level through adulthood, many however see its original strength diminish over time. Curiosity is like a muscle. With intentional focus we can grow our curiosity and capacity to rise above ourselves as individuals and professionals.
Research has shown that curious professionals make more money and progress faster through their career, are happier in life and are better at maintaining relationships. They also learn faster, are more open to change and benefit from a deeper self-awareness.
In this interactive session we will explore what we know about curiosity, why it is important in our professional life and we will reflect on strategies to get better at it.
During the expert session, Stefaan van Hooydonk engages the participants through interactive activities and discussions. The Mentimeter app or other tooling is used to share thoughts and learn from one another.
Understand how maintaining and enhancing curiosity can lead to higher earnings, faster career progression, and greater job satisfaction.
Discover how curious professionals are better at learning, adapting to change, and maintaining relationships, contributing to overall happiness and deeper self-awareness.
Learn practical techniques to grow your curiosity, enabling personal and professional growth, and fostering a more dynamic and innovative approach to challenges.
Every person is born with a healthy dose of curiosity. However, while some people manage to maintain this level of curiosity throughout adulthood, many see its original strength diminish over time. Curiosity is akin to a muscle that requires intentional focus and exercise to grow.
By nurturing our curiosity, we can enhance our capacity to rise above ourselves both as individuals and professionals. Research has shown that curious professionals tend to make more money, progress faster in their careers, and find greater happiness in life.
They also excel at maintaining relationships, learn more quickly, are more open to change, and possess a deeper self-awareness.
In the professional realm, curiosity plays a crucial role. Curious individuals are not only more adaptable but also better equipped to navigate the complexities of the modern workplace. They embrace new challenges, seek out learning opportunities, and are more innovative in their approach to problem-solving.
This mindset leads to increased job satisfaction and a more dynamic career trajectory. Additionally, curious professionals foster more meaningful relationships with colleagues and clients, which can significantly enhance their professional network and opportunities for advancement.
This interactive session will delve into the concept of curiosity, examining its importance in our professional lives. Participants will explore various strategies to cultivate and strengthen their curiosity, enabling them to harness its benefits for personal and career growth.
Through engaging discussions and practical exercises, attendees will learn how to maintain and enhance their innate curiosity, leading to a more fulfilling and successful professional journey. Join us to discover how you can leverage curiosity to achieve greater success and satisfaction in your career and life.
From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.
Thanks you a lott!! So inspirational
Thank you so much for the session.
It’s awesome
There were soo many interesting topics, stories, facts, test results
Love the class, super interesting - I felt it was very engaging!
No prior knowledge is assumed. It is built for a general working audience, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction. What the hour itself covers: Every person is born with a healthy dose of curiosity. Some people can maintain this level through adulthood, many however see its original strength diminish over time.
A workshop. The description of this session says so itself: the hour includes exercises and activities that participants do, not only an expert speaking. It still runs live and online, for as many colleagues as you want to invite.
Stefaan van Hooydonk is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.1 out of 5, across 51 responses, and rate Stefaan personally 4.3 out of 5.
It is interactive, and the block higher up on this page says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.
It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Stefaan, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.
A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.
The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.
No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.
We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.
This one is live only. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.
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