High-performance is within you
The world’s best leaders know that mindset matters. They understand that to deliver high-performance, they need to think with high-performance. This starts by getting curious.
An equation that codifies curiosity
We have developed The Curiositas Method to coach high-performance leadership. It has three essential components, all of which are at heart of everything we do.
Curiosity
Contextual Awareness
Challenging the context you currently operate from, uncovering what beliefs and biases are holding you back. Giving you the freedom to be curious.
Mindful Presence
Using mindfulness to help you pay more attention to the present moment – your thoughts, ideas and the people, world and opportunities around you.
Transformational Commitment
Turning curiosity into action takes commitment. But not just any type of commitment, this is commitment to achieve a vision of something in the face of uncertainty, ambiguity and not knowing all the answers. Transformational commitment takes leaders that are agile, comfortable with emergence and breaking-free of rigid long-term plans.
Leading Curiosity
The performance-productivity paradox
Does a highly productive leader equal a highly performing leader? Not necessarily. Through many years supporting countless executives we’ve seen it time and time again; leaders seeking coaching to deliver the very best performance of their careers. But prior to receiving coaching, what they’ve often been in relentless pursuit of is becoming simply “more productive”. It’s an easy situation to find ourselves in. Even as we make our earliest entry into the workplace, good time management and technical competencies are lauded as critical and essential capabilities.
Productivity
Curiosity
Performance
Diminishing curiosity. Diminishing performance
There comes a point where our desire to derive maximum efficiency from our time and effort, inadvertently leaves us with a strategy based simply on working faster, harder, and for longer. This edges away at our capacity for curiosity, and as a result, eventually, so does it edge away at our performance. Because curiosity isn’t a nice to have, it’s THE essential ingredient for long term performance.
If we’re curious, we’re more present; present to our people and teams, present to our own ideas, present to the real needs of our organisations, present to the world and all its opportunities. If we’re curious, we’re able to challenge our thinking and the status-quo, which gives rise to innovation, flexibility, agility, emotional intelligence and transformation. And if we’re curious, we’re able to make giant leaps in developing ourselves as leaders. Because curiosity means learning and growing in a way that we’re always moving forwards, not relying on trying to repeat past successes.
“Diane coached me through my transition from board director at a law firm to re-starting my own coaching business. Her help has been invaluable to me. Diane’s style is a mixture of powerfully challenging, inspiringly creative and insightfully curious. She is also extremely practical and as a coach myself it has been useful to call on her as a mentor.”
