[CTQ Smartcast] How To Build A Curiosity Calendar for Your Company

Miss those days of watercooler conversations and chance encounters in the hallway? They often led to moments of serendipity, curiosity, and innovation that could spark off the next big idea for your company. But as teams get distributed, it’s important to orchestrate curiosity and not leave it to chance. That’s where a deliberate calendar can help.

In this Smartcast, Sanasi Kelkar speaks with CTQ co-founder BV Harish Kumar about how you can use the idea of a Curiosity Calendar to spark curiosity. Think of it as carefully designed, smart edutainment to help an organisation grow inside-out.

Such Curiosity Calendars help teams get more curious, celebrate ‘curious cats’, and stumble on knowledge blindspots. These events help trigger conversations and ideas, so you don’t miss out on that Great Big Idea.

After listening to Harish, find out more about how to orchestrate a calendar of curiosity with CTQ’s Curiosity Cafe offering.

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Curiosity Calendar is a calendar of activities aimed at getting the employees of a team more curious and discover knowledge blindspots. These events also help in orchestrated serendipity to trigger conversations and ideas. This has become even more important in these days of distributed work as the so-called watercooler conversations and chance encounters are rare.

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Some of the things we spoke about

• What is a curiosity calendar?

• How to leave chance interactions in your company less to chance

• The awesome things you can plan with a Curiosity Calendar

• Some fun real-life examples of Curiosity Calendar events

• And the ultimate question: Don’t I risk employees leaving if they get more curious and interesting? (Spoiler Alert: You don’t.)

Choose To Thinq helps companies become deliberate, build culture and stay future relevant. For example, here’s CTQ’s tips on how to keep small teams engaged in a smart way.