COURSE WITH ALFONS CORNELLA
CURIOSITY
AS A NEW
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Learn how to use curiosity to improve innovation in your organization, and increase the well-being of your team.
100% ONLINE - 2nd Edition
January 22nd to February 22nd, 2024
Curiosity an advantage?
Innovation is already recognized as a critical function in business. A fast-paced environment, with new customer needs, new technology possibilities, competitors challenging our products and services, make innovation an essential response system to stay competitive. But innovation cannot exist in a company if the people in it are not curious.
Curiosity is becoming a new competitive advantage . Asking new questions, questioning how we have done things up to now, looking in new directions, learning new models, exploring external experiences, setting ourselves daring challenges, is becoming a critical skill in companies.
Curiosity is not something banal, although it seems that the first thing that comes to mind is that curiosity based only on surprise: "oh, how curious this is!". Curiosity is a structured process of searching for the new, for which our brain is particularly well prepared. Curiosity, personal and organizational, can be trained.
Curiosity allows discovering new paths, through "allowing" oneself to explore in new directions. Thus, curiosity is a very useful mechanism in the processes of creativity and innovation in a company. But curiosity also brings happiness to those who cultivate it. Wanting to explore with curious eyes, and being surprised by the new, brings well-being to individuals, and balance to teams.
The expression "you get old when you stop being curious" can be applied to both individuals and organizations.
In this course we will discover how curiosity can be used to improve the innovation process in an organization, as well as to increase the well-being of teams.
Frequent questions
Who is this course for?
The course is aimed at executives, managers, area managers, entrepreneurs or any other person interested in learning how to apply their curiosity to boost their professional development.
What if I don't consider myself a creative person?
This is not a problem. The participants are of very diverse profiles, not necessarily creative professionals, but they are also restless (unusual) people who want to learn about the possibilities of developing their curiosity at a personal and professional level.
Why a course on curiosity?
In the coming years, interest in curiosity will increase. In my opinion, the expected growth of the impact of artificial intelligence will have as one of its consequences an increased interest in those human capabilities that are difficult to replicate in a machine: imagination, intuition, improvisation, empathy, human touch, etc. And, above all, curiosity. It will not be possible to speak of innovation without speaking of curiosity.
How is the course structured?
Throughout the 4 to 6 weeks of the course you will work on the four units that make up the course. Each of them is full of learning that will make you think, reflect and reconsider aspects that will have a positive impact on your organization.
Each unit can be studied at any time and from anywhere, since it is accessible 24 hours a day through the INUSUAL club platform. The content is asynchronous, although you have a space in which to share your doubts, reflections and learning with other course participants.
After each unit, the course includes a live meeting with Alfons Cornella, which will be recorded for later consultation.
Will I have a coach?
This course does not include coaching services, but if you need it, you can contact us and explain your needs so that we can evaluate your specific case and propose something that can meet your needs.
What does this course offer me?
We will ask questions about what is known today about human curiosity: why are we curious, what is the relationship between curiosity and health (mental and general), what is a "good" question, what is the role of human curiosity in a world of intelligent machines? And many more questions, to which we will try to give answers.
What do I need to follow the course?
To follow the program you only need a browser with an internet connection. You can work from your computer and from any mobile device. The documents that accompany the study are available in PDF on the platform and we recommend that you download and print them, to increase the effectiveness of your learning. You can also re-watch the videos at any time, as you progress, as well as recordings of live sessions and interviews from the course.
What is the course agora?
In the exclusive course agora within the INUSUAL Club you will be able, if you wish, to share ideas, doubts, experiences and learning with the rest of the participants. We recommend that you do so. Sharing with other people reinforces and enriches your learning, facilitates your study and provides you with interesting contacts.
Most of your work will be personal and confidential, but the course is a collective experience. By participating, you become part of a group of professionals who are your fellow editors.
How much time will I have to dedicate to the study?
We recommend dedicating some time each day. Optimally, you should dedicate between 15-30 minutes per day. You should dedicate approximately two hours per week, with total flexibility, since, being a synchronous course, the study work can be done whenever you prefer.
Can I contact the author personally?
In this case, the course does not include time for individual consultations with Alfons Cornella, but you can post your questions and comments in the course agora and we will send them to him so that they can be dealt with in the live sessions.
How much time do I have access to the course?
You have a total of six months from the beginning of the course, so when you finish it, you can review anything you need. After this period, your access to the course expires, but you will still have your documents (including a book in pdf) and notes to consult whenever you want.
How is the course evaluation evaluated?
At the end of this course you will have a digital certificate based on Blockchain technology that you can incorporate in your Linkedin profile as part of your education. The course does not have any kind of exam or test to pass, the mere fact of taking part in it and finishing it, entitles you to this certificate of participation.
Can this course be subsidized?
Unfortunately, to date, we do not know of any subsidy that would make it worthwhile to manage the procedures for the little help that can be received. Hopefully someday these types of courses can receive subsidies that would allow them to reach more people.
Develop the curiosity of your team and organization
We will ask questions about what is known today about human curiosity: why are we curious, what is the relationship between curiosity and health (mental and general), what is a "good" question, what is the role of human curiosity in a world of intelligent machines? And many more questions, to which we will try to give answers.
In the coming years, interest in curiosity will increase. In our opinion, the expected growth of the impact of artificial intelligence will have as one of its consequences an increased interest in those human capacities that are difficult to replicate in a machine: imagination, intuition, improvisation, empathy, human touch, etc. And, above all, curiosity.
You cannot talk about innovation without talking about curiosity. If you are curious to better understand human curiosity, and want to better apply it in your organization, this is the course for you.
WEEK 1
- Presentation of the "Curiosity Atelier".
- What is curiosity?
- Newton's apple
- The triple "B
- Cabinets of curiosities
- Catalytic questions
- What makes a genius?
- Being curious is good for your health
- Significant people
- The curious energy of travel
- Curious humans in a world of intelligent machines
- The politics of curiosity
WEEK 2
- The spiral of the times
- The benefits of curiosity
- Want to measure how curious you are?
- Curiosity and Voorpret
- Curiosity and our daily life
- The beauty of restrictions
- Gedanken Experiment
- Unexpected discoveries
- Tinkering, thinking with your hands
- Frugal innovation
- Developing curiosity
- Spaces that nurture curiosity
WEEK 3
- Is curiosity an antidote to stress?
- Be a craftsman in what you do
- Questions for critical thinking
- Curiosity "I" and curiosity "D".
- Progress and the connection of ideas
- Curiosity and "doing nothing
- Stimulating curiosity in the classroom
- 5 Useful questions
- The theft of attention
- The eye literally sees differently
- Cognitive flexibility
- Lifelong learning
WEEK 4
- Teenagers becoming less and less curious?
- Napoleon's buttons and bananas
- The relevance of trying different things
- The two main dimensions of curiosity
- The role of obliquity
- Morbid curiosity Is there such a thing as bad curiosity?
- Curiosity and knowledge
- Stimulate curious teams
- A girl who asks herself questions
- Curiosity and intuition
- Curiosity in animals
- The power of questions
- Curious machines?
- Curiosity and the meaning of life
- Curiosity What have we learned?
100% Online, also
adaptable for companies in face-to-face mode.
This course is composed of four didactic units designed to be covered in an ideal time frame of four weeks and a maximum of six weeks. However, the content and pace of the course can be adapted to any type of organizational need.
Original Content
The material is designed, written and presented by Alfons Cornella. It is the result of his knowledge, readings, press articles, conferences and experiences in his consultancy Infonomia.
Live sessions
At the end of each unit, there will be a live session with Cornella. For one hour, he will answer questions, resolve doubts and converse with those who have pre-registered for the call.
Downloadable material
In addition to the videos presented by Alfons Cornella, he offers downloadable documents with schematic and complementary information to learn how to develop curiosity.
IS IDEAL FOR...
For Managers, at the individual level
It is ideal for people in charge of teams in organizations to serve as inspiration, guidance and discovery of the most appropriate way to apply curiosity in our lives.
In support of a corporate program
The course proposes strategic topics with a clear vocation to be addressed from the day to day of the organizations. It can be very useful as a support and learning context for leadership, innovation or organizational transformation programs.
For future leaders
This course is also ideal as a complement to the career plan of future leaders in organizations, as well as entrepreneurs or managers of small businesses who want to change their organization and do not yet have the resources or time necessary for larger projects.
Alfons Cornella
One of the most recognized consultants on Curiosity, Innovation and the Future of Organizations.
Author
A consultant for large companies in Spain, he has managed more than 100 projects on the creation of innovation culture and dynamization of innovation teams in different types of organizations, especially in the private sector.
Currently, his main activity as a consultant consists of helping to build and energize innovation teams in organizations.
He also dedicates part of his professional time to giving talks and workshops on innovation, technology, business transformation and education, among other topics, in which he personally shares his ideas and experiences with some 10,000 people a year.
The COURSE in figures
A magnificent and complete guide of tools to be able to identify your purpose and carry it through to the end by the path you set yourself and commit to. Know yourself, Improve yourself, Innovate, Lead, Inspire and also Rest. Be UNUSUAL.
"If you dare to challenge yourself and broadly understand what it is to be a leader in this day and age, this program is for you. This program is made for leaders who want to change the world and know that to do so they must change themselves first."
I have always followed him
The first time I received an email from Alfons was in 1995 when we had just founded the UOC and he was teaching at ESADE. His contribution is fundamental to better understand our current world, also in e-learning.
It is highly recommended to dedicate an afternoon to study and listen with interest to the studies you present on global trends, which have given me mental clarity, anticipation and security to make strategic decisions in the company.
I know Alfons through his books, which are a source of awesome creativity and knowledge. Thank you Alfons for giving us the gift of your wisdom. Without a doubt, Alfons is an expert in inspiring us and showing us powerful ideas that without him we would not see.
"If you dare to challenge yourself and broadly understand what it is to be a leader in this day and age, this program is for you. This program is made for leaders who want to change the world and know that to do so they must change themselves first."
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