What is workplace curiosity?
Workplace curiosity is the tendency to seek new information and experiences, explore gaps in understanding, and remain engaged with uncertainty long enough to learn.
Explore how readily you seek useful questions, tolerate uncertainty, and turn exploration into better work.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does workplace curiosity mean?
Workplace curiosity is the tendency to seek new information and experiences, explore gaps in understanding, and remain engaged with uncertainty long enough to learn.
Why it matters at work
Curiosity supports learning and discovery, but useful curiosity is not endless novelty. Leaders need to ask better questions, approach unfamiliar evidence, and connect exploration to a real decision or problem.
What this assessment measures
Questioning & gaps
Noticing what is unknown and forming questions that can change understanding.
Exploration & stretch
Approaching unfamiliar ideas and tolerating the discomfort of not knowing.
Learning application
Turning new information into a revised model, experiment, or decision.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your workplace curiosity foundation
Your answers point to a few situations where a small, visible routine could make this capability more dependable.
A developing workplace curiosity pattern
You use this capability in some situations. Strengthen the dimension that becomes less reliable when pressure or ambiguity rises.
A strong workplace curiosity pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against harder work and evidence from real outcomes.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Todd B. Kashdan, Matthew W. Gallagher, Paul J. Silvia, Beate P. Winterstein, William E. Breen, Daniel Terhar, and Michael F. Steger (2009), “The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory-II: Development, Factor Structure, and Psychometrics”, Journal of Research in Personality.