This course examines how narratives shape curiosity in organizations and influence openness to change. Participants explore how everyday dialogue and informal stories affect learning, creativity, and adaptability, and how curiosity and polyphonic dialogue can support organizational transformation. Through theory insights, dialogue, and reflective exercises, the course provides tools for recognizing and leveraging narratives and curiosity in organizational contexts.

Syllabus

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, you will be able to:

Explain key forms of curiosity and assess their strategic relevance for learning, innovation, and performance in organizational settings.
Analyze how everyday dialogue, humor, and storytelling practices can either enable or constrain curiosity and creative thinking at work.
Evaluate the role of formal and informal organizational narratives in shaping employee sensemaking, engagement, and orientations toward change.
Apply dialogic strategies that foster psychological safety, trust, openness, and curiosity within teams and cross-functional interactions.

Content and Schedule

You can complete the course flexibly at your own pace. The content is delivered through videos, with quizzes to check your understanding and reflection tasks to support your learning. The reflection tasks also help you connect your learning to your own field or a context that interests you.

The course takes approximately 27 hours to complete and is equivalent to 1 ECTS. To finish the course and receive a certificate, you need to watch all videos, complete the quizzes with a minimum score of 75 percent, and complete the reflection assignments.

Couse Modules

Creativity
Curiosity, the Critical Force for Learning
The Paradoxical Nature of Curious Behaviour in Organizations
Constructing Spaces for Curiosity in Organizations
Playfulness and the Role of Attitude
Curiosity as Collective practice

For Whom?

This course is designed for individuals who want to understand how curiosity and narratives shape learning, creativity, and change in organizational contexts. It is particularly suitable for:

Professionals and practitioners who work in organizations and want to better understand how everyday dialogue, humor, and storytelling influence curiosity, learning, and creative thinking
Managers, team leaders, and change agents interested in fostering psychological safety, openness, and curiosity to support organizational development and transformation
Researchers, designers, and experts seeking deeper insight into organizational narratives, sensemaking, and the role of curiosity in enabling adaptive and resilient organizations

The course is suitable for participants from diverse organizational backgrounds and does not require prior knowledge of the topic.