Could the discovery experience of travel, work at work
Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 7:14AM 
The promises and rewards of travel are many : exploration, discovery, insight, learning, life-changing experiences. We are invited to show up, not knowing much about a country or culture, encouraged to tour, learn, listen, sample, test and experience.
Could more leaders in more businesses encourage the joys of discovery at work, like travel does for us?
Are there fears that all that discovering will take/waste a lot of time?
That it won’t really deliver any benefits?
Or that it isn’t needed: at work we just do what we do, same as yesterday, last week or last year.
Newer ways of thinking and working include doing things like deliberate discovery. It’s invited, welcomed and expected. I’m not suggesting it switches to all, full-on discovery, 100% of the time. It’s not an all or nothing thing.
It’s about some. Allowing some time for discovery. Some budget. Some opportunity. Some guidance or coaching so that your team knows how to discover, explore and unearth.
Otherwise, one day you’ll wonder where all the good people went to, why they left. They’ll go where there are opportunities for a better ‘adventure’.
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