Perspective Seeking

Workshop

Learn how to uncover assumptions, explore different viewpoints, and align faster, so you can collaborate more effectively across teams.

90% satisfaction

This workshop includes

Team members and cross-functional partners look at the same problem through very different lenses. The result:

Perspective gaps create unclear priorities, stalled decisions, and missed deadlines
Assumption-laden communication triggers costly rework and misfires
Polite “false harmony” buries healthy friction, slowing innovation and eroding trust

Cost to the business?

When people aren’t aligned on what matters, progress stalls, teams spin their wheels, ideas get dismissed, and critical insights get missed. This leads to wasted time, rework, and a lack of momentum.

What's missing?

A way to step back, ask better questions, and explore problems through multiple lenses.

In short, the ability to gather diverse perspectives before jumping into action.

Audience

Company-wide

Length

90 minutes

Cohort size

Price

Starting at $7,500

About this workshop

Participants will learn how to ask better questions, uncover assumptions, and explore what matters to others. They will walk away with a practical tool to turn curiosity into clarity, enabling faster alignment and more effective collaboration across teams.

Skills you'll improve

Agenda

1 - Perspective Matters

Fast hook to show how perspective gaps drain results

A clip or case study that reveals how easily misalignment can happen when we assume others see things the same way.

2 - Shift the Lens

Surface the why behind your selective attention

Through a simple visual exercise, you’ll uncover how your attention and assumptions shape the way you see problems. You’ll start to notice what you may be overlooking and why slowing down to surface different perspectives leads to better collaboration.

3 - Narrative Dialogue

Learn the Narrative Dialogue questioning tool

We introduce a tool that helps you stay curious, ask better questions, and dig into what really matters to others. It’s a simple, repeatable way to make sense of complexity through conversation.

4 - Real-World Practice

Put Narrative Dialogue into action

You’ll pair up and use the tool to uncover the deeper “why” behind your partner’s hobby, practicing how to ask open, non-leading questions that surface what really matters to them. Then, you’ll shift gears and apply the same approach to a real-world challenge, gaining new insight through their perspective.

5- Reflect & Commit

Group debrief and personal action commitments

90% satisfaction

What Participants Are Saying

“In navigating a tricky situation with an xfn partner, I used Narrative Dialogue to understand where she was coming from and develop a solution to best meet everyone's needs.”

Eliza Worcester

Senior Product Marketing Manager

“I enjoyed learning the Whole Brain Model - it will sharpen the way I engage with different stakeholders and how I position my communication strategy.”

Jessica Rose

L&D Associate

“I worked on a proposal through each workshop and it's helped me to shape the insights and recommendations using to the frameworks we learned.”

Brooklyn Brown

Staff Product Designer

“I've adapted the How/What framework to better coach my team and guide them through problem-solving in more productive ways.”

Stephanie Smith

Customer Success Partner

"I found this to be a very valuable course, and Andrew was fantastic.”

Sara Beatty

Senior Product Marketing Manager

“I'm constantly using soundbites when communicating with my core leadership audience: What do you NEED to know and by when in order to do what?”

Sara Becker

Senior Product Manager

"I learned useful ways to communicate more effectively by understanding your audience and using more structured thinking."

Qi Gao

Senior Data Scientist

“I found the points around sparking curiosity interesting. Getting engagement on documentation can be a challenge since people's attention is pulled in so many different ways.”

James Oliver

Senior Engineer

"I knew what MECE stood for, but I fully grasped how the concept was useful when presenting to a group that might not know as much about something as I do."

Dylan Schwarz

Marketing Analytics Senior Associate

The Curious Lion Experience

Zoom like you’ve never seen

Not your ordinary Zoom call

We combine storytelling, music, energizers, breakouts, and hands-on learning to create an unforgettable virtual experience.

Learn from peers across functions

Cross-functional learning provides context

The best learning happens when ideas are filtered through the unique context of those we work with. Our programs all follow our framework for Cohort Learning Experiences.

Get real work done

A structured process for solving problems

We provide hands-on coaching while your people apply our thinking tools to their actual work to ship during the cohort.

Drive business outcomes

Align learning to your business strategy

With a team of strategy consultants and learning consultants working hand-in-hand, we are able to create learning products that drive real business outcomes (and measure this).

Meet Your
Instructor

Andrew is an expert in learning and development, serving in executive roles at global organizations like KPMG. As the founder of Curious Lion, Andrew and his team have developed 1,000s of leaders at clients like Workday, Pinterest, IMG, and USAA, winning numerous awards for their engaging learning experiences.

Kenny is the Domain Manager for the Web Development Domain at Codecademy. He contributed to a wide range of courses and paths at Codecademy, including JavaScript, Bootstrap, Handlebars, Phaser.js, Go, Swift, TypeScript, and Lua.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this virtual?

The program is built to be virtual first, delivering a Zoom experience like you’ve never experienced before. But individual sessions can be delivered in person.

Can this be tailored?

All our programs have a minimum level of customization by our team of strategy and learning consultants. We can discuss deeper customization in our discovery calls.

What audience is this best for?

We see the most success with a cross-functional audience of experienced individual contributors transitioning to leadership and new leaders.

Why the focus on problem-solving?

The core challenge of leadership is not having all the answers. It’s having the right questions. This mindset is at the heart of problem-solving. We teach new and aspiring leaders how to synthesize multiple perspectives into a strategic narrative and communicate clearly to diverse stakeholders.