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WORKING GENIUS ASSESSMENT  & TEAM WORKSHOP
 

The Six Types of Working Genius is a practical assessment and team development model that helps individuals understand the work that energizes them, the activities that drain them, and how their natural strengths contribute to team effectiveness.

 

Developed by Patrick Lencioni and The Table Group, Working Genius provides a common language for improving collaboration, aligning responsibilities, reducing workplace frustration, and helping teams move work from ideas to execution.
 

 

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​What is Working Genius?​

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Every individual has different natural strengths when it comes to getting work done. Some people thrive on generating ideas, others on evaluating possibilities, mobilizing people, supporting implementation, or ensuring results.


The Working Genius assessment identifies three important aspects of how people experience work:

  • Two Working Geniuses: Activities that come naturally and provide energy and fulfillment.

  • Two Working Competencies: Activities individuals can perform effectively but that may not be particularly energizing.

  • Two Working Frustrations: Activities that tend to drain energy and create frustration, even when someone is capable of performing them.

 

The assessment takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and provides practical insights individuals and teams can begin applying immediately.​

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Wonder

Discernment

Enablement

Invention

Galvanizing

Tenacity

Understand How People Work Best. Strengthen How Teams Work Together.

  • Wonder — Recognizing opportunities, questioning the status quo, and identifying what could be improved.

  • Invention — Generating creative ideas and developing solutions to challenges.

  • Discernment — Evaluating ideas, exercising judgment, and determining what is likely to work.

  • Galvanizing — Inspiring others, building enthusiasm, and moving people toward action.

  • Enablement — Providing the support, assistance, and cooperation needed to move work forward.

  • Tenacity — Driving execution, maintaining accountability, and ensuring work reaches completion.

​All six types contribute to successful work. The objective is not to have everyone excel at everything, but to understand how individual contributions complement one another.

How Working Genius Can Strengthen Your Organization

Improve Team Collaboration

Help team members understand one another's contributions, recognize complementary strengths, and reduce misunderstandings about how work gets accomplished.

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Align Responsibilities with Natural Strengths

Identify opportunities to better match work assignments and team responsibilities with activities that energize individuals.

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Strengthen Team Productivity

Understand where teams may have gaps or imbalances across the stages of ideation, activation, and implementation.

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Make Meetings More Effective

Clarify whether meetings are intended to generate ideas, evaluate options, build commitment, or coordinate execution—and involve the right contributors.

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Reduce Frustration and Improve Engagement

Help employees and leaders recognize why certain responsibilities are energizing while others may contribute to frustration or fatigue.

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Support Leadership and Team Development

Give leaders a practical framework for understanding team dynamics, delegating responsibilities, and improving how work gets done.

Working Genius Solutions from Talent Authority

Understanding assessment results is valuable. Applying those insights to everyday work is where the greatest opportunity lies.


Talent Authority offers several ways to incorporate Working Genius into individual and organizational development.
 

Individual Assessment
Discover your Working Geniuses, Competencies, and Frustrations through the online assessment and personalized results.
 

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Assessment with Individual Coaching
Explore your results with a Talent Authority consultant and identify practical applications for your role, responsibilities, collaboration, and professional development.


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Team Workshops and Team Building
Bring Working Genius to your leadership team, department, or work group through a facilitated development experience. Participants explore their individual results, examine collective strengths and gaps, and identify opportunities to improve collaboration, role alignment, and execution.

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Help Your Team Work Better Together

Does your team have great ideas but struggle with execution? Are responsibilities misaligned with people's strengths? Do meetings generate discussion without producing clear action?

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Working Genius can provide a useful starting point for understanding these challenges and identifying practical improvements.

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Let's explore how Talent Authority your work group, team or department work more effectively.

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