Coaching practices for Find Your Working Genius

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• We decide things by group vote and the loud idea-lovers always carry the room, while the one person whose gut is usually right about what won’t work gets drowned out
• I keep dragging the big-picture dreamers into the tedious finishing work and asking my finishers to brainstorm wild ideas, and everyone’s miserable and the handoffs are a mess
• There’s a part of my work that quietly wrecks me, but admitting it feels like confessing I’m not good enough, so I just grit my teeth and say nothing
• I end every week technically slammed but motivationally empty
• I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog

Practices that may help

1. The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
   Patrick Lencioni’s Working Genius model describes six activities — Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement, and Tenacity — that are required to complete any meaningful work. Each person finds two of these energizing (geniuses), two draining (frustrations), and two neutral (competencies). The model is a practitioner framework; it lacks independent peer-reviewed validation, but it provides a practically useful vocabulary for team role awareness.
2. Route decisions to your Discernment genius
   Evaluation decisions drain Wonder and Tenacity geniuses — protect your evaluators and route decisions to them.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
3. Assign project phases to genius-matched people
   Route early ideation to Wonder/Invention geniuses and execution phases to Tenacity geniuses.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
4. Name frustrations without shame
   Frustrations are not weaknesses — they’re a mismatch signal that the team can act on.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
5. Protect time for work that matches your genius
   Deliberately schedule blocks of genius-type work before filling the rest of the week.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
6. Use genius mapping in onboarding
   Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
7. Map your team’s genius coverage
   Check whether all six activities are covered by someone who finds them energizing.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
8. Identify your two working geniuses
   Name the two of the six activities that consistently energize you, not just where you perform well.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
9. Become a talent magnet: attract and deploy people at their best
   Multipliers find what people do naturally well and put them in conditions where that genius is essential.
   Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
10. Quantity first: generate the most ideas possible before evaluating any
    The best way to have a good idea is to have many ideas — originality rises with volume, so generate recklessly before selecting.
    The Beginner’s Mind in Creative Practice

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