Coaching practices for The 6 Types of Working Genius Patrick Lencioni When Starting Out

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• 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
• I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
• My team keeps dropping the ball at the same stage every single project
• 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
• 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

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. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. 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)
9. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
   Patrick Lencioni’s model describes five compounding failures that undermine teams: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results — each built on the one below. It is a practitioner framework presented as a business fable, not an empirically tested model, but its five dimensions align well with decades of team effectiveness research, making it a useful diagnostic even without controlled-trial support.
10. Apply the 80/20 principle to ongoing commitments
    Identify the 20% of your commitments producing 80% of your results and protect them; cut or delegate the rest.
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