Coaching practices for I've Got Talented People but I Keep Slotting Them in by Whoever's Free or Whatever Their Title Says and I Can Feel Their Real Gifts Going to Waste I'm Not Putting Anyone in the Spot Where the Thing They're Brilliant at Actually Matters

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• I’ve got talented people but I keep slotting them in by whoever’s free or whatever their title says, and I can feel their real gifts going to waste
• 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 end every week technically slammed but motivationally empty
• When I finally do hand something off, it’s always the dull scraps I don’t want, and I cling to everything interesting
• My team keeps dropping the ball at the same stage every single project

Practices that may help

1. 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
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. 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)
4. Match the task to the person
   Delegate based on the fit between the task’s demands and the person’s skill, growth needs, and capacity.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
5. 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)
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. Use delegation as a development tool
   Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
   The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation
8. 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)
9. Manage energy, not time
   Treat your capacity, not your calendar, as the scarce resource to protect.
   The Power of Full Engagement, Made Practical
10. Assess readiness task by task, not person by person
    Rate competence and commitment for the specific task in front of them, not the person overall.
    Situational Leadership, Made Practical

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