Coaching practices for Working Genius Onboarding

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Working Genius Onboarding, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

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

Practices that may help

1. 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)
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. 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.
4. 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)
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. 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)
7. 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)
8. 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
9. Sequence creative tasks before reactive tasks each day
   Do generative (creating) work before reactive (responding) work — never the other way around.
   Task Batching: Grouping Similar Work to Cut Switching Costs
10. Use a body double for low-initiation tasks
    Work in the physical or virtual presence of another person to borrow their initiation momentum.
    Task Initiation: Overcoming the Start Problem

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