Coaching practices for Working Genius Team Map

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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
• 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
• I’ve got a new hire starting and the lazy move is to just hand them whatever’s piled up in the backlog
• I end every week technically slammed but motivationally empty

Practices that may help

1. 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)
2. 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.
3. 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)
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. 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)
6. 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)
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. Maker vs Manager Schedule
   Paul Graham’s framework distinguishes two fundamentally incompatible time structures: makers need long, uninterrupted blocks to produce creative or technical work, while managers run on hourly slots. Mixing meeting culture into a maker’s day destroys the sustained concentration that deep output requires.
10. Mental Representations: The Expert’s Internal Map
    Mental representations, as described by Anders Ericsson in "Peak," are the internal cognitive structures that experts use to plan, monitor, and self-correct their performance in real time. Unlike novices, who hold general knowledge, experts hold richly detailed domain-specific models that make their performance faster, more accurate, and more self-correcting. These representations are built through deliberate practice and they, in turn, make further practice more efficient.

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