What Is Your Working Genius? How to Avoid Frustration and Do the Work You Love

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Mark and Jesse discuss Patrick Lencioni's The 6 Types of Working Genius, a book exploring various personality types and the kinds of work most suitable to each. It's more than a personality test however! Lencioni's model assesses people according to their genius, competency, and frustrations in six areas:

• Wonder: The natural gift of pondering the possibility of greater potential and opportunity in a given situation
• Invention: The natural gift of creating original and novel ideas and solutions
• Discernment: The natural gift of intuitively and instinctively evaluating ideas and situations
• Galvanizing: The natural gift of rallying, inspiring and organizing others to take action
• Enablement: The natural gift of providing encouragement and assistance for an idea or project
• Tenacity: The natural gift of pushing projects or tasks to completion to achieve results

Mark and Jesse share the results of their assessments -- their areas of genius and their areas of frustration -- and how they have seen these things manifest in problems in their own businesses. They also discuss how understanding your genius and frustrations (notice the word frustration is employed, not weakness) helps to focus your efforts where you will be most impactful, and ultimately build better, more effective teams.

The 6 Types of Working Genius Assessment:

https://www.workinggenius.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0ruyBhDuARIsANSZ3wriydJmSn6fd5XTmzV-EF7jo6HeJf5swq4XvPmOtW7fzv2REGhNlcAaAt9oEALw_wcB

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