Working Genius presentation

The 6 Types of Working Genius

Unleashing our genius as individuals and a team

Katie Gaebel, Ph.D.

• What energy are you bringing?
• What intentions do you have for today?

The Vegas Rule - amended.

1. Does this need to be said? 2. Does this need to be said by me? 3. Does this need to be said by me, now?

Engagement Guidelines

You may not use your Working Genius as a weapon or a crutch.

"Trust is choosing to make something important to you vulnerable to the actions of someone else." - B. Brown

Ask yourself:

1. What (am I hearing) 2. So what (does this mean to me/us?) 3. Now what (do we do with this?)

Listen for understanding.

Value the relationship first.

"What can I do to show I value the relationship without compromising the intent of the communication?"

Co-create safe space for all forms of active participation.

Understand ourselvesUnderstand others

SWOT

Analyze Marketing Team strengths, weakenesses, opportunities, threats

How this looks in real time

Apply to Marketing Team for actionable and intentional takeaways

• I know our team is valued when...
• I feel our team is undervalued when...
• I wish cfm understood...
• If our team had more time, it would be cool to...
• I know I am valued when...

I want you to go celebrate others' geniuses....pour into somebody and shine the light on their gifts. Then do something humbling and shine the light on your frustrations as a relief! It will raise people up and erase your guilt. Let's celebrate people and lean more into our geniuses.

Patrick Lencioni

Assumptions and Acknowledgments

• Working genius is about what type of work we naturally gain energy from or are naturally drained of energy by
• They are ALL needed to make an effective team
• It is not connected to skill or ability to do a certain type of work; many people have refined skills in their working frustrations
• Everyone has to work in their areas of working frustrations - it's about identifying those areas and balancing it with time in your working genius
• No matter how hard we try, we will always have areas of working frustration - no one can be a genius in all six areas!

Part One: Understanding the Working Genius

Invention

Wonder

Motto: Let's figure it out

Motto: Let's think about it

Natural gift of creating novel and new ideas, coming up with a plan or solution, or porposing a new idea. "I have an idea!" "How does this plan sound?" "What if we helped customers like this?"

Natural gift of asking a big question, pondering the possibility of greater potential, raising a red flag, or speculating about the state of things. "Is there a better way?" "Is this the best company we can be?" "Does anyone else feel like something is wrong with the way we deal with customers?"

Galvanizing

Discernment

Motto: Let's do this, or let's not do this .

Motto: Let's move forward.

The natural gift of rallying people around the vetted and worthwhile idea - enlists people to help implement or inspires them to embrace it. "Hey everyone, listen to her idea!" "Let's all rally around these values." "Who's ready to make the customer service program work?"

The natural gift of responding to and evaluating the ideas that come from Invention by assessing the proposal, tweaking the approach. "My gut tells me that would be a great idea." "I have a strong feeling that something's not quite right about those values." "I think we need to tweak your product idea more before it's ready."

Tenacity

Enablement

Motto: Let's complete this project.

Motto: Let me help you get things done.

The natural gift of answering the call to action, providing encouragement and assistance for an idea or project - make themselves available, agree to do what's needed to get project off the ground. "I'm on board to help with that idea." "Count me in with those values." "I'd love to help with customers; let me know when you need me."

The natural gift of completing the project, finishing the program, pushing through obstacles to ensure that the work is done to specification. "Let's keep pushing because this new idea isn't a reality yet." "Okay, let's wrap this up and lock in on the values so we can send them to the board for approval by tonight's deadline."

Invention Gap

Wonder Gap

Motto: Let's figure it out

Motto: Let's think about it

Teams start to feel a bit crazy because they know their old ways of doing things aren't working, but they are stuck trying the same thing again and again.

Can lead to a team failing to take time to step back and ponder what's going on around them. Cultural issues, market opportunities, and looming problems might get overlooked in pursuit of more pressing things.

Discernment Gap

Galvanizing Gap

Motto: Let's do this, or let's not do this .

Motto: Let's move forward.

One of the most observable geniuses. When no one is rallying the troops or provoking action, even great ideas don't come to fruition, and the team's potential remains untapped.

A big problem and hard to notice - hard to recognize or prove discernment. When lacking, teams over-rely on data and models to make decisions that are best made using simple judgment.

Tenacity Gap

Enablement Gap

Motto: Let's complete this project.

Motto: Let me help you get things done.

Obvious problem, but often overlooked since people often fail to see Enablement as a genius at all. There is a sense that no one is pitching in to help, and that no one is responding to the galvanizer. Enablement can be seen as the glue on a team. If it's lacking, success is unlikely.

When lacking tenacity, teams start programs and projects but never see them through to completion. No one is jumping over hurdles and pushes through obstacles during the critical later stages of work.

Part Two: Apply Working Genius to Team Analysis

Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

Strengths

Let's talk about turbulence

Let's talk about turbulence: meetings and projects

• Where do you spend most of your work?
• Where do you spend most of your team meetings?

Brainstorming

Decision Making

Launch

Status Review and Problem Solving

Let's talk about turbulence: Meetings and projects

Who's piloting?

Brainstorm (W, I, D)

Decision Making (D, I, G)

Launch (G, E, D)

Status Review + Problem Solving (G, E, T)

Part Three: Create New Approaches

• What are ways you can structure meetings and projects to tap into
• Kaitlin's gifts?
• Kellie's gifts?
• Jen's gifts?
• The Marketing Team lacks the Genius of Wonder. How can the team ensure ideas and initiatives are properly vetted before starting to implement?
• What are ways to mitigate turbulence in project and meetings?
• How can your team define who should be piloting and when?

• Structure marketing meetings with levels (brainstorm, decision making, launch, status review + problem solving).
• parking lot all ideas that fall out of the scope of that meeting
• Create a visible spot in the Marketing office to display team rocks. Have post it notes aligned with the different levels of projects so team can write down ideas and assign them to proper levels/parking lot ideas
• Brainstorm (WID)
• Decision making (DIG)
• Launch (GED)
• Status Review + Problem Solving (GET)

You got this!

I want you to go celebrate others' geniuses....pour into somebody and shine the light on their gifts. Then do something humbling and shine the light on your frustrations as a relief! It will raise people up and erase your guilt. Let's celebrate people and lean more into our geniuses.

Patrick Lencioni