The new Working Genius profiling tool, not surprisingly given its name, is about helping you to understand where your working genius lies.
I was listening to one of Dan Sullivan’s latest books, ‘Who not How’ & they shared a quote – “It’s not how many hours you spend doing what you live but how many hours you spend doing what you don’t love that matters”. Can’t remember who said that, but it resonated.
It’s because it’s this stuff that saps the energy out of you & makes your life a misery.
That’s why Dan says to find people (the Who) to do these things. Leaving you to focus on your genius or unique ability.
But first you need to know what your gifts are & then you need to make sure that you have a team that fills all the gaps.
Which is why this latest piece of work from Patrick Lencioni is so powerful – it helps you to understand what those gifts (Your working genius’) are.
“If you want to be successful and fulfilled in your work, you must tap into your gifts. That can’t happen if you don’t know what those gifts are.” –PATRICK LENCIONI, AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE SIX TYPES OF WORKING GENIUS
“Far too many people in the world suffer needlessly because they don’t understand their personal areas of working genius. As a result, they don’t do the kind of work that gives them joy and energy, and they end up in jobs and projects that are draining and demoralizing. This is a grave tragedy on two levels.
First, it leads those people to lose confidence in themselves and enthusiasm for life, which is devastating for them, their families and friends, and society as a whole. That alone is heart-breaking.
Second, organizations and teams–even families–that don’t tap into the true genius of their members can’t come close to realizing their potential. They are left puzzled by their inability to achieve their goals. This often leads them to make inaccurate and hurtful judgments about one another, and to feel unnecessarily guilty about their own shortcomings.
What makes all of this particularly tragic is that it is avoidable. The solution is for everyone–employees, managers, students and spouses–to identify their areas of working genius, as well as their areas of life-draining weakness, and to put themselves in a position to tap into their genius more and engage in their weakness less.
That is what this assessment is all about.”
Visit the website to undertake your assessment & if you’re up for it, get your team to do it too…
PS: Patrick is also speaking at the EOS conference for companies running on EOS, so if you get a chance I would highly recommend coming along, for that alone!
