My long-time mentor and friend Lynn Rogala introduced me to the Working Genius Assessment. It is a model created by Patrick Lencioni, author of the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. The assessment gives you insight about your working genius types and help you understand what activities give you joy and fulfillment. The model also tells you about your weaknesses and what drains your energy or frustrates you.
When you share your Working Genius Assessment results with the people you work with, and they share their results with you, you get more value from the assessment. The model is designed to help people learn how to work better with one another. The types of Working Geniuses represents the different activities done by teams to accomplish an objective, from start to finish.
I have the Woking Geniuses of Galvanizing and Tenacity.
- Galvanizing – The natural gift of rallying, inspiring and organizing others to take action.
- Tenacity – The natural gift of pushing projects or tasks to completion to achieve results.
At work I have earned the reputation of being the “Jiminy Cricket” of the organization, making sure we are staying true to our objectives and following through with what we said we are going to do. Other times people say I am a trickster and trouble-maker, like Loki, asking tough questions or making trouble to get people to do something or rally them to new ways of doing work.
You can learn more about the model here – https://www.workinggenius.com.
If you are wanting to take the assessment, Lynn is a Certified Working Genius Assessment Facilitator and you can book an appointment with her using this link. If you want to know more about Lynn, here is her LinkedIn profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnrogala/. Please note that I am not getting any commission for this. I am putting my Working Genius of Galvanizing in action and just sharing something I have found to be helpful.