The Working Genius Podcast with Patrick Lencioni

This podcast discusses the importance of making the right first hire for a business and emphasizes the concept of finding someone who complements the skills and abilities of the team. They explore the significance of recognizing one's own working geniuses when making hiring decisions and discuss the importance of hiring based on the leader's gaps and pain points. They also highlight the importance of knowing your working genius for starting a successful business and hiring for core values to build a strong company culture.

Exploring the connection between understanding someone's working genius and forgiveness, the hosts delve into the fundamental attribution error and share a personal story exemplifying how the framework resolved tension and enabled forgiveness. Discussing the distinction between mercy and forgiveness, they highlight the importance of knowing each other's working genius in relationships to enhance understanding and communication. They explore the concept of effective listening and the negative impact of lacking self-awareness on frustrating others, emphasizing the importance of understanding frustrations, apologizing when necessary, and using a specific assessment to explain intentions to others.

Learn how advertising your frustrations with your team can build trust and make your job easier. The importance of understanding and owning frustrations and the impact it has on clarity and joy. Addressing challenges of individuals with disliked tasks and finding alternative solutions. Building trust through self-awareness and discernment. Exploring the relationship between working geniuses and frustrations.

This podcast explores the impact of a leader's genius on team dynamics and highlights the importance of self-awareness. It discusses strategies for utilizing a leader's strengths while acknowledging their limitations. The podcast also emphasizes the value of recognizing and appreciating the different working geniuses of team members. Additionally, it introduces a fast track certification program for becoming an expert in using the working genius framework.

Explore the challenges of working out of order and the importance of self-awareness and communication. Learn how each genius can still be an asset in every stage of the work process. Discover the significance of vulnerability and trust in building a strong team dynamic. Gain insights into the certification program for learning how to leverage working genius.

This podcast explores the impact of the order of our Working Geniuses on the way we work. It delves into the concept of working genius and how it relates to individual joy and energy in work. The importance of utilizing 'invention first' and 'discernment first' geniuses in different situations is also discussed, as well as the significance of finding a balance between utilizing dominant strengths and incorporating other strengths. The value of vulnerability in building trust within teams is highlighted, along with the importance of embracing wonder in working genius.

Exploring teaching with different genius pairings, leveraging strengths in teaching, matching teaching styles to working genius, using wonder as a teaching strategy, the importance of self-awareness in teaching and leadership

Don't just do something, stand there.  This week, Pat, Cody, Beau and Tracy discuss the importance of patience as it relates to how we use our Geniuses.     Six Types of Working Genius Book Discussion Guide: https://tinyurl.com/BookDiscussionGuide Working Genius Team Application Guide:  https://www.workinggenius.com/teamapplicationguide   Become a Working Genius Certified Facilitator:  https://www.workinggenius.com/client/certification/  Listen to the At the Table Podcast: tinyurl.com/atthetablepodcast

If only there was a way to analyze different types of people in a consistent, contained, high-pressure environment where they have to work through problems as a team.  This week, Pat, Cody and Beau explore what each Genius type brings to an escape room.     To listen to the At the Table Podcast: tinyurl.com/atthetablepodcast   To take the Six Types of Working Genius Assessment: https://www.workinggenius.com/

What connections can be drawn between the Working Genius and the MBTI?  This week, the team talks about introversion and extraversion, and how they interact with our Working Genius results.     To listen to the At the Table Podcast: tinyurl.com/atthetablepodcast