Decode team strengths and lead smarter
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
When leaders want teams to operate in their strengths, engage faster with less friction, and avoid burnout, the Working Genius Leadership Lab becomes one of the most practical and high-impact experiences they can invest in! In this workshop, we give leaders a clear, actionable framework for aligning people with the work they’re naturally wired to do—resulting in higher engagement, tighter collaboration, clearer communication and dramatically improved execution.
The Working Genius Leadership Lab provides leaders with a productivity-focused assessment that identifies the natural gifts people bring to work. Unlike personality tools such as DiSC or Myers-Briggs, Working Genius maps the six stages of work and shows where individuals and teams thrive or find themselves struggling. Through a Team Mapping exercise, it helps to create a common language across teams, recognizing and leveraging each other’s strengths. This workshop helps leaders put the right people in the right roles at the right time—so people thrive while execution and results accelerate.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
- People leaders
- Leadership Teams or leaders collaborating across X-functional teams.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:
- How to identify and understand their own Working Genius profile
- Leaders gain clarity on the types of work that energize them, drain them, and shape their natural leadership style.
- How to improve cross-functional collaboration
- They gain a shared language that reduces conflict and improves collaboration between departments.
- How to diagnose team friction and stalled projects
- They learn to spot where work is breaking down and why, using a simple, repeatable framework.
- How to delegate based on strengths rather than availability and build more balanced teams
- Leaders discover how to delegate with precision, identify gaps, overloads, and blind spots in team composition.
- How to communicate more clearly and intentionally
- Leaders understand how different geniuses process information and make decisions, resulting in more effective meetings, written and verbal communications.
COURSE OUTLINE
Welcome & Introduction (30 Mins)
- Overview of Workshop Goals
- Introduce the Working Genius Framework
- Team Warm Up Activity
- What work energizes you and what feels draining?
- What do you think your Superpower is? Why?
- Understanding working styles and why they matter
Understanding The 6 Types of Working Genius (40 Mins)
- Deep Dive into each Genius
- Examples of each Genius in Action
- Group Discussion: Which Geniuses can you see on your team?
Individual & Group Assessment Review (60 Mins)
- Participants Review their personal results
- Reflection Prompts:
- What resonates?
- What surprised you?
- What explains past frustrations?
- Small Working Groups – Discussion of personal results
Team Mapping Exercise (45 Mins)
- Plot team members’ geniuses on a shared visual map
- Identify Strength Clusters
- Genius Gaps
- Overloaded Geniuses
- Discuss how this affects:
- Meetings
- Communications
- Projects and workflows
- Decision Making
- Burnout
Applying Working Genius to Real Work (45 Mins)
- Break Out Groups
- Apply the model to a Current Project (W-I-D-G-E-T)
- Identify where the work gets stuck
- What geniuses are missing?
- Realignment of work or tasks for better flow
Action Planning (60 Mins)
- Each participant creates a personal “Genuis Alignment Plan”
- Specific adjustments they can make to their role, workflow or habits
- Conversations they may need to have with their leader or team
- Tasks they want to lean into and tasks they may want to delegate or reassign
- Team creates a “Team Genius Workflow Agreement” – Team Operating System
- Who will own each stage of work? (6 stages)
- Aligning natural strengths and identification of gaps
- Meeting structure – alignment, handoffs, supporting and leveraging geniuses
- Making Changes
- Redesigning workflow bottlenecks
- Delegation planning
- Adjusting meeting roles
- Reassigning tasks to align to geniuses
Key Reflections and Closing (15 Mins)
- Key Takeaways
- Next Steps for continued team development
- Q&A
METHODS TO BE USED
This Leadership Lab uses a high-engagement, experiential learning methodology that blends self-reflection, team dialogue, real-world application, and structured facilitation. Its action-oriented, designed to help leaders understand themselves, understand their teams, and immediately improve team dynamics, culture and execution.
The 6 Working Geniuses Leadership Lab uses a suite of interactive learning tools—including personalized assessments, visual team-mapping charts, workflow models, role-alignment matrices, and real-world application templates—that help leaders clearly see their strengths, understand team dynamics, and immediately apply the Working Genius framework to improve collaboration and execution.
Pre-work: Completion of the Personal Assessment at www.workinggenius.com