“We saved 10x the cost of the workshop almost immediately.
We were going to lose one of our employees because the rest of the staff found it difficult to communicate with him. After the Working Genius Workshop our team re-thought how we communicated meaning this key staff member felt better engaged with the team and decided to continue on. Not only did we keep a valuable team member, we avoided the headache of engaging recruitment, hiring, training, and re-work” Team Leader post workshop reflection 2024
Companies that encourage their teams geniuses see 12% greater productivity.
Organisations that recognise their teams weaknesses and show value despite the vulnerability see 18% greater productivity.
The Working Genius
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Wonder
The natural gift of pondering the possibility of greater potential and opportunity in a given situation.
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Invention
The natural gift of creating original and novel ideas and solutions.
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Discernment
The natural gift of intuitively and instinctively evaluating ideas and situations.
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Galvanising
The natural gift of rallying, inspiring and organising others to take action.
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Enablement
The natural gift of providing encouragement and assistance for an idea or project.
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Tenacity
The natural gift of pushing projects or tasks to completion to achieve results.
Working Genius Overview
The 6 types of Working Genius offer a fresh approach for your team to uncover their innate talents, enhancing both personal and professional life. This model enables people to identify work that energises and fulfills them while avoiding tasks that cause frustration and setbacks. By gaining insights into their strengths, individuals can boost self-awareness, productivity, and success.
The Working Genius outlines six essential activities necessary for any kind of work, providing a straightforward framework for task completion. Many feel unfulfilled or misunderstood in their careers, and teams often face obstacles due to an inability to leverage collective talents. This model is reshaping perceptions about work and collaboration, leading to more dignified, satisfying, and successful work experiences.
The Working Genius Workshop is designed to help participants explore and apply their natural talents in a work setting. The experience begins with an online assessment, which provides insights into each participant's unique strengths and areas of genius.
Following the assessment, the workshop convenes in a four-hour, engaging, and interactive setting for up to 30 persons at a time. During this time, participants delve into their assessment results, gaining a deeper understanding of how their strengths can be leveraged in their roles.
Through a series of activities and discussions, attendees learn practical ways to apply their geniuses to their daily tasks. The workshop emphasises collaboration, allowing team members to discover complimentary strengths and enhance group productivity.
By the end of the session, participants leave with actionable strategies to apply their Working Genius, fostering a more energised, efficient, and fulfilling work environment.
Why do I use the Working Genius?
I choose to use the Working Genius model for several reasons:
1. Simplicity in a Chaotic World
In a world that is chaotic and busy, spending the next 9 months coming to understand your profile and your team’s profile is just undoable. We need more simplicity. The Working Genius is a tool that can be understood instantly and enables greater teamwork and understanding in minutes, making it incredibly practical for fast-paced environments.
2. Enhanced Team Understanding
The understanding this tool sparks between teammates is palpable. I have regularly witnessed leaps forward for teams as they come to understand and appreciate their differences, leading to stronger collaboration and greater productivity.
3. Designed for the Workplace
I love all the self-awareness tools. However all too often these tools are not linked back to the important work we want to enhance. The Working Genius is specifically designed for the workplace. It outlines the work process and how our unique personalities help us achieve this process. By creating greater self- and others-awareness, aligning individuals with tasks that play to their strengths and encouraging others-centered interaction the team becomes more unified, and productive
4. Language for greater Understanding
The Working Genius provides you with a Team language that enables you to:
communicate more effectively
It helps us place issues on the table in front of us, rather than causing personal attack
Better understanding of purpose of meetings
Better collaboration
A Workshop to Maximize Team Productivity and Fulfillment
I understand the importance of a productive and fulfilled team. That is why I love the Working Genius workshop. It is the fastest and easiest way to unlock your team's potential. This comprehensive training brings about greater self-awareness and empowers individuals and teams to work more efficiently and collaboratively. Through a mix of theoretical and practical exercises, your team will gain a deeper understanding of their unique working style and learn how it impacts their overall performance.
Benefits and Outcomes
Our workshop delivers a plethora of benefits that will transform your team dynamics and drive success:
1. Increased trust: By gaining insight into individual strengths and challenges, team members will develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for one another's abilities, leading to increased trust and collaboration within the team.
2. Reduced guilt and judgment: Understanding the unique working styles of team members eliminates feelings of guilt or judgment, creating a more supportive and inclusive work environment.
3. Identification of optimal tasks: Participants will uncover which tasks they excel at and feel energized by, allowing for better task allocation and ensuring that team members are working on projects they are truly passionate about.
4. Insight into role fit: The workshop provides a greater understanding of why some individuals thrive in certain roles and not others, enabling better role assignments and maximizing individual potential within the team.
5. Improved team work: By grasping the dynamics of the Working Genius model, team members will develop an enhanced ability to communicate effectively, leverage each other's strengths, and work as a cohesive unit toward shared goals.
6. Enhanced meetings: Participants will learn practical techniques to optimize meeting efficiency, ensuring that valuable time is utilized effectively and objectives are achieved more efficiently.
7. Improved new staff hires and onboarding: Understanding how the Working Genius model aligns with different roles will support better decision-making during the hiring process and enable seamless integration of new team members into existing teams.
8. Decreased burnout: By aligning tasks with team members' natural strengths, the workshop helps prevent burnout and fosters a healthier work-life balance.
9. Increased purpose and satisfaction at work: Through greater self-awareness and alignment of tasks, team members will experience a heightened sense of purpose and satisfaction in their work, leading to increased productivity and overall well-being.
Workshop Structure
The Working Genius Worship workshop is carefully designed to deliver tangible outcomes and equip teams with the tools to immediately implement positive changes. The structure of the workshop is as follows:
1. Personalized Assessment: The day begins with a comprehensive assessment that identifies each participant's unique Working Genius. This assessment serves as a foundation for self-discovery and understanding.
2. Engaging Teaching: Participants will learn about the Working Genius model and how it applies to their individual work style and team dynamics. Engaging teaching sessions provide a deep dive into the concepts and principles of the Working Genius: Responsive and Disruptive Geniuses, the phases of work, and the altitudes of work. All these tools empower participants with the knowledge needed for success.
3. Team Analysis: Through the Working Genius team map, team members will gain insights into their individual positions within the team. This analysis often brings forth numerous "a-ha" moments, revealing the reasons behind certain team dynamics and paving the way for meaningful discussions and improvements.
4. Actionable Steps: The workshop aims to instigate immediate action and change. Participants will be guided in applying their newfound knowledge to make small but impactful adjustments within the team. These changes will promote productivity, joy, purpose, and reduce frustration, leading to a more efficient and fulfilling work environment.
The Working Genius Worship workshop is a transformational experience that offers a roadmap to unlock your team's full potential. By enhancing self-awareness and team dynamics, this workshop is the catalyst for increased productivity, trust, and overall job satisfaction. Let us help your team thrive and achieve greatness together. Contact us today to schedule the workshop and start your journey towards a more fulfilled and successful team.
How can the Working Genius be applied to my team?
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One of the trickiest parts of working in not-for-profit is engaging volunteers. The Working Genius asks the question, ‘What brings you joy and energy?’ When we engage a volunteer through providing the with purpose and meaning they are far more likely to give to their team whole-heartedly. The Working Genius can help you achieve far more than what you thought possible through practical application of a person’s God given Geniuses.
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I have found only two scenarios in creative teams. They love working together or they hate working together! Like it or not, creative teams are made up of highly sensitve people. This gives them the ability to create masterpieces, but can also cause them to struggle working in teams. The Working Genius allows the creative team to discuss team issues in a way that is non-confrontational. Learning about the beauty and the shadow sides of one’s Genius helps us to understand how we react and what personal improvements we can adopt to increase team functionality.
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You know you need a new staff member. So who is the right fit? The Working Genius maps your current team and spells out what type of person you need to hire. A skilled Working Genius facilitator can help you ensure your new hire has the right skills to complement your team. Don’t forget, your new hire isn’t just about their skills, but also about their fit in your organisation’s culture.
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Using the Working Genius in your mentoring enables you to tailor your time together in a way that embraces their Genius and will have them leaving your office feeling motivated and valued.
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Sales is a specific skill set that some people love and some people don’t. The Working Genius can help you to understand why some in your team excel and some don’t. It can help you to assign different parts of the sales process in a way that will maximise your teams Working Genius.
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Did you know that current statistics show 2 out of 3 Australians will experience burn out in their lives? Astronomical! The Working Genius answers the question of burn out by finding out what brings a person joy and energy. Increasing joy and energy at work, decreases the likelihood of burnout. This understanding for our students will be invaluable as they enter a workforce which will look entirely different to the one I entered 25 years ago.
For more info: Workng Genius for Schools
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The old school model of teaching asked the teacher to be a one stop shop; to come up with the ideas, to make sure they will work, and then implement. In today’s fast paced World, schools are recognising that increased collaboration is required. The Working Genius will help people to understand why they are great at innovating, discerning or implementing. It will reduce guilt that results from perceived ineffectiveness and will increase team engagement as your staff are energised by their work.
For more info: Working Genius for Schools
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The greatest difficulty in working remotely is creating a team culture. Misunderstandings and silos form easily when people are not working in close proximity. The Working Genius gives your remote team opportunity to laugh and learn together. It will help you develop positivity and cross silo divides. It communicates to your team that you value them and their Genius. It helps your people to understand why people communicate the way they do and thus reduce misunderstandings.
The most important place to start in leadership is self-awareness. If I don’t understand myself, how can I understand those I lead? If I don’t understand them, how can I lead them?
— Shane Kuchel