What You'll Explore:Expert-Backed Content
Discover your Working Geniuses, Competencies and Frustrations, and understand why some kinds of work naturally energise you while others require more effort.
Understand Yourself
Explore how different Geniuses shape the way people think, contribute and collaborate — building greater appreciation for what each person brings to the work.
Understand One Another
Jodi Crain
Learn how the six Working Geniuses move work from an idea to completion, and recognise what different stages of work need in order to succeed.
Understand the Work
Turn insight into action by identifying practical changes that can make your work more effective, collaborative and sustainable.
Work Differently
Working Genius Workshop
Discover how you work best — and how to work better together.
Understand what gives you energy, what the work requires, and how to draw on the different Geniuses around you to turn insight into better ways of working.
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Where do I find energy — and where am I spending it?
Explore your Working Genius profile and identify your areas of Genius, Competency and Frustration. Discover the work that naturally gives you energy, the work you can do well but that may cost you over time, and the contribution you naturally make. Build greater self-awareness about how you work best and where you may need support.
Explore your Working Genius profile and identify your areas of Genius, Competency and Frustration. Discover the work that naturally gives you energy, the work you can do well but that may cost you over time, and the contribution you naturally make. Build greater self-awareness about how you work best and where you may need support.
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What Is Working Genius? 1, 2 and 4 Hour workshops
Meet the six types of Working Genius and discover the important distinction between Genius, Competency and Frustration — based not simply on ability, but on energy and enjoyment.
Meet the six types of Working Genius and discover the important distinction between Genius, Competency and Frustration — based not simply on ability, but on energy and enjoyment.
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Your Results (1, 2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Explore your own Working Genius results with curiosity, noticing what immediately resonates, what surprises you, and where your current responsibilities may or may not align with your natural energy.
Explore your own Working Genius results with curiosity, noticing what immediately resonates, what surprises you, and where your current responsibilities may or may not align with your natural energy.
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Your Two Geniuses (1, 2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Take a closer look at your two Geniuses and the distinctive pairing they create, including the strengths, contributions and potential blind spots you naturally bring to your work and team.
Take a closer look at your two Geniuses and the distinctive pairing they create, including the strengths, contributions and potential blind spots you naturally bring to your work and team.
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What You Crave and What Crushes You (1, 2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Discover what each Genius tends to crave and what can particularly discourage or shut it down — and consider how those experiences affect the way you respond at work.
Discover what each Genius tends to crave and what can particularly discourage or shut it down — and consider how those experiences affect the way you respond at work.
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Value, Guilt and Judgement (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Challenge assumptions about which kinds of contribution are most valuable, recognising that every Genius is necessary — and every Genius can become unhelpful when overused or used at the wrong time.
Challenge assumptions about which kinds of contribution are most valuable, recognising that every Genius is necessary — and every Genius can become unhelpful when overused or used at the wrong time.
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What does the work require?
Discover how the six Working Geniuses move work from an initial possibility through to completion. Learn to recognise what different stages of work require, diagnose where projects or meetings may be getting stuck, and identify which Genius is needed next. Apply the framework to real work so ideas can move forward with greater clarity and momentum.
Discover how the six Working Geniuses move work from an initial possibility through to completion. Learn to recognise what different stages of work require, diagnose where projects or meetings may be getting stuck, and identify which Genius is needed next. Apply the framework to real work so ideas can move forward with greater clarity and momentum.
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Six Geniuses - Six Activties of Work (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
See the six Geniuses as six essential activities of work, moving from noticing a need and imagining possibilities through to mobilisation, support and completion.
See the six Geniuses as six essential activities of work, moving from noticing a need and imagining possibilities through to mobilisation, support and completion.
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Three Stages of Work (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Explore the three broad stages of work — Ideation, Activation and Implementation — and the different questions and contributions required within each one.
Explore the three broad stages of work — Ideation, Activation and Implementation — and the different questions and contributions required within each one.
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Every Job Is A 6 Letter Job (1, 2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Discover why successful work requires access to all six activities, even though no individual or team will naturally have all six as areas of Genius.
Discover why successful work requires access to all six activities, even though no individual or team will naturally have all six as areas of Genius.
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What Happens When We Skip A Stage? (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Explore what can go wrong when teams repeatedly bypass parts of the workflow — from solving the wrong problem to generating ideas that never gain momentum or work that never gets finished.
Explore what can go wrong when teams repeatedly bypass parts of the workflow — from solving the wrong problem to generating ideas that never gain momentum or work that never gets finished.
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When A Genius Is Missing (4 Hour Workshop)
Learn three practical ways to respond when the work requires a Genius your team does not naturally have: borrow it, activate it or design around it.
Learn three practical ways to respond when the work requires a Genius your team does not naturally have: borrow it, activate it or design around it.
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The Altitude Of Genius (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Explore the different “altitudes” at which the six Geniuses operate, from big-picture possibility and ideas at higher altitude through to support, execution and completion closer to the ground.
Explore the different “altitudes” at which the six Geniuses operate, from big-picture possibility and ideas at higher altitude through to support, execution and completion closer to the ground.
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Responsive and Disruptive Geniuses (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Explore the difference between Geniuses that naturally introduce questions, ideas or movement and those that respond to what is already present — including the important Invention–Discernment loop that helps ideas become stronger.
Explore the difference between Geniuses that naturally introduce questions, ideas or movement and those that respond to what is already present — including the important Invention–Discernment loop that helps ideas become stronger.
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Whose Genius do we need?
Shift the focus from your own profile to the contributions of those around you. Explore how different Geniuses interact, where misunderstanding or tension can arise, and how to recognise and value what others bring. For teams, identify collective strengths, gaps and blind spots — and learn to draw on the right Genius at the right time.
Shift the focus from your own profile to the contributions of those around you. Explore how different Geniuses interact, where misunderstanding or tension can arise, and how to recognise and value what others bring. For teams, identify collective strengths, gaps and blind spots — and learn to draw on the right Genius at the right time.
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Who around us can provide what the work requires? (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Put your individual profiles together on the Team Map and notice the patterns they create: where your team has concentration, where it has gaps and what those patterns might help explain.
Put your individual profiles together on the Team Map and notice the patterns they create: where your team has concentration, where it has gaps and what those patterns might help explain.
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Team Strengths (4 Hour Workshop only)
Identify where your team has concentrated Genius, what that enables you to do particularly well and where a collective strength could become unhelpful through overuse.
Identify where your team has concentrated Genius, what that enables you to do particularly well and where a collective strength could become unhelpful through overuse.
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Team Gaps (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Explore the Geniuses that are missing or underrepresented on your team and consider when those gaps matter, who may already be compensating and how the missing contribution could be accessed.
Explore the Geniuses that are missing or underrepresented on your team and consider when those gaps matter, who may already be compensating and how the missing contribution could be accessed.
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Shared Frustrations (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Look beyond your team’s Geniuses to its shared Frustrations, identifying the work your team may collectively avoid, find unusually heavy or need to approach more deliberately.
Look beyond your team’s Geniuses to its shared Frustrations, identifying the work your team may collectively avoid, find unusually heavy or need to approach more deliberately.
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Difference Is Not Deficiency (1, 2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Practise moving from judgement to curiosity by asking what contribution might sit behind a colleague’s frustrating behaviour — without using Working Genius to excuse behaviour that needs addressing.
Practise moving from judgement to curiosity by asking what contribution might sit behind a colleague’s frustrating behaviour — without using Working Genius to excuse behaviour that needs addressing.
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Regulating Your Genius (4 Hour Workshop only)
Learn to recognise when your Genius is serving the work and when it may be getting in the way — including the danger of assuming that work which feels easy to you should feel easy to everyone else.
Learn to recognise when your Genius is serving the work and when it may be getting in the way — including the danger of assuming that work which feels easy to you should feel easy to everyone else.
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The Competency Trap - As A Team Problem (1, 2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Consider whether capable people on your team are repeatedly being given work because they are good at it, without anyone asking whether that work actually gives them energy.
Consider whether capable people on your team are repeatedly being given work because they are good at it, without anyone asking whether that work actually gives them energy.
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Craves And Crushed By - Part 2 (4 Hour Workshop only)
Bring “craves and crushed by” into the team context and explore the practical conditions that help each person offer their best contribution — or inadvertently cause them to withdraw it.
Bring “craves and crushed by” into the team context and explore the practical conditions that help each person offer their best contribution — or inadvertently cause them to withdraw it.
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Better Together: Complimentary Pairings (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Explore what your Genius pairings mean for the team: where different pairings bring particular strengths, where they may rub against one another and how complementary contributions can help the work move forward.
Explore what your Genius pairings mean for the team: where different pairings bring particular strengths, where they may rub against one another and how complementary contributions can help the work move forward.
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What will we change?
Turn insight into practical changes in the way you work. Consider where you can lean further into your Genius, where Frustrations may be consuming unnecessary energy, and where you need the contribution of others. Apply Working Genius to roles, projects, meetings and collaboration, and identify practical changes that will help you and your team work more effectively.
Turn insight into practical changes in the way you work. Consider where you can lean further into your Genius, where Frustrations may be consuming unnecessary energy, and where you need the contribution of others. Apply Working Genius to roles, projects, meetings and collaboration, and identify practical changes that will help you and your team work more effectively.
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Insight Is Not The End Point (1, 2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Move beyond simply understanding your Working Genius profile and consider what you will actually do differently because of what you now know.
Move beyond simply understanding your Working Genius profile and consider what you will actually do differently because of what you now know.
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Redesign Your Meetings (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Use Working Genius to clarify the purpose and altitude of your meetings, recognise which stages of work are required and reduce the turbulence that comes when people are working at different levels.
Use Working Genius to clarify the purpose and altitude of your meetings, recognise which stages of work are required and reduce the turbulence that comes when people are working at different levels.
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Core Meeting Exercise (4 Hour Workshop only)
Apply Working Genius to one of your real meetings, identifying what currently happens, what the meeting actually requires and the practical changes that could make it work better.
Apply Working Genius to one of your real meetings, identifying what currently happens, what the meeting actually requires and the practical changes that could make it work better.
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Change The Way You Delegate (4 Hour Workshop only)
Look beyond who simply has capacity and consider what kind of work you are delegating, whose Genius could add particular value and where additional support may be needed.
Look beyond who simply has capacity and consider what kind of work you are delegating, whose Genius could add particular value and where additional support may be needed.
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Team Exercise - Choosing 3 or 4 Norms (4 Hour Workshop only)
Turn your team's Working Genius insights into three or four simple, practical agreements that address real patterns and help you work together more intentionally.
Turn your team's Working Genius insights into three or four simple, practical agreements that address real patterns and help you work together more intentionally.
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Building Individual And Team Commitments (1, 2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Translate insight into a small number of meaningful commitments: what you will do differently, what you will ask of others and what your team will change together.
Translate insight into a small number of meaningful commitments: what you will do differently, what you will ask of others and what your team will change together.
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Keeping Your Insights Going (2 and 4 Hour Workshops)
Keep Working Genius alive beyond the workshop by identifying simple ways to use the language, Team Map and core questions in your everyday work.
Keep Working Genius alive beyond the workshop by identifying simple ways to use the language, Team Map and core questions in your everyday work.
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