I’m an enabler and an inventor at heart. If you need ideas of how to do something, and if you need someone to help you do it, that’s my genius.

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Working Genius – Pat Lencioni’s brilliant model of team.
https://lnkd.in/gAqKvWSr

W – wonder
I – invention
D – discernment
G – galvanising
E – enablement
T – tenacity

Do you know your areas of genius?
Your areas of competence?
Your areas of frustration?

It is such a simple tool but so effective to see your team and build effective ways of working, getting people in their genius roles and out of their frustrations.

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I used to devalue one of my areas of genius – enablement. If someone had a plan and just needed to get it rolling, I could do it. I didn’t think too highly of this skill. In fact, I belittled it, thinking I was nothing special, helping others, doing what others needed, and getting stuck in. But over time, people have helped me see the value of getting something started, of making things happen, of bringing others along with me. Similarly, people have told me over the years that they enjoy working with me because I am easy to work with. Again, I thought this was nothing special.

But we can be prone to minimising our talents and skills because they’re what we do, naturally, and so we think they’re nothing special.

Well, they are. Because they’re what you do naturally. Your talent. Your skill. Your genius. So give yourself a pat on the back today, for what you can do naturally. Hone that because others will see it as what’s special about you.

And given we might find it hard to do this for ourselves, why not tell someone else today what you think their genius is!