Ideas keep accumulating
Your team enjoys exploring possibilities, but moving an idea into action takes more effort than expected.
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The 6 Types of Working Genius®
Understand what energizes your people and where work gets stuck. Apply those insights together in a facilitated Working Genius session.
A useful starting point
Your team enjoys exploring possibilities, but moving an idea into action takes more effort than expected.
Some people are still exploring the question while others are ready to assign tasks. The conversation moves without a shared direction.
Being capable of a task does not mean someone finds it energizing. Familiar assignments can hide an uneven burden.
These patterns are a starting point for inquiry. We also consider workload, priorities, role clarity, and authority before deciding whether Working Genius is the right tool.
Understand the model
The model moves through three stages: Ideation, Activation, and Implementation. Every stage needs attention.
Notice unmet needs and ask what could be different.
Generate an idea or approach to address the need.
Use judgment to evaluate and refine the idea.
Build the energy and commitment to move into action.
Provide the assistance needed to move work forward.
Follow through until the work meets its intended standard.
Wonder and Invention support Ideation. Discernment and Galvanizing support Activation. Enablement and Tenacity support Implementation. All six contributions matter.
From assessment to application
The assessment identifies two areas in each category:
The facilitated discussion connects those results to your experience at work.
The map brings individual Geniuses and Frustrations into one view. Together, you consider where energy is concentrated and which contributions need more deliberate attention.
The profile supports a development conversation. It does not measure capability or determine someone’s role, and an area of Frustration does not remove responsibility for necessary work.
The team session
Four-hour workshop
Build on the profile and team-map discussion with a closer look at a real project and your team’s meetings.
Two-hour follow-on
For teams that have completed the four-hour session, or for additional teams inside an organization-wide rollout.
We confirm the session length, participant group, delivery arrangements, and scope with you before scheduling.
What to expect
We discuss the team’s context with the leader. Participants complete the assessment, and the team map is reviewed in preparation. We also select a past project to examine together.
Participants connect their profiles to real examples. The team considers its collective patterns and where a different contribution could help the work move forward.
Your profile, team map, and agreed commitments provide a reference for ongoing conversations. You also leave with project and meeting changes to test in practice.
Participant perspectives
“Nayli offered me an insight framework that helped me better understand my needs, wants, and frustrations at work and allowed me to apply that forward to benefit my team of leaders. We have a lot to accomplish together, and it’s important that we understand each other more to achieve the right momentum and rhythm.”
“This framework has given me such incredible clarity. I’ve been reflecting on all my group projects, even back in college, and it all makes so much sense now. Just yesterday, before watching the recording, I was in a meeting where I realized I was using my Discernment strength without even being fully aware of it.”
“Through Nayli’s guidance on DiSC Styles and the 6 Types of Working Genius, our team gained not only practical tools but also deeper insights into how we collaborate, communicate, and show up for one another.”
Common questions
Working Genius focuses on the activities involved in getting work done and the energy people experience in those activities. DiSC explores behavioral tendencies and how people interact. We choose the tool based on the question your team needs to address.
For a session built around individual profiles and a team map, each participant completes the Working Genius assessment in advance. We confirm the assessment arrangements during planning.
You do not need six people or an equal distribution of Geniuses. The useful question is how the team gives attention to all six contributions. The map helps you discuss where support or a more deliberate process may be useful.
No. Frustration describes the experience of doing the work, not a lack of ability. People may be skilled at activities they find draining. The discussion helps the team understand that distinction while maintaining shared responsibilities.
This is a development tool. Results should not determine hiring, promotion, or job fit. They can inform a conversation about work alongside experience, skills, responsibilities, and the needs of the organization.
We make room to discuss that response. Participants consider their examples and whether they answered from what their role requires or from what they find energizing. The profile is a starting point for conversation, not a label someone has to accept.
Teams start with the four-hour session, which covers the profiles, the team map, and a real project. The two-hour session is available afterward as a follow-on, or for additional teams in an organization-wide rollout.
The session is designed for one intact team with its leader, because the team map is most useful when people actually work together. For a larger department, we run the session with each team so every team has its own map.
The right tool for the situation
A shared vocabulary can help a team examine how it works. It cannot resolve an unrealistic workload, unclear authority, or broken trust on its own.
If the main constraint sits in roles, decisions, working relationships, or the organization’s structure, we will discuss the work that needs attention alongside or before a workshop.
Explore our work with teams →Tell us where projects stall, meetings lose focus, or people feel stretched. We’ll discuss whether Working Genius is a useful starting point and what the session should address.