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610R: How to Help Team Members Find the Right Work, with Patrick Lencioni

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Patrick Lencioni: The 6 Types of Working Genius

Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to protecting human dignity in the world of work, personal development, and faith. Pat is the author of twelve best-selling books with over seven million copies sold. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team remains a national best-seller and he’s also the author of The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team.

Many of us have heard the invitation from Jim Collin’s book _Good to Great_ to get the right people on the bus. But once the right people are on the bus, how to do you find the right seat for each person? On this episode, Pat and I discuss how to utilize the Working Genius model to find the right work for the right team members.

Key Points
  • When addressing burnout, the type of work someone does is more significant than the volume of work.
  • Three stages of work are present for almost every team: ideation, activation, and implementation.
  • A cup of coffee in an excellent thermos can stay hot an entire day — that’s true of us when we’re aligned with our working geniuses.
  • Finding the right work for a team member is far easier than finding the right person culturally. Before you look elsewhere, be sure they are in the right seat.
  • To fill gaps in your team’s geniuses, you can hire, borrow, or find people where competence will suffice for now. Resist the temptation to immediately jump to hiring.
    • Resources Mentioned
    • The 6 Types of Working Genius assessment
    • The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team by Patrick Lencioni
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      • How to Lead an Offsite, with Tom Henschel (episode 377)
      • The Mindset Leaders Need to Address Burnout, with Christina Maslach(episode 609)
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