If you lead a team in Illinois and you know something is off, Working Genius might be the framework that finally names it. Your leadership team is talented. The org chart looks right. The strategy document exists. And yet meetings drift, decisions get revisited, and the same three people carry most of the execution load while everyone else nods politely. You have tried offsites. You have tried team-building days. Three months later it feels like none of it happened. Worki

If you have ever tried to book a facilitator for your leadership team and ended up with someone who ran a session that felt good in the moment but changed nothing by the following quarter, you already know the problem. The Working Genius model holds real power when the facilitator understands how to use it beyond the assessment itself. Most teams do not need another personality inventory. They need someone who can name the patterns breaking alignment, show them where energy

If you have ever wondered why your talented leadership team keeps producing underwhelming results, the Working Genius framework might hold the answer. Patrick Lencioni created the Working Genius model to help teams understand the six types of work that drive productivity and the reality that each person is naturally gifted in only two. When you pair people with work that matches their genius, energy rises. When you force them into work that drains them, even your best hires

If your leadership team nods during strategy sessions but nothing shifts when everyone returns to their desks, the problem is not your strategy. The problem is that you are asking people to execute work their brains are not wired to do. Working Genius reveals which types of work energise each person on your team and which types drain them. When a facilitator uses the model well, the team stops pretending alignment exists and starts building the kind of clarity that produces

If you have ever sat through an offsite where the energy was high, the flip charts were full, and three months later it was like the session never happened, you already know the problem. The session was not designed for what happens after everyone leaves the room. You got alignment theatre instead of real change. Your team walked out nodding but nobody changed how they actually spend their Tuesday mornings. Working Genius changes that pattern because it does not just diag

If your leadership team is talented on paper but dysfunctional in practice, the problem is probably not personality. It is misaligned natural talent. The Working Genius model, created by Patrick Lencioni, names six types of work that every project requires. When people work inside their natural Geniuses, energy flows and execution accelerates. When they work outside them, even the most capable teams grind to a halt. The model is simple, the impact is immediate, and a skille

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Your executive team looks impressive on the organisation chart, but the offsite you ran six months ago changed nothing. You spent two days workshopping strategy, everyone nodded in agreement, and three months later the same tensions surfaced in the same meetings. The problem was never the venue or the agenda. The problem was the person running the room. A skilled facilitator does not just guide discussion. They surface the conflict your team has been avoiding, translate com

If you have ever sat through a team building session that produced nothing but awkward trust falls and zero change in how your team actually works together, you already know the problem. Most team building facilitators deliver a day of activities, some laughs, maybe a debrief, and then everyone returns to the office where the same dysfunctions resurface within a week. The leader who booked the session is left wondering why they spent the budget. The team is left wondering w

Your executive team is talented on paper but the offsite you ran six months ago changed nothing. Three days in the mountains, thousands spent on catering and accommodation, and within a fortnight everyone was back to their old patterns. The strategy document sits in a drawer. The breakthrough conversation you had about trust has not translated into a single changed behaviour. You know you need an external facilitator, someone who has done this before, someone who can walk i