You Don't Need Another Assessment—Or Do You?

If you've rolled your eyes at the idea of taking yet another assessment, I get it. 

Most leaders I work with have taken plenty of them already. Personality tests, leadership styles, strengths reports… and half the time you walk away thinking, “Okay… now what?”

But stay with me for a moment, because this one is different.

First, let's clear something up: an assessment is not a test. A test has right and wrong answers. An assessment simply helps you understand how you naturally function—no grades, no judgment. And as your business coach, it helps me get to know you faster so I can coach you better.

Here's the bigger shift in thinking: an assessment doesn't put you in a box. It actually helps you get out of one—the box you (or others) may have already put yourself in. When you understand how you're wired, you gain the freedom to lead yourself, your team, and your business with a lot more clarity and confidence.

And that’s where Working Genius comes in.

What Makes The Working Genius Different

Most assessments focus on personality. The Working Genius focuses on productivity—specifically, where you get your greatest joy and energy when doing work versus the types that drain it.

For business owners, that distinction matters a lot.

The framework is organized around the acronym WIDGET:

• Wonder — asking big questions and imagining possibilities

• Invention — creating new ideas and solutions

• Discernment — evaluating and judging ideas with good instincts

• Galvanizing — inspiring and rallying people to take action

• Enablement — supporting and helping others succeed

• Tenacity — pushing through to get things done

Each of us has:

• 2 Working Geniuses — work that energizes us and feels natural

• 2 Working Competencies — work we can do, but that drains us over time

• 2 Working Frustrations — areas that zap our energy almost immediately.

When you know your Working Genius, a few things start to happen.

You can stop forcing yourself into work that exhausts you and start building the right frameworks around you so you can win at what you're doing. 

In other words, you stop trying to be good at everything.

Why This Matters for Leaders

One of the biggest challenges I see with business owners is they are doing work that doesn’t match how they are wired to produce.

That creates frustration, decision fatigue, and unnecessary tension with their teams.

The Working Genius gives language to what’s really happening—and once you can name it, you can build better structures around it.

And that’s exactly what we do in coaching.

Let’s Keep the Conversation Going

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to take a deeper dive into each of the Working Geniuses and what they look like in real leadership situations.

My hope is that it helps you think differently about your role, your team, and how work actually gets done inside your business.

Because when leaders understand how they are wired to produce, everything gets clearer.