The Six Types of Working Genius™ landed. For a week, everything made sense — why the brainstormer goes quiet in execution, why the finisher dreads kickoffs, why the same project dies at the same stage every time. Then the letters went where letters go: a PDF, a drawer, a slide nobody reopens.
The assessment did its job. Nobody gave the results one. Here are three moves that cost nothing — and the thing that makes them permanent.
Individual letters are trivia. The operating unit is the handoff — where a starter's work becomes a finisher's. Walk your map and name every real handoff out loud. Most of your stalls live at a handoff nobody has named.
One meeting asks a room for three kinds of energy: open it wide, decide, commit to finishing. Stop asking everyone for all three at once. Put the right people forward at the right stage — and notice who's been silently carrying a stage that isn't theirs.
One page per person: the genius to hand more of, the frustration to stop assigning silently, and the competency trap — work that looks fine and drains slowly. A manager who walks in knowing this has a different conversation entirely.
Those three moves work — until the meeting ends and memory fades. So give the map to something that never forgets — meet it —
A facilitated session that turns individual results into a team map: every person's geniuses and frustrations on one page, pairings named out loud, and the stall points in your real work traced back to the map.
Most workshops end at understanding. This one ends at operating: the map lives on in GrayMatter, a coach that briefs your managers before real conversations — so the six types show up in how work moves.
Yes. Bring your team's existing results — $7,500 for a full day, including three months of GrayMatter for the whole team plus two manager coaching sessions; format and scope flex on a fifteen-minute call. Teams up to 16, onsite Twin Cities or virtual.
Something has to hold the map after the meeting ends. That's GrayMatter's job — it knows how every person is built and briefs the manager before conversations that matter — and the coach who ran your debrief stays in the rhythm.