A 6 Types of Working Genius free assessment may seem too good to be true, but it’s not.
And who doesn’t like getting free stuff! Especially when it’s something as valuable as the Working Genius productivity tool.
Here are 3 techniques I recommend along with a suggestion at the end of this article that will definitely stack the odds in your favor to make number 3 work for you.
3 Ways To Get A 6 Types of Working Genius Free Assessment
- Have your company pay for it.
- Ask for the Working Genius Assessment as a gift
- Engage with a business coach who is a Working Genius Certified Facilitator
Let me get something right out in the open before you read any further, so you don’t think I’m misleading you.
You can see from this list that by “free” I mean YOU aren’t paying for the 6 Types of Working Genius Assessment.
Because just like the “free” breakfast you get at Embassy Suites, somebody has to pay for it – even when it’s included in the price.
So if we agree we mean YOU don’t have to use your personal money to get a “free” Working Genius Assessment, let’s walk through each option.
We’ll start with the one that seems to be the most obvious to me as a business leader.
In fact, for most successful leaders in a business, this option is a “complete no brainer”.
Real quick before we dig in, if you’re not familiar with the Six Types of Working Genius model, you might want to read this article first: What Is the Working Genius Assessment? – A Real Life Example then come back here to see how you can get yours for free.
1. Have Your Company Pay for The 6 Types of Working Genius Assessment
Why do I consider the decision to purchase a Working Genius Assessment for an employee a “complete no brainer”?
It’s simple.
The cost of a single assessment is small (for a business of any size) and the return on that small investment is big. And it’s immediate!
Small investment plus big (and immediate) return equals a “complete no brainer.”
This falls into the “just go do it” category in my opinion. Some decisions are hard to make. This one isn’t.
But good business leaders don’t make decisions, even the “no brainers”, until they have a clear understanding of how much they’re investing and what they’re getting for their money.
So since you’re a good business leader, let me help you out.
Whether you’re making this decision for your own business or you need to educate your boss, here’s the information you want to consider to justify your decision.
A Simple Business Justification for a Working Genius Assessment
The Cost of the Working Genius Assessment
Let’s start with the financial part of this investment: the cost to buy and take the Working Genius Assessment.
Patrick Lencioni with the team at The Table Group sets the retail price which you can find on the official Working Genius portal.
When you see that price, keep these three things in mind.
1. The retail price for a single Working Genius assessment is the highest price you can pay.
Discounts are available when you buy in bulk or, in some cases, through a Working Genius Certified Facilitator.
2. You most likely spent WAY more than the cost of a single Working Genius assessment on your last business meal.
Even if you’re extremely frugal, you won’t get a lot of food (and definitely not drinks!) at this price.
3. You will also have to invest about 10 minutes to take the assessment.
Yes, you did read that right. The assessment will only take you about 10 minutes. If you spend much more time than that, you’re over thinking it.
While I’m sure you operate at a high level of efficiency, I bet you can carve out 10 minutes from your packed schedule without a significant negative impact to your performance.
So, to summarize, the time investment to complete the Working Genius Assessment is negligible and the financial investment is very small.
The payback, however, is just the opposite.
The Payback of the Working Genius Assessment
Best-selling author and organizational health expert Pat Lencioni captures the payback of an investment in the Working Genius Assessment with this quote.
“The best leaders are the most self-aware leaders.”
Patrick Lencioni
Research done by Korn Ferry supports Lencioni’s position.
What research suggests about self-awareness and high-performing leaders
They analyzed 6,977 self-assessments from professionals at 486 publicly traded companies and tracked their stock performance over 30 months. The findings indicated that companies with a higher rate of return also had leaders who exhibited higher levels of self-awareness. Specifically, employees at poorly performing companies were 79% more likely to have lower overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust return on revenue.
Organizational psychologist and author of Insight, Dr. Tasha Eurich, in summarizing her research reported similar results.
She found that self-awareness is a key predictor of leadership success, and her research suggests that when we see ourselves clearly, we:
- Make sounder decisions
- Build stronger relationships
- Communicate more effectively
- Are more confident and more creative
- Are more-effective leaders with more-satisfied employees and more-profitable companies
I don’t know about you, but those are the types of leaders I want on my team!
Interestingly, however, Eurich also discovered that only 10-15% of people are truly self-aware, despite 95% believing they are.
That tells me that to be a successful leader of leaders, you need to do everything you possibly can to help them develop true self-awareness.
What you can do to help yourself and your leaders be more self-aware
Based on the results of tens of thousands of Working Genius Assessments, Patrick Lencioni describes the 6 Types of Working Genius Assessment as “the simplest and fastest way to discover your gifts and transform your life.“
In other words, when you invest in your employee (or yourself) and give them a company-funded, i.e. “free” Working Genius Assessment, you’re going to get a big return on your investment and you’re going to get it fast.
Like I said, it’s a “complete no brainer.”
Still don’t feel comfortable asking your boss to pay for your assessment?
How about getting a 6 Types of Working Genius free assessment AND helping out the people who love you at the same time?
Here’s how to do it.
2. Ask for the Working Genius Assessment as a Gift
It’s confession time for me. I am more than a little annoying to my friends and family members in one particular area.
Well, if I’m being completely honest, I’m annoying in a lot of ways, but one is particularly relevant here.
Buying a gift for me (and probably you) is hard
I am TERRIBLE to buy gifts for!
You may be the same way.
If you are, you know exactly how I feel when someone asks me what I want for Christmas. Or for my birthday. Or Father’s Day. Or on whatever occasion someone who loves me wants to honor me with a gift.
What’s my answer?
You know because it’s probably similar to yours.
Something like this:
“I don’t know. I don’t really need anything. I’ve got everything I need. You don’t need to be spending your money on me.”
Or, sometimes I know exactly what I want, but it’s WAY out of their price range.
Because as much as my kids love me, I don’t think they’re quite yet in a position to buy me a brand-new pickup for Father’s Day!
I know. I know. What do I have to complain about? This is clearly a first-world problem.
But is a real problem and you’ve probably been in my uncomfortable situation at some point. If you haven’t yet, you likely will be.
Your loved ones don’t like to hear the same old non-answer year after year any more than you want to give it to them.
So, try something different the next time someone asks what you would like as a gift.
A Six Types of Working Genius Assessment is an incredibly meaningful (and affordable) gift
Tell them you would LOVE to try the Working Genius Assessment and send them to my homepage so I can help them get it to you.
And, if the Individual Working Genius Assessment Review package I offer is more than they want to spend, I’ll help them purchase an assessment on their own.
They’ll get the satisfaction of giving you a gift you really want – one that will provide real, life-changing value for you.
And, you’ll get the 6 Types of Working Genius free assessment you’re looking for.
That’s a whole lot better than getting another Starbucks gift card you’ll forget to use, isn’t it?
There are other occasions that are also perfect to ask for a Working Genius Assessment. For example:
Your Graduation
You can start your career out right by discovering your natural gifts and finding out what type of work you’re designed to do.
Too many people spend years, even decades, in jobs that suck the life out of them.
You don’t have to let this happen to you.
You can ask the people who love you to give you a gift that could be the difference between doing work that brings you energy and fulfillment and dreading every single day of the new job you’re about to start.
Your new boss is going to be impressed when you explain how you can add the most value to the company by doing specific types of work and avoiding others.
You’ll have a level of self-awareness well beyond what most of your new teammates have even though they’re much further along in their careers.
And based on the research I referenced above the impact the Working Genius Assessment can have on your leadership potential could make this graduation gift the most valuable present you’ll ever receive.
Your future self getting those significantly higher paychecks than your fellow graduates will thank you.
To get started, you can simply tell people to sign you up for an Individual Working Genius Assessment Review with me as your graduation gift. Or you can have them buy an assessment at WorkingGenius.com and review it on your own.
Either way, you’re going to get a 6 Types of Working Genius free assessment and big boost to start your career.
They’ll be thrilled to know they gave you a gift that will actually made a long-term positive impact on your career and your life.
Or, if you happen to be coming up on a life event even bigger than your graduation, you can try this technique.
Your Wedding
Put a Working Genius Team Mapping Exercise for 2 on your wedding gift registry!
The Working Genius Model is as, or even more, valuable to a team of two working together at home as it is to teams in the workplace.
The couples I’ve done a mapping exercise for have discovered new things about their partners and themselves almost immediately!
And, to build a strong marriage that is full of joy, energy, and fulfillment, the teammate you want to understand the best is your spouse.
Even if your marriage occurred long, long ago, the Working Genius Assessment can benefit you and your spouse so you have another option to get a 6 Types of Working Genius Free Assessment.
Your Anniversary
What kids wouldn’t want to give their parents a gift that will add new energy, understanding, and depth to their relationship?
The Working Genius Team Mapping Exercise for 2 can do exactly that!
Check out these two Working Genius podcast episodes to get more insight on how the Working Genius principles apply in two-person teams, including marriages.
Working Genius Podcast Episode 72: Partnerships and Dirty Work (click here to listen)
In a marriage, a project team, or any other sort of partnership that consists of only two people, someone is going to be taking on dirty work. In this episode, Pat Lencioni and the Working Genius team discuss the necessity of awareness and gratitude in every partnership.
Working Genius Podcast Episode 18: Person on the Street: Tom and Rosylyn (click here to listen)
You can listen as Patrick Lencioni & Cody Thompson talk with Tom and Rosalind Stenzel, co-owners of the innovative retail store “Venture.” Their real-life conversation shows the benefits that come with increased self-awareness and a deeper understanding of one’s innate talents in a business setting and in a marriage.
Through the assessment they quickly discover Tom has the Working Geniuses of Invention and Tenacity while Rosylyn’s are Tenacity and Wonder.
It’s fascinating to listen to Tom and Rosylyn talk about how these Working Geniuses and their Frustrations in combination with each of their unique Working Genius pairings impact the work they do together in their marriage and their business.
After you listen to these conversations, see if you came to the same conclusion I did – whether you’ve been married 5 years or 50 years, the Working Genius Assessment is a powerful tool to help you and your spouse improve yourself and your marriage.
If you don’t find a way to receive a 6 Types of Working Genius free assessment as a gift, here’s another option for you.
And I think this may be the easiest technique of all of them.
3. Engage with a Business Coach who is a Working Genius Certified Facilitator
First you need to know or get to know someone who has been certified by The Tablegroup as a Working Genius Facilitator. That’s where you start.
Then simply ask them to tell you more about the Working Genius model.
Before you know it, they may just offer to send you a link to complete the Working Genius assessment at no cost to you.
Why do I think this might happen?
Because since getting certified, I do it a LOT.
I’m not sure how many Working Genius Assessments I’ve given away for free, but it’s not a small number.
And I’m not the only business coach who does this. Here’s an example from Kathy Gilmore, another Working Genius Certified Facilitator. You can her here on LinkedIn or check out her website.
I found myself nodding in agreement as I listened to Kathy in her video post on LinkedIn.
Kathy’s attitude is exactly what I’m talking about!
So why would I do this?
One motivation is similar to what I’m hearing in Kathy’s video.
Once you’ve experienced the benefits of the Six Types of Working Genius framework personally and with your teams, you can’t help but share it with others!
And I have other factors driving my behavior too.
Why I Give Away The 6 Types of Working Genius Free Assessments
There are several reasons I give away Working Genius Assessments.
A simple business reason for offering a free Working Genius Assessment
The first reason is a simple business investment. I provide several levels and packages of executive coaching for business leaders, and I like to have every client complete the assessment before we work together.
The assessment helps me understand my coaching clients better and have deeper insight into who they are and how they like to work.
If you and I are going to be working together in a coaching environment, I can serve you better by studying your Working Genius Assessment results.
Giving you a free Working Genius assessment may lead to you wanting to hire me as your business coach.
If that’s the case, we can begin making progress even earlier.
And, if you don’t choose to let me provide you with coaching, I haven’t lost a lot of money because, as I explained before, the cost of the assessment isn’t high. And it’s even lower for me because I get a discount as a Working Genius Certified Facilitator.
That’s not the main reason I’ve given away so many assessments over the years though.
The more important reason I give so many people a free Working Genius Assessment
As the old saying goes, “Money isn’t everything.”
What really drives me to invest my money in others, whether they’re potential future coaching clients or not, is the results I know they’ll get.
The increased self-awareness that you will get through the Six Types of Working Genius Assessment can change your life.
I say that with confidence because that’s been my experience and the experience I’ve witnessed with dozens of my clients and coworkers.
I’ve seen firsthand, the positive impact this model can have on teams and marriages.
And I’ve also listened to story after story told by the creators of the Working Genius model. They’ve seen tens of thousands of people get their personal Working Genius Assessment results and tell them about the life-changing effects they’ve experienced.
This is the kind of work I want to do.
In fact, one of my main goals in life is to help others thrive and flourish at work and to have more joy, energy, and fulfillment in alll areas of their lives.
I’ve had the privilege of getting to pursue that goal throughout my career when I’m supervising my direct reports and leading cross-functional teams. And, I get to do the same thing when I’m coaching clients.
Outside of work, I’ve been blessed to have countless relationships in my family, church, and community with incredible humans just like I have in my business relationships.
That’s why I’m so grateful the Six Types of Working Genius framework helps people in all parts of their lives.
So I’ve given free Working Genius assessments to family members, former coworkers, friends from church, and even people I am just getting to know because I know their lives will be better when they become more aware of the types of work they’ve been created to do.
My Working Genius Pairing explains why I do what I do
When you consider my own Working Genius Pairing, you can see why doing this brings me joy, energy, and fulfillment.
The Insightful Collaborator is the term for a person like me who has the Working Geniuses of Discernment and Enablement.
So my innate desire and ability to help others, especially through formal or informal coaching makes sense.
I wouldn’t have understood that as well before taking the Working Genius Assessment and I definitely wouldn’t have been able to articulate it as well as I can now.
You can take a look at it my full report showing not only my Working Geniuses but also my Working Competencies and Working Frustrations too here if you’re interested.
Just thinking about you taking the assessment gets me super curious about what you might learn about yourself when you review your own personal Working Genius Assessment report.
If you’re curious like I am, I encourage you to start with where we started this article.
Pick one of the ways to get the 6 Types of Working Genius free assessment and see if that approach saves you a few bucks.
3 Techniques for Getting a Six Types of Working Genius Assessment for Free
- Have your company pay for it.
- Ask for the Working Genius Assessment as a gift
- Engage with a business coach who is a Working Genius Certified Facilitator
If methods 1 and 2 don’t work for you, you might consider giving number 3 a try with me.
Fill out this form and mention you read this article. I’ll be in touch as soon as I can.
While I would LOVE to give a free Working Genius Assessment to everyone who asks (see the Insightful Collaborator coming out in me?), my business training says that’s just not a good idea.
Having said that, hearing your story about why you’re interested in the Working Genius model and having a conversation about how it could positively impact your life, could make me unable to resist the urge to share this life-changing productivity tool with you.
And you just might become the next person to receive a 6 Types of Working Genius free assessment from me.
Greg Harrod
Greg Harrod is an Executive Business Consultant and Coach. Follow GregHarrod.com to learn how you can build your business and your career as a kind, confident leader. You CAN care deeply about your teammates and still deliver exceptional results. Greg will help you learn how based on his 30+ years of experience leading teams and businesses.
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