Everyday situations, each with four ways to pitch in. Pick the part you'd look forward to and the part you'd rather hand off. Each letter above stands for a kind of work from Patrick Lencioni's The 6 Types of Working Genius (2022). You'll find out which ones are yours at the end.
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Read a short scenario from work, volunteering, family or friendship. Picture yourself in it, even if it's unlike your life.
Make two picks: the part you'd most look forward to, and the part you'd most want to hand to someone else. Go with your first reaction. Think about what would give you energy, not what you'd be best at.
Break any ties that matter with a quick either-or choice, then see your results and which type each pick pointed to. Your answers stay in this browser and are never sent anywhere.
The options describe what you'd do in the moment. None of them names a type, and the type behind each one stays hidden until the end.
Picking one favorite and one to hand off, a method called best-worst scaling or MaxDiff, makes it harder to give every kind of work the same high rating.
Every combination of four types appears the same number of times, so each type faces every other type equally often. Scenario and option order are shuffled for each person.
This is not the official Working Genius assessment, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Table Group. The scenarios are original and have not been validated. For the official assessment and report, go to workinggenius.com.
Which part would you most look forward to, and which would you most want to hand off?
Patrick Lencioni's The 6 Types of Working Genius (2022) describes six activities any work needs: Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement and Tenacity. They fall into three stages: Ideation, Activation and Implementation. According to the Table Group, everyone has two types that give them energy and joy, two they can manage, and two that drain them. The Table Group says its assessment is based first on energy and joy rather than skill.
The official assessment takes about 10 minutes and costs $25 per person (prices as of October 2026). The Table Group says it beta-tested it with more than 1,000 people in 2020 and hired a team from Concordia University Irvine for research. That work covered outcomes, a Net Promoter Score and a reliability rating. The validity research has not been published yet.
This page uses its own format. The 30 scenarios and 120 options were written for this page from the published type descriptions. Each set of 15 uses every combination of four types exactly once. A type's score is the number of times you picked it as the part you'd look forward to, minus the number of times you'd hand it off.