August 24, 2026
You fill in the questionnaire, you read your six results, and for four of them you think: yes, that's me. At the fifth you drop off. It's one of the reactions I hear most often during a debrief, and it doesn't mean the model doesn't work for you.
Patrick Lencioni's Working Genius model uses a questionnaire of 42 questions that takes about ten minutes to fill in. After that, the six types fall into three pairs: your two strongest geniuses (Working Genius), two you can handle perfectly well (Working Competency), and two that drain you (Working Frustration). The questionnaire measures where your energy comes from, not how good you are at something.
That's exactly where reading a result often goes wrong. The Table Group has its own worksheet for this situation, and it doesn't recalculate anything. For each type it gives you three statements and asks which one fits you:
| What you recognise in this type | Where it belongs |
|---|---|
| This comes easily to me and gives me energy | Working Genius |
| I can do this fine, but over time it drains me | Working Competency |
| This frustrates me and costs me energy | Working Frustration |
Every type comes with the same instruction: sort by energy and joy, not by skill. Something you're good at can simply end up in your Working Frustration.
That worksheet is also the honest answer to your doubt. The Table Group doesn't publish its exact scoring method, so when a result chafes, your own recognition is what you're left with. Put your result next to an ordinary working week in your calendar and look at where your energy came from. What you see there counts for more than the order on paper.
Source: Patrick Lencioni, The 6 Types of Working Genius (The Table Group, 2022), including the official worksheet for determining your final result.
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