1135: Patrick Lencioni on How to Identify Your Gifts for More Energizing Work Days
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Pat Lencioni discusses how to tap into your genius to make work more fulfilling and energizing.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to stop feeling ashamed of your weaknesses
2) The six types of working genius
3) The real reason why so many professionals are burning out
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— ABOUT PAT —
Pat is one of the founders of The Table Group and is the pioneer of the organizational health movement. He is the author of 13 books, which have sold over 9 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages.
As President of the Table Group, Pat spends his time speaking and writing about leadership, teamwork, and organizational health and consulting with executives and their teams. After more than twenty years in print, his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, remains a fixture on national best-seller lists.
His most recent book, The Six Types of Working Genius, was released in September 2022, and he is also the host of the popular business podcast, At The Table with Patrick Lencioni.
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• Past episode: 707: Amy Edmondson on How to Build Thriving Teams with Psychological Safety
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| 0:00.0 | We have to stop trying to prove that we're going to be good at things that we're not meant to be good at. |
| 0:13.9 | So to be awesome at your job, find a job that you can be awesome at. |
| 0:18.5 | And it probably already exists in the organization you're in. |
| 0:22.6 | Burnout is not about you working too much. |
| 0:25.6 | Some people can get burned out just kind of where they're working job. |
| 0:29.1 | 98% of the time it's not about the hours you're working. |
| 0:32.2 | It's about the nature of the work you do. |
| 0:40.6 | That's Pat Lanchone. |
| 0:42.0 | He's best known as the author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and many other classic |
| 0:45.6 | business books, and today he's here to share powerful insights from his book, The Six |
| 0:50.1 | Types of Working Genius, a better way to understand your gifts, frustrations, and your team. |
| 0:54.9 | Pat also hooked us up with the 20% off discount for his renowned working genius assessment |
| 0:59.0 | with the code awesome, which is pretty cool. So you'll learn one, how to stop feeling ashamed |
| 1:04.4 | of your weaknesses. Two, the six types of working genius. And three, the real reason why so many |
| 1:09.9 | professionals are burning out. |
| 1:12.1 | And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways that Pat shared, |
| 1:15.6 | I recommend you mosey over to awesomeatyourjob.com and sign up for the free Gold Nugget |
| 1:20.5 | email newsletter. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Pete McItis. |
| 1:23.0 | This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. |
| 1:24.5 | And now, here's Pat. |
| 1:33.6 | Pat, welcome back. It's great to be back with you. It's been wild. It has, yes. And we both moved to Tennessee. It lasts since we chatted last. |
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