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Aligning Working Genius with Cloverleaf Team Roles

So your team can boost energy, clarity, and impact.

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Written by Peggy Allis Murriner
Updated over a week ago

Patrick Lencioni’s 6 Types of Working Genius categorizes the kind of work that gives us energy, in and out of work, while Cloverleaf’s Team Roles uses your behavioral tendencies, strengths, and motivations to share the easiest work for us.

How Each Working Genius Shows Up in Team Roles

Here’s a simple breakdown that shows how each Genius finds a home in one or more Cloverleaf Roles.

The Six Types of Working Genius

These describe the kind of work that gives someone energy and satisfaction:

  • Wonder: Reflecting and questioning the state of things; seeing possibilities others miss

  • Invention: Creating novel ideas and solutions; generating something from nothing

  • Discernment: Using intuition and instinct to evaluate ideas and decisions

  • Galvanizing: Rallying and mobilizing others to take action

  • Enablement: Offering timely, supportive help to others

  • Tenacity: Completing tasks with rigor; overcoming obstacles to get things done

The Eight Cloverleaf Team Roles

These define how individuals naturally contribute within a group:

  • Innovator: Creative problem-solvers who love fresh ideas and imaginative thinking

  • Resourcer: Tactical enablement: outgoing connectors who bring in people, ideas, and external opportunities

  • Coordinator: Organizers who make work clear, structured, and aligned across people and priorities

  • Driver: Action-oriented and goal-focused, keeping momentum high and results in sight

  • Monitor: Strategic evaluators with broad perspective and strong judgment

  • Teammate: Relational enablement: supportive and diplomatic collaborators who create a sense of unity

  • Implementer: Reliable executors who take plans and turn them into action

  • Finisher: Detail-focused perfectionists who polish work to the highest standards

On Your Team

Full-cycle Conversations

These are the most effective and energizing conversations, ensuring ideas are not just imagined, but activated and completed.

Designate someone for the project tasks that fall into each of the Team Roles.

Ideation without Activation

You generate ideas (Innovator) but don’t vet or rally people to act on them (missing Implementor or Coordinator).

  • Result: Exciting, but scattered or unrealistic.

Activation without Implementation

You make decisions and get people energized (Implementation), but don’t follow through effectively (missing Driver or Monitor).

  • Result: Plans made, but not executed.

Implementation without Ideation

You get things done (Teammate, Resourcer, Finisher), but without upstream creativity or strategic thinking (missing Innovation).

  • Result: busywork without impact or purpose.

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