119. The Genius of Parenting
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The Working Genius Podcast with Patrick Lencioni
19 min
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8 chapters
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Why is parenting considered a leadership role and how does it shape family dynamics?
Bean a Parent is the most important leadership role in our lives. Imagine your child is a galvanizer. You can say things like, It's so cool that you're good at rallying your friends and your brother and your sister around doing things. I love how you get them excited. But oftentimes we might say things like, Be careful not to get people too excited about things that they might not want to do. Even with good intentions, we often tell our kids that natural instinct you had is not good. Understanding their genius really does allow. Allow us to parent them in a way that helps them feel seen and it gives us permission to guide them when they might have to temper it a little bit. Welcome to the Working Genius Podcast, where we discuss anything and everything having to do with the six types of working genius and how it impacts your work and your life.
I've got Cody Thompson with me today. What a treat, Cody. Usually don't join me for well, I guess you do actually. Special day. Special day. That's right. And uh this is gonna be a fun topic. What is it? It's the genius of parenting. That's right. The genius of Parenting. Um we're doing this because uh last week I I spoke at a conference. And I was taking questions from people in the audience about Working Genius and they were so excited and they were using it in their businesses and everything else. It was, it was amazing. It was truly amazing. It was so much fun. But what I didn't expect was that the most passionate questions I got were actually about people wanting to know how to use Working Genius. With their kids.
Mm-hmm.
How can I discover my child’s natural wiring using the Working Genius model?
And and we've talked about this before and we we've talked about our our student assessment for kids in high school age and stuff. But it was just so interesting. And and one of the people that asked, she also asked if uh I think it was the same woman. I wish I could remember her name. She said, Could you make your podcast longer? Because she has an hour commute and she doesn't really like to have to change podcasts. And I said, I don't know if I can do that, but you never know. Today's could be long. We never know how long it's gonna go until we start talking, but Anyway, she was very nice. Okay. So this is more than just our student assessment. This is really thinking about working genius, how it affects our ability to communicate with and guide our children.
Okay. And and and we we know that working genius applies to marriage. We talked a word a podcast about that or a webinar about a month and a half ago. And um but I really wanna focus here on how it informs how we parent our kids. 'Cause I think being a parent is the most important leadership role in our lives. Essentially we're leading our children. It's different, but it's leadership. I'm not sure when this episode is airing, but But it's uh it's we're in that backed school swing. And it really doesn't matter when it airs because some people start school at the beginning of August, some people do at the beginning of September. It's somewhere in there. And so anyway, so that's what we're going to talk about today is how we can use Work Ingenious to really improve the way we understand and interact with our kids.
Yeah, and Pat, you you mentioned we did a marriage webinar a few weeks ago or a month or so ago. So we got to tell the world how great we are as husbands, and now we get to do the parenting version of that. No, I I think the thing that I love that you keep emphasising that emphasizing that I learned from a lot is like as often as we can think of our family as the most important organization in the world, and as often as we can think of ourselves and our our ability to develop ourselves as in leadership development for our family and for our kids. I think that framing of this conversation alone is really impactful for people is we should spend time thinking about the way we lead our homes and invest the same way that we do at work, but oftentimes we don't think of it that way.
Yeah, it's an interesting thing. And I'll do a little commercial right now for the book, The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is parenting considered a leadership role and how does it shape family dynamics?
0:00–1:20
2
How can I discover my child’s natural wiring using the Working Genius model?
1:20–4:17
3
What does it mean to affirm a child’s features instead of trying to fix perceived flaws?
4:17–6:58
4
How do I let my children use their gifts (Wonder, Galvanizing, etc.) without over‑regulating them?
6:58–9:15
5
In what ways does a parent’s own Working Genius affect the home environment?
9:15–11:38
6
How can I give specific, genius‑aligned praise to different children?
11:38–13:42
7
What practical steps can I take to guide children when they over‑use a strength?
13:42–16:09
8
How does sharing your own genius and frustrations with kids improve family communication?
16:09–19:02