Find your zone of Genius WORKSHEET
What comes naturally to you that creates value for others?
Your Zone of Genius is where your natural strengths, experience, energy, and ability to make an impact come together.
It’s not simply what you’re good at.
It’s the work, contribution, or way of thinking where you are uniquely effective.
1. WHAT COMES NATURALLY?
What do you do well without having to work unusually hard at it?
People often tell me I’m good at:
2. WHAT DO PEOPLE COME TO YOU FOR?
Think beyond your job title.
What advice, help, perspective, connections, or expertise do people consistently seek from you?
The sentence I hear over and over is:
“Can you help me with __________________________________?”
3. WHAT GIVES YOU ENERGY?
Think about the moments when you become fully engaged and lose track of time.
I feel most energized when I am:
☐ Creating
☐ Teaching
☐ Leading
☐ Organizing
☐ Connecting people
☐ Solving problems
☐ Strategizing
☐ Encouraging others
☐ Building something
☐ Communicating
☐ Caring for others
☐ Analyzing
☐ Advocating
☐ Other: ___________________________
I could talk about this for hours:
4. WHERE HAVE YOU CREATED RESULTS?
Think about your career, community, family, volunteer work, business, and life experience.
Something I have done that I’m particularly proud of:
What did I specifically contribute that helped make it successful?
5. WHAT DO YOU SEE THAT OTHERS SOMETIMES MISS?
Maybe you quickly see the solution, the opportunity, the problem, the person who needs to be connected, or the better way to do something.
I tend to notice:
CONNECT THE DOTS
Look back at your answers.
What words, skills, themes, or patterns keep showing up?
My recurring themes:
MY ZONE OF GENIUS
Complete this sentence:
I am at my best when I am…
Now take it one step further:
My Zone of Genius is:
Using my ability to ________________________________
to help __________________________________________
so that __________________________________________.
PUT YOUR GENIUS IN MOTION
Knowing your Zone of Genius matters most when you use it.
One way I can use my Zone of Genius more intentionally this month:
CONNECTION CHALLENGE
Who in the room might benefit from your Zone of Genius?
And whose Zone of Genius could help you move something forward?
MONDAY MORNING MOMENTUM
Your genius isn't just what you know.
It's what happens when you put what you know into motion.