Resources for
Leadership Teams
Your Hidden Genius and the included YouScience assessment can help your teams achieve career wellness and a better understanding of their strengths and skills. With these workshops and discussion guides, you'll help your team gain a deeper understanding of their innate aptitudes and how they complement those of their colleagues.
How to Use These Resources
Whether you have an hour or want to use this guide for an all-day retreat, you can engage your team in a variety of discussions and activities to discover their hidden genius!
This guide is broken into two levels: if you and your team have one hour or if you and your team have three hours or more.
Before beginning your discussion, all team members should take the assessment at YouScience.com to discover their aptitudes. Follow these steps to have you and your team’s aptitudes at hand:
Head to YouScience.com and log in.
Click on the “Discover Aptitudes” box on the Aptitude and Career Discovery page.
In the upper right hand corner, click on “Download Aptitudes.” This will generate a full and detailed 40+ page summary report (we suggest you actually print it out!) of your aptitudes and how to put them to work in all aspects of your life.
You can also use the interactive results dashboard to learn more about your aptitudes, personality, and interests.
“Schools, universities, corporations and nonprofits are hyper-focused on producing better learners and employees. Yet they rarely understand that the keys to success are hidden in plain sight: helping their students, faculty, and staff understand themselves better.
The benefit is learning to understand those with different profiles from our own, strengthening the #1 skill companies are looking for: the ability to collaborate effectively.”.”
—Dr. Milton Chen, Executive Director, Emeritus, George Lucas Educational Foundation
Facilitator Guides and Workshops
Break out into groups based on your assessment results. Groups should start in small groups based on their aptitudes. Go through the questions in your breakout sessions. If time allows, rotate groups to discuss other aptitudes.
Come back together to discuss interesting findings from your breakout sessions.
In addition to the one hour materials, break out into groups based on your assessment results. This could be done as a unified group or in smaller breakout groups, depending on the number of participants.
After your discussions:
Now that you’ve had a chance to discuss your aptitudes in small groups, come back together to share some of your observations as a team. Below are some questions to start the conversation.
Did you find anything surprising about your own results? Did anything about your aptitudes align with what you already know about yourself or others on your team?
Which aptitudes would partner well in future projects?
How can your team and/or manager support your hidden genius?
How can the leadership team support your aptitudes?
