Your Superpower is your contribution, the role that you’re put on this Earth to fill. It’s what you do better than anyone else.

Everyone has unique strengths – those things that come effortlessly and naturally to you. From Superpowers to Great Teams, a new online class offered by IDEO U in partnership with SYPartners, guides learners through a discovery process to identify their unique strengths—called Superpowers—and learn to amplify them.

Drawing from the archetypes and attributes of effective leaders, these superpowers range from empathy—a strong ability to understand the needs of others—to systems building—understanding all of the pieces of a process—to creative thinking, grit, and decisiveness, among others. Tapping into your superpower will not only help you to bring your best self to work, it will allow you to create the conditions for the people around you to thrive. Knowing yourself and how you relate to others is key to building strong relationships, great teams, and thriving organizations.

Superpower: Ingenuity

Ingenious People are makers through and through. They mix whatever resources they have on hand with a helping of imagination and a dose of can-do optimism. So what if it’s never been done or it seems impossible? People with ingenuity have the will and they find the way. They are amazing collaborators at the eleventh hour, when time is running out and the stakes are high. Or when budgets and staffing have taken a hit.

Collaboration Tips

• Ingenious People thrive on independence. Don’t try to hem them in with rigid processes and protocols. They hate playing by the rules.
• They do their best work under pressure. So, make sure there’s a steady supply of meaty challenges.

Identify your superpower, build stronger work relationships, and learn how to set the conditions for thriving, collaborative teams in our new class, From Superpowers to Great Teams.