All About The Enneagram
Jumpstart Leader Self-Awareness
Discovering your Enneagram Type will help you quickly pinpoint where to invest efforts to achieve high-impact gains.
People need to lead themselves first to lead others effectively, and developing self-awareness is a crucial differentiator in leadership success. Most of us can readily see the gifts of our personality type when first introduced to the Enneagram, but less positive qualities can be harder to acknowledge.
Insights From the Enneagram
Are you fully aware of the impact you’re having on others?
If surveyed, how would your colleagues rate your awareness of your impact on them?
Most leaders believe they are highly self-aware; however, research shows that most have room for improvement. Self-awareness can be a crucial differentiator in leadership success and often leads to high returns on performance, influence, and relationship capital.
The Enneagram tool helps leaders describe difference and similarities among personality types, and this common language makes it easier to work together towards shared goals.
Realizing Your Personality Type
The Enneagram is a personality system we use in leadership development programs to jumpstart self-awareness. The Enneagram describes nine different ways people think, feel, and behave and sheds light on what motivates our behavior most of the time. All nine personality types have tremendous gifts as well as challenges that can become derailers when not acknowledged. The Enneagram “road map” of nine personality styles explains the unconscious, habitual ways we can keep ourselves stuck in patterns that started in childhood. By exploring our type, we can see how we repetitively think, feel, and do the same things as if we are running on autopilot.
As the late renowned Enneagram teacher, David Daniels, stated, “how we relate to ourselves inevitably is how we relate to others.”
Knowing and accepting yourself gives you the best chance to make your maximum contribution and reach your fullest potential. The process to understanding your motivation reveals patterns that keep you stuck.
Leadership isn’t about technical skills; it is about leading people towards a common goal. The better you understand yourself and others, the more effective and efficient you can be at moving others towards that goal.
With no “one size fits all” approach to leadership, the Enneagram helps you become a better version of yourself...and a better leader.
The Enneagram for Leaders
Having a language for describing our differences and similarities makes it easier to communicate with others, give feedback, and approach conflicts in a constructive manner. The Enneagram gives us this language and reminds us that not everyone sees the world the same way or needs the same things we do. This subtle, yet powerful shift in thinking gives us more compassion and leads to better communication, engagement, and relationships.
Leaders who embrace the Enneagram better understand themselves and work to reduce self-defeating behaviors.
Key Elements of Enneagram Programs for Leaders:
Enneagram Personality Typing Interview
The Enneagram is like a map for our self-observation. When beginning to work with the personality system, sometimes it can be difficult for a person to decide which personality type best describes how they tend to see the world.
These interviews include type-specific questions that incorporate each of the nine Enneagram themes.
The confidential interviews are conducted for 60-90 minutes via Zoom.
Enneagram Workshops
Teams typically start their Enneagram journey with an introductory workshop followed by a confidential one-on-one Enneagram typing interview to help them firmly land in their type. We recommend following this with a second workshop that covers how personality types influence the ways people communicate, provide feedback, and handle conflict.
Team Coaching
Capitalize on potential and encourage the entire team to contribute powerfully to your organization’s success. Team Coaching offers a transparent process to discuss key learnings from the program with other team members.
A team comes together on Zoom for a facilitated discussion.
This peer coaching forum provides opportunities to discuss progress on goals and problem solve challenges.
Written summary of each team coaching session’s highlights and agreements will be provided by coach to the Team Lead.
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