136: The Enneagram in the Workplace: Helping everyone feel seen, heard, and understood

One of the most common questions I get about the Enneagram...⁣<br />⁣<br />...has to do with how to harness it for team building and leadership.⁣<br />⁣<br />⁣<br />⁣<br />Listen now⁣<br />⁣<br />⁣<br />In entrepreneurship, the workplace, or in the home, leadership is super important.⁣<br />⁣<br />The Enneagram is great because it gives you a framework for leadership that doesn’t complicate things too much.⁣<br />⁣<br />In the workplace, for example, there’s a lot of different types of people with different backgrounds and experiences.⁣<br />⁣<br />Keeping it all straight can be really challenging.⁣<br />⁣<br />I’m really passionate about helping teams and organizations.⁣<br />⁣<br />Introducing the framework of the Enneagram and teaching leaders and management teams how to integrate it into the workplace can help everyone speak the same language.⁣<br />⁣<br />That’s because everyone then understands the nine different languages their coworkers, bosses, and charges speak, giving everyone the capacity to feel seen, heard, and understood.⁣<br />⁣<br />⁣<br />Quotes:⁣<br />1:19⁣<br />To try and effectively lead from one frame of thinking, believing ,operating truly does not work. ⁣<br />⁣<br />3:31 ⁣<br />One of the biggest challenges is the hard work of leadership always begins with the most difficult person we will ever lead, and that is ourself.⁣<br />⁣<br />5:30 ⁣<br />If we don’t understand the ‘why’ behind it, we are kind of just kicking the can down the street and we never get to the root of what is not working. ⁣<br />⁣<br />9:24 ⁣<br />The Enneagram is important for teams, because it can tell you what gifts you have, what others have, and what’s missing on our team. ⁣<br />⁣<br />14:49⁣<br />The 2’s in the enneagram—the supportive advisers, the helpers, they’re super generous; they’re the people connectors and relationship builders.⁣<br />⁣<br />17:25⁣<br />The 4’s, my romantic individualist, they are the story telling creatives, they make world beautiful. ⁣<br />⁣<br />20:51 ⁣<br />I’ve said this before, i