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

One of the most common questions I get about the Enneagram...⁣⁣...has to do with how to harness it for team building and leadership.⁣⁣⁣⁣Listen now⁣⁣⁣In entrepreneurship, the workplace, or in the home, leadership is super important.⁣⁣The Enneagram is great because it gives you a framework for leadership that doesn’t complicate things too much.⁣⁣In the workplace, for example, there’s a lot of different types of people with different backgrounds and experiences.⁣⁣Keeping it all straight can be really challenging.⁣⁣I’m really passionate about helping teams and organizations.⁣⁣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.⁣⁣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.⁣⁣⁣Quotes:⁣1:19⁣To try and effectively lead from one frame of thinking, believing ,operating truly does not work. ⁣⁣3:31 ⁣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.⁣⁣5:30 ⁣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. ⁣⁣9:24 ⁣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. ⁣⁣14:49⁣The 2’s in the enneagram—the supportive advisers, the helpers, they’re super generous; they’re the people connectors and relationship builders.⁣⁣17:25⁣The 4’s, my romantic individualist, they are the story telling creatives, they make world beautiful. ⁣⁣20:51 ⁣I’ve said this before, if I had to pick one Enneagram type to have as a phone a friend card, it would probably be a 5, a healthy 5 because they know their shit. ⁣⁣22:45 ⁣If you are leading a 6, let them ask all the questions, they are not being insubordinate. They have this divine need of certainty. ⁣⁣24:14 ⁣When you get a 7 that you’re leading, know that they will come at you like a firehose of ideas. ⁣⁣26:02⁣You definitely want an 8 in your life because if all hell is breaking loose, the 8’s got it and they’re not afraid.⁣⁣