16: Enneagram 101: 8 Ways The Enneagram Builds Stronger Communication in Business

EnneaTalk Tuesday: The 8 ways the Enneagram can bring success to your business Another week means another EnneaTalk Tuesday—and you definitely don’t want to miss this episode. For this week’s topic, I discuss how the Enneagram can be used in business to increase productivity, motivation, and profits. I introduce the eight different ways this tool can help lead your company to success and how, if you have the right type, it can help not only refine your management skills, but build the culture you and your employees seek.Listen to this week’s episode to see how the Enneagram can move the needle in your business’ culture, communication, and profit. Habits, Patterns, and the EnneagramHave you ever wondered how your communication style might affect those around you? When it comes to work, everyone has different ingrained patterns and modes of process. I open this episode by covering every personality type’s unhealthy habits in business and how the Enneagram can be used to identify and break them. How understanding yourself can help your business thriveThe key to being a good leader is knowing your own strengths and weaknesses, so the core piece to implementing this tool into your business is to first use it to understand yourself—so you can truly learn to see, hear, and understand others.I dig into how the Enneagram can help you develop self-awareness, as well as understand and speak the same language as those you lead. This can help to resolve conflicts easier, communicate effectively, and recognize other’s gifts in order to help them, and your business, grow.Building culture that cultivates creativity and engagementI discuss how environment is stronger than willpower and why it is important to create a healthy culture that empowers, encourages, and makes people want to come back—so there is no boundary to how far your business can go. Investing in the Enneagram can help build a culture of motivation, trust, productivity, and fun, and this in turn can change everything about your business—bringing purpose, increased revenue, retention, and success. If you are ready to move the needle in your business’ profit, reach out to me and let the Enneagram help bring everything you have desired for your business—bottom line.Minute Markers:This is a very clear map to know the people you are dealing with 1:50 Leaders go first 1:58 - tracyHow can you tell people something to do that you aren’t willing to do? 2:19If you don't know what it feels like its never going to translate properly. 2:28We all want to make a difference in the world 2.41The Enneagram can help you bring out the best in the people that you lead. 2:59It’s really important to understand who you’re working with and leading. 3:51The Enneagram can help shine the light on the patterns in your life that become a problem. 4:15There’s no one Enneagram personality that’s better than the other; we’ve all got beautiful strengths and gifts. 5:09The healthier you are and the healthier the people in your business are, the more profitable your business will be and the more productivity that you will have. 5:45If you’re not self aware, you’re going to make poor decisions. 6:12The goal is to have a team of all different gifts working together 9:09When you can speak to people in their language, of their type, you are going to be more effective.10:45Any time you have people in a room with different ideas, you're going to have conflict. The challenge is to use the conflict constructively. 11:46Sometimes when you’re stuck in your personality it's tough to resolve any conflict. 12:07When people are doing things they are good at confidence gets built and when confidence gets built they’re more productive. 6:13When you have the right people in the right positions to the organization is more likely to work together harmoniously. 16:18Because I mastered my own self-awareness first, my kids followed my lead. 25:40