“At the heart of it, a successful team is about healthy relationships.”
THE ENNEAGRAM FOR YOUR RELATIONSHIP
WHY INVEST YOUR TIME AND MONEY IN YOUR TEAMS WELLNESS?
- The people we hire and work with are human beings with goals, insecurities, passions, and challenges. The better we understand this and acquire tools to manage them as real people, the more we’ll impact their lives in a positive way and as a result, our businesses too.
- If team members are disconnected from each other, it leads to disharmony, frustration, inertia, anxiety, apathy, and unnecessary conflict, which in turn leads to an unproductive (and ultimately unsuccessful) business – it is imperative to support the individual team member if you want to create a healthy company.
- A work environment should be a place where team members are inspired, encouraged and supported to reach their fullest career potential, which in turn will translate into a successful and thriving company.
- Now more than ever, it has become clear how essential it is to invest in our team’s personal development and wellness, because simply put: human beings are still a company’s biggest and most important investment.
HOW CAN I CREATE A THRIVING AND FULFILLING TEAM?
A powerful tool for understanding and effectively managing our team members is THE ENNEAGRAM — a dynamic personality framework of 9 CORE TYPES describing nine different patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. All personality typing systems can be useful for personal growth, but what separates the ENNEAGRAM from the rest is that, instead of focusing on our traits and behaviours, it explores the fears, desires, and motivations that lie in the unconscious layers of our personalities and influence how we show up in the workplace.
BENEFITS OF KNOWING YOUR TEAM'S ENNEAGRAM TYPES
- THE ENNEAGRAM not only gives us an understanding of the underlying and subconscious beliefs, defences, attitudes, and fixed behaviour patterns that lead teams to get stuck or frustrated with each other, but also gives us tools to get unstuck from that which is holding the team back.
- THE ENNEAGRAM can help team members to communicate more efficiently with each other and manage areas of conflict more effectively.
- Through exploration, THE ENNEAGRAM encourages a team member’s self-awareness, the top trait shared by the most successful CEOs of the world.
- THE ENNEAGRAM can equip you with tools to manage your team’s emotional triggers so that they can show up more healthily in the workplace.
- THE ENNEAGRAM helps team members to not take their own and their fellow team members’ personalities personal.
THE 9 CORE MOTIVATIONS AND DESIRES OF EACH TYPE
To Be Needed/Loved
Basic Fear:
Of being unloved, unappreciated and unwanted
Basic Desire:
To feel loved, appreciated and wanted
TYPE 2s feel that they need to be helpful and generous towards others. They prove themselves worthy of love and acceptance by taking the responsibility to serve and support others to the point of sacrificing their own needs.
Of being unloved, unappreciated and unwanted
Basic Desire:
To feel loved, appreciated and wanted
TYPE 2s feel that they need to be helpful and generous towards others. They prove themselves worthy of love and acceptance by taking the responsibility to serve and support others to the point of sacrificing their own needs.
To Be Valued/Successful
Basic Fear:
Of being worthless, without value and unwanted
Basic Desire:
To feel worthwhile, accepted, and desirable
TYPE 3s strive to achieve success and recognition by being ambitious, competitive, persuasive, and adaptable. They feel that they will earn the admiration, trust, and love of others through their reputation, image and self-image, and impressive achievements.
Of being worthless, without value and unwanted
Basic Desire:
To feel worthwhile, accepted, and desirable
TYPE 3s strive to achieve success and recognition by being ambitious, competitive, persuasive, and adaptable. They feel that they will earn the admiration, trust, and love of others through their reputation, image and self-image, and impressive achievements.
To Be Significant/Authentic
Basic Fear:
Of having no meaning, no personal significance
Basic Desire:
To find themselves and their significance, to create an identity out of their inner experience
TYPE 4s avoid being mundane, superficial, uninteresting, or mediocre. They seek depth, meaning, intimacy, and self-expression and earn love by being emotionally intense, creative, expressive, artistic, or dramatic. They may also come across as temperamental or spiritually inclined.
Of having no meaning, no personal significance
Basic Desire:
To find themselves and their significance, to create an identity out of their inner experience
TYPE 4s avoid being mundane, superficial, uninteresting, or mediocre. They seek depth, meaning, intimacy, and self-expression and earn love by being emotionally intense, creative, expressive, artistic, or dramatic. They may also come across as temperamental or spiritually inclined.
To Be Competent/Self-reliant
Basic Fear:
Of being helpless, useless, incapable, and overwhelmed
Basic Desire:
To be capable and competent
TYPE 5s aim at being in control by understanding their world. They are ruled by the head as opposed to the heart, seek learning and insight, and avoid feeling ignorant, inadequate, helpless, and clueless. They earn the respect and acceptance of others by being competent and effective.
Of being helpless, useless, incapable, and overwhelmed
Basic Desire:
To be capable and competent
TYPE 5s aim at being in control by understanding their world. They are ruled by the head as opposed to the heart, seek learning and insight, and avoid feeling ignorant, inadequate, helpless, and clueless. They earn the respect and acceptance of others by being competent and effective.
To Be Supported/Secure
Basic Fear:
Of having no support & guidance, of being unable to survive on their own
Basic Desire:
To find security and support
TYPE 6s deeply engage with others and their environments to ensure that all is well. They have a strong sense of responsibility and respond to their inner distrust and doubt by being vigilant and testing others' loyalty. They, themselves, can be loyal to a fault and strive for security by aligning themselves with others.
Of having no support & guidance, of being unable to survive on their own
Basic Desire:
To find security and support
TYPE 6s deeply engage with others and their environments to ensure that all is well. They have a strong sense of responsibility and respond to their inner distrust and doubt by being vigilant and testing others' loyalty. They, themselves, can be loyal to a fault and strive for security by aligning themselves with others.
To Be Stimulated/Satisfied
Basic Fear:
Of being deprived and trapped in pain
Basic Desire:
To be happy, satisfied, to find fulfilment
TYPE 7s seek sensation, fun, stimulation, variety, and fulfilment to avoid boredom, disappointment, sadness, helplessness, and/or insecurity. Their spontaneous and versatile behaviour is aimed at pursuing desires that they fear will not be fulfilled by others. They seek pleasure to avoid pain.
Of being deprived and trapped in pain
Basic Desire:
To be happy, satisfied, to find fulfilment
TYPE 7s seek sensation, fun, stimulation, variety, and fulfilment to avoid boredom, disappointment, sadness, helplessness, and/or insecurity. Their spontaneous and versatile behaviour is aimed at pursuing desires that they fear will not be fulfilled by others. They seek pleasure to avoid pain.
To be Strong/Self-Governed
Basic Fear:
Being harmed, controlled, or violated by others
Basic Desire:
To protect themselves, to determine their own course in life
TYPE 8s come across as assertive, wilful, self-directed, and confident. Their core fear is to be controlled, violated, betrayed, and/or limited by circumstances and/or people. They avoid this by taking control in a powerful and self-sufficient way to ensure they are not being put in any kind of vulnerable position.
Being harmed, controlled, or violated by others
Basic Desire:
To protect themselves, to determine their own course in life
TYPE 8s come across as assertive, wilful, self-directed, and confident. Their core fear is to be controlled, violated, betrayed, and/or limited by circumstances and/or people. They avoid this by taking control in a powerful and self-sufficient way to ensure they are not being put in any kind of vulnerable position.
To Be At Peace/Maintain The Status Quo
Basic Fear:
Of loss and separation; of annihilation
Basic Desire:
To maintain their inner stability and peace of mind
TYPE 9s are fearful of conflict, disharmony, and being disconnected from others. They therefore refrain from questioning or challenging themselves or other people and instead accommodate others to maintain peace, harmony, stability, and the status quo.
Of loss and separation; of annihilation
Basic Desire:
To maintain their inner stability and peace of mind
TYPE 9s are fearful of conflict, disharmony, and being disconnected from others. They therefore refrain from questioning or challenging themselves or other people and instead accommodate others to maintain peace, harmony, stability, and the status quo.
To Be Good/Right
Basic Fear:
Of being imperfect, defective, wrong, or corrupt
Basic Desire:
To be good, right, and virtuous - to have integrity
TYPE 1s aim to be principled, good, structured, and focused. Mediocrity or not having high standards is unacceptable to these individuals. They can be expected to overextend themselves to achieve righteousness, and to steer away from what is wrong towards what is virtuous.
Of being imperfect, defective, wrong, or corrupt
Basic Desire:
To be good, right, and virtuous - to have integrity
TYPE 1s aim to be principled, good, structured, and focused. Mediocrity or not having high standards is unacceptable to these individuals. They can be expected to overextend themselves to achieve righteousness, and to steer away from what is wrong towards what is virtuous.
Sources: Connect Coaching and cognadev.com/blog_128.html
THE PROCESS
- 90 min individual session with each team member during which they will be guided through a process to discover their Dominant Enneagram Type
- 1 x 90 min group session during which the team will receive feedback of each member’s Dominant Enneagram Type
- 1 x 90 min group session during which the team will identify challenges within the group dynamic
- 1 x 90 min group session to discuss practical, workable and realistic solutions to optimise team engagement and development
- 2 x 90 min follow-up sessions in which progress and challenges are discussed – workable solutions are workshopped among the team
