Enneagram Workshop – Workplace Application

The Enneagram is a model of human consciousness that offers an insightful map for gaining a better understanding of ourselves and others. With “ennea” meaning nine in Greek and “gram” meaning something written or drawn, the Enneagram is a comprehensive and dynamic system of nine distinct personality types and their inter-relationships. Combining traditional wisdom and modern psychology, it describes the inner motivations and worldviews that drive our behaviours – providing a powerful tool for enhancing our relationships and stress management skills. Originally designed as a tool for personal and spiritual development, the Enneagram is increasingly being used in a broad spectrum of organizations for improving communication, productivity, the quality of staff relationships, and customer services.
Through this observation and activity based advanced programme, participants will further increase their competitiveness and their inter-personal relationship as well as achieving their own success. The activities are easy to participate in and quick at generating meaningful discussions and skill improvement among participants. The 4 main ingredients used in this program are:

Involvement • Interaction • Personal Reflection • Fun !

A series of well-designed training sessions, the participants are also able to re-evaluate their strengths and rooms for improvement, and also master the skills of applying Enneagram in work or daily life.

What can the Enneagram do in organizations?

The Enneagram makes explicit the fact that people are different and different personality types need to be managed differently. The idea of “personality type” must be taken into consideration in every area of the workplace if organizations are to be as effective and productive as they could be. The Enneagram helps everyone understand that there are nine different points of view, nine distinct sets of values, nine different communication styles, nine ways of solving problems and so forth that are all equally useful and valid. All of the types have something necessary to contribute to a thriving, balanced work environment.

Applications on Relationship

So many practical applications are possible with the Enneagram because it is a framework that clarifies the mutually sustaining, self-balancing components that are part of any complex process. Whenever we wish to understand any process more clearly (and why any course of action does or does not work), we can use the Enneagram as a guide.

The different types of people have different perception. This creates different outcomes for any taskes. For example, in the class, we will express the different motivation from different type to operate a successful team, one needs vision and confidence (Eight), the ability to bring people together and to listen to them (Nine), ethical standards and quality control (One), the ability to serve people and anticipate their needs (Two), promotional and communication skills (Three), a well designed product and a sensitivity to its emotional impact on individuals (Four), technical expertise and innovative ideas (Five), teamwork and self-regulating feedback (Six), and energy and optimism (Seven). Thus, each type, seen metaphorically, is a necessary component of the whole, and without it, something important will be deficient or even entirely missing. This kind of analysis can be made on many different conceptual levels for an amazing variety of phenomena.
No matter how we use the Enneagram, we need first and foremost to discover our own personality type and to ascertain the types of those we are dealing with.

Business Applications of the Enneagram

The Enneagram can help you address your organization’s needs in a wide variety of areas. These Enneagram applications include areas such as communication, conflict, feedback, teams, decision-making, coaching, self-development, leadership style, and leadership competency development..

Overall Training Objectives

This workshop offers a unique series of Enneagram-based workshops and coaching services designed to increase the understanding of themselves and their customers in workplace and the participants will learn to:

• Understanding the fundamentals of Enneagram
• Understand personal perception and working styles
• Communicate more effectively with different teammates and customers, especially the difficult customers
• Provide effective feedback to customers
• Prevent and resolve conflicts with customers before they become crisis or complaints
• Create highly productive and positive outcomes with customers
• Develop customized methods for personal and professional development