Management
Managing with the Enneagram
The Enneagram describes nine ways of being motivated, and nine things that reliably go wrong under pressure. One day to recognise your own profile, read your team's, and stop managing everyone as though they wanted what you want.
What you will be able to do
- Know the 9 bases of the Enneagram
- Know your own personality base in the Enneagram
- Know the base of each of your direct reports
- Give feedback adapted to each personality base
- Adapt your delegation to each base
- Motivate each person according to their personality
Programme
A reminder of each participant's Enneagram base
- The vocabulary of the Enneagram
- The main characteristics, strengths and areas for improvement of each base
Which profiles make up my team?
- Identifying the profiles around me, and which ones dominate
- Drawing on other tools and methods, depending on the trainer's certification
- Involving the team member in determining their own profile
Managing each base
- Communicating and giving feedback with each profile
- Coaching, motivating, setting the frame and correcting with each profile
- The strengths to build on
- Each base's relationship to authority
Keeping the Enneagram alive in the team
- Ideas and tips for making it last
What is the Enneagram?
It is a method for studying personality, based on nine patterns of human behaviour. It is a tool for getting to know yourself better, and so for getting to know others better.
What this training gives you
- A better understanding of yourself and your personality, and of your team members’, to improve individual relationships and teamwork
- The ability to recognise your team members’ profiles and to practise individualised, tailored management
- Adapting the toolkit you are given to each team member’s profile, and drawing on individual characteristics to strengthen the team as a whole
- Identifying all the profiles in your team and making the most of the complementarity between their personality bases
Questions about this training
Do participants need to know the Enneagram already?
The training is particularly suited to participants who have already followed a self-awareness or Enneagram training, since it opens with a reminder of each person's Enneagram type.
What is the Enneagram?
A personality model based on nine types. It helps people know themselves better and understand others. In this training, it is used to adapt management to each team member.
What will a manager be able to do afterwards?
Identify the profiles in their team, then give feedback, delegate, coach, motivate and set boundaries in a way suited to each Enneagram type, and keep the Enneagram alive within the team.
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