Corporate Workshops
Nine Ways of Doing Business: Using the Enneagram Spectrum of
Personality Styles in Corporations
The Enneagram paradigm has been used to train leaders and staffs in
businesses like Motorola, Navistar, the CIA and the U.S. Post Office. It is
being presented in educational settings from the Stanford Business School to the
Chicago School System and is applied in Church and retreat settings by various
denominations and traditions. Attesting to its international recognition and
acceptance, organizations are using the Enneagram throughout the Americas,
Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Appreciating differing personality styles with their particular values,
points of view, intuitive capacities, and problem solving strengths contributes
to a group’s awareness, liveliness, decision making capabilities, and
effectiveness.
Understanding one’s own resources and deficiencies leads to greater self
awareness, self mastery, and a more effective use of self as a team manager,
member, or consultant.
Based on perennial and contemporary wisdom, the Enneagram model provides a
system for leveraging this understanding to create change. It deftly describes
nine personality styles each with its own way of perceiving, processing and
responding to relationships and work situations, while mapping different aspects
of one’s personality that are likely to come forward under stressful and peak
performance conditions.
When all nine energies and perspectives are present, a comprehensive panorama
is seen, more options are available, better problem solving procedures are
enacted, and more effective action can be taken. Awareness of the blind spots
and narrowed perspectives of each style helps lessen conflicts and
misunderstandings.
By recognizing the strengths and potential blind spots of these nine
personality styles, workshop participants will:
