Enneagram

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The Enneagram is a powerful and nuanced tool for self-awareness and transformation. Combining ancient spiritual wisdom and modern psychology, the Enneagram provides a map of our automatic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Understanding the map of our own core type results in greater self-awareness and provides insights that can lead to personal growth and transformation. The Enneagram also helps us understand and have greater compassion for others, and provides insight into how to relate more effectively.

The combination of its impact on self-awareness and relational effectiveness makes the Enneagram a key tool for leadership development. Leaders and teams that learn and integrate core Enneagram principles raise their E.Q. (emotional intelligence), which results in more effective communication, collaboration, and innovation.
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The Enneagram describes nine ways of seeing the world

Each type has a particular set of underlying beliefs and a strategy for getting needs met that is developed early in life. Each has its strengths and blind spots. Learning to recognize these different points of view enables us to understand our own and other people’s motivations, their major needs and concerns, and styles of working and relating. It helps us to build rapport, reduce unnecessary conflict, and cooperate with higher levels of effectiveness.
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No one can be reduced to a type or a number‍

People are of course more than their personality. Each person has an essential, core self that is unique. Our intention in applying the Enneagram isn’t to put ourselves in boxes, but rather to enable us to get out of the box of our already established personality. When applied with wisdom and care, the Enneagram allows us to become more flexible and creative, rather than stuck in habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

Why we trust the Enneagram‍

In the decade plus we’ve taught Enneagram to thousands of leaders and teams, we’ve seen a dramatic rise in its authority and popularity in the organizational world and beyond. We attribute the adoption rates to the accuracy and depth of The Enneagram. When wisely applied, the Enneagram becomes  integral to the cultural fabric of organizations and key to the positive cultural shifts that organizations experience. 
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There is accompanying research with this rising trend. Early studies to test scientific validity are positive. With the accompanying expansion of organizational development, more research is sure to follow.

Get Started

The challenge of using the model is that there are no written Enneagram tests that can be trusted to accurately determine your type. Based on test results alone, it’s extremely easy to mistype yourself or others. For years, CLG has been on a quest to find the most accurate typing assessment tool possible. We have chosen to partner with The Enneagram Group, led by Debbie Burditt, who is one of the world’s top typing experts. Debbie spent over a decade refining her assessment process after typing thousands of leaders around the world.‍

Take the Burditt Enneagram Online Test

If you’re working with a budget, you can take the Burditt Enneagram Online Test. This can be a good starting point for exploring the Enneagram, but keep in mind that until you work with an expert, it will be difficult to determine your type with a high degree of accuracy.

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‍Get Coached
(For organizational leaders)‍

Discovering your Enneagram type is a great start to learning and growing with your personality patterns. A CLG coach will support you to deepen your insight and create sustainable change as you explore how your type influences how you live and lead.
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Train Your Team(s)‍

Getting your team typed and trained as a group can be a collaboration game changer. Knowing your own types and the types of your team members deepens connection, empathy, collaboration, productivity, and often, fun(!). 

Introduction to Enneagram

• One of our Expert Enneagram Typers will type all team members
• Your Enneagram Facilitator will lead a half- or full-day training.
  You’ll learn about the 9 Enneagram types and how they show up as different leadership styles. Everyone will gain greater insight into their own and their teammates' strengths and challenges, and how they interact with one another based on type.  
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Advanced Modules

We offer a suite of advanced Enneagram modules to support your team to become even more self aware and utilize the wisdom of the Enneagram model for more effective collaboration. We encourage teams to take the whole series in the order below, but you can also pick specific modules that interest you for a custom program. A call with our team will help you clarify what’s best for your organization.

LISTEN EFFECTIVELY‍
Each Enneagram type is associated with limiting beliefs that affect listening and feedback styles. You’ll learn about your type’s limiting beliefs and how you can stay aware of them to be a more effective listener, and to take in feedback with less reactivity. You'll also discover how each type likes to receive feedback, so you can better frame your communication to minimize conflict and maximize learning.

THE PATH TO WELLBEING
‍Each Enneagram type has a vice and a virtue: the vice is how we create our unique brand of suffering, the virtue points towards the path to ease our suffering. Learning about the achilles heels and super-powers of your team-mates is a setup for more compassion, understanding, and effective collaboration. You’ll also find that as you spend less type in your vice and more time in your virtue, life will become more exquisite.

COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY
‍Discover the communication style of each team member (built on the vice and focus of attention from earlier modules). This is a game changer in terms of genuinely understanding your team-mates and yourself. Everyone will learn how to express themselves more clearly and to effectively listen to one another.‍

SEE REALITY MORE CLEARLY
‍Defense mechanisms are unconscious psychological strategies we use to deal with overwhelming situations. While they were formed to protect us, they also keep us from experiencing our true selves. In this session, we help you to understand what each type is trying to avoid that keeps you from being a more responsive leader.

FROM THREAT TO TRUST
 We offer you a guide that defines the triggers and behaviors  to look out for that cause each type to get reactive. We’ll also share practical shift moves associated with each type to help you more easily come back to presence. This session is also an introduction to basic conscious leadership models that may inspire a team to want to begin a conscious culture program with us as a next exploration.

YOUR DRIVE TO SURVIVE
‍Though there are 9 Enneagram types, there are actually 27 unique expressions because each type has three variations known as instincts. You’ll explore the three instincts: self-preservation, one:one, and social. We lead with one of the styles, which influences how we specifically react in challenging situations. These patterns are formed in childhood; understanding your instinctual patterns is a beautiful key to unraveling unsatisfying life-long patterns. 

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Enneagram for YPO 

We offer Enneagram typing and training for YPO Forums and Chapters. Knowing your Forum-mates’ types can deepen connection and empathy, and support you to notice and address Enneagram patterns and blind spots that keep each of you from creating what you most want.  

• One of our Expert Enneagram Typers will type all Forum members
• Your Enneagram Facilitator will lead a half- or full-day Forum training.
• You’ll learn about the 9 Enneagram types and how they show up as different leadership styles. Everyone will gain greater insight into their own and their teammates strengths and challenges, and how they interact with one another based on type.  
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“I've leveraged the power of Enneagram awareness in multiple companies since being introduced to the tool by Diana almost a decade ago. In each instance, the way we engaged with one another became deeper, richer and more efficient. But most importantly, we became more compassionate and empathetic; we became closer as human beings.”
Mark Anderegg, Co-Founder, Newbury Franklin

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