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Understanding People at Work: The Practical Enneagram New!
Nearly everyone struggles with managing others and motivating them to sustain enthusiasm and work at their best. The Enneagram—a personality typology with ancient roots—is proving to be a powerful tool for understanding differences and increasing human resource potential.
In fact, countless organizations—from Adobe to General Mills to Toyota—are using the Enneagram to:
- Build stronger, more balanced teams
- Improve communication, job satisfaction, motivation and productivity
- Determine skills and strengths of present and prospective employees
- Positively transform work environments
- Better understand customers and their needs
- Improve working relationships
- Help employees perform more effectively when stressed
- Increase levels of professionalism and personal mastery and much more
Attend this program and discover how you can use the Enneagram to reap these benefits in your organization.
During this new, two-day workshop, you will:
- Discover the Enneagram’s nine different value systems and character structures—and the strengths and potential liabilities of each
- Learn how value systems affect job performance
- Apply knowledge of the nine character types to real-time management challenges
- Identify actions that can help you become an effective leader, as well as those that hinder your success
- Determine what really motivates the people with whom you work
- Discover and apply strategies for managing conflict and improving interpersonal relationships
- Recognize when you are under stress, how your behavior changes, and how these changes affect others
- Understand differences in effectiveness when operating at various functional levels
- Gain immediately applicable tools, techniques and interventions for improving any working relationship
Agenda:
- Introduction to the Enneagram System
- What Motivates People?
- Relating Styles and Conflict Styles
- Overview of the 9 Enneagram Types
- Value Systems
- How to Manage
- How to Persuade
- What Happens to Us Under Stress
- What Happens to Us When We’re Operating at Our Highest
- Creating High Performance Teams
- Instinctual Drives and How They Impact Relationships
- Levels of Effectiveness and Personal Mastery
- Action Planning
For a printer friendly copy of the entire agenda
Instructor: Paula Raines Bio
Schedule:
- Tuesday-Wednesday, November 11-12, 2008 (Course #097EBH) register
- Tuesday-Wednesday, April 21-22, 2009 (Course #097KBK) register
Fee: $675 (includes instruction, seminar manual, lunch, certificate of completion, parking, and refreshment breaks)
