The Barzel Group Blog
Key Personality Types for Your Strategic Planning Team
What influences your business’s strategic plan? It could be last year’s profits, customer feedback, new products, a changing economy, or any number of factors. But a significant factor affecting your strategic plan—and your likelihood of success—is the team that creates it. Why Personality Types Matter to Strategic Planning Who’s invited to the strategic planning table…
Using the Enneagram in the Workplace
What Is the Enneagram? The Enneagram is a method of psychological typing based on nine interconnected personality types. In contrast with other popular personality assessments, the Enneagram focuses on motivations instead of behaviors. This allows for people with similar external traits to receive different results based on their internal motivations. Enneagram Types Explained The nine…
How to Include Strategic Flexibility in Your Business
What Is Strategic Flexibility? Strategic flexibility allows your business to adapt and change in order to succeed. Instead of rigidly defining success as one outcome achieved via a single, predetermined method, businesses with strategic flexibility broaden their definition of success to encompass multiple methods and outcomes while still retaining enough specificity to know how to…
Using the Enneagram for Decision-Making
Make tough decisions easier when you use the Enneagram for decision-making. Understanding your motivations will give you insight and clarity.
How to Start a Coaching Business
I’m often asked by people launching their coaching business, “Jay, what did you do to start yours? What should I consider as I step out on my own?” Since I first launched my business coaching practice in 2013, the coaching industry has changed dramatically. No longer do companies hire business coaches as a last resort…
The Dangers of Intuitive Leadership
“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.” That’s from Malcom Gladwell, author of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. History backs up his assertion with countless examples of inexplicable snap decisions that turned out to be pivotal: The skinny race horse has knobby…