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The Enneagram in Hiring & Recruiting
What Is the Enneagram? The Enneagram is a personality “mapping” system that identifies nine different, interconnected personality types. In contrast with other popular personality assessments, the Enneagram focuses on people’s motivations instead of behaviors. The Nine Enneagram Personality Types Type One: The Reformer Type Two: The Helper Type Three: The Achiever Type Four: The Individualist…
Encouraging Employee Innovation in the Workplace
What Is Workplace Innovation? Workplace innovation is a process of implementing something new—a new way of thinking, creating, and working. It encourages employees to be passionate about their work, and it harnesses the power of employee creativity to create new solutions to old problems. If it isn’t already, workplace innovation should be a part of…
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.