Resources To Help You Become a Better Executive

Get to know yourself and your team by adding these resources to your coaching plan.

Become the Leader Everyone Wants to Follow

Embrace true leadership with Jay Hidalgo’s seminal book, based on over 30 years of executive coaching experience.

Would They Follow If They Didn’t Have To?: 13 Ways Great Leaders Build Teams delves into helping leaders master what really matters at work: relationships with their teams, communication, and more.

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Talent Assessment

Every member of every team has unique strengths and abilities that, if developed and leveraged properly, will work to build the team as a whole, bring unity, and yield exponential effectiveness.

Through the use of talent assessment tools, team members identify their unique strengths and areas of contribution. Armed with this new insight, teams then develop new practices for increasing effectiveness and becoming more cohesive.

Strength Types

Our Talent Assessment Process

Team members take an online assessment and receive results in real time. Upon completion of the assessment, we will meet individually or collectively with each team member to review their results, to help uncover insights, and to identify "next step" actions for improvement.

Talent assessment may be included in our coaching services packages.

Tools for Talent Assessment

Lead From Your Strengths

This personalized assessment accurately describes individual habitual patterns of behavior, thought, emotion, and communication. It provides sophisticated, objective insights and action steps about unique strengths – data that individuals and teams can use immediately and long term.

The Enneagram

The Enneagram is a tool for self-discovery and personal growth based on nine basic personality types. It accurately and clearly describes why one thinks, feels, and behaves in particular ways. The power of the Enneagram is in its ability to harness and transform self-limiting behaviors into life-enhancing personal empowerment.

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StrengthsFinder

The Clifton StrengthsFinder is a powerful assessment that helps individuals identify, understand, and maximize their strengths. All people have a unique combination of talents, knowledge, and skills—strengths—that they use in their daily lives to do their work, achieve their goals, and interact with others. When people understand and apply their strengths, the effect on their lives and work is transformational.

The Thinking Wavelength

This tool is used to help leaders identify and understand the blend of concrete and abstract thinkers that are on their team. It also helps the team openly discuss each other’s wavelengths in a safe environment which leads to camaraderie and team-building.

Enneagram Coaching & Workshops

What Is the Enneagram?

The Enneagram is a personality “mapping” system that identifies 9 different personality types.

In the late 1960s, being influenced by many of the ancient wisdom traditions, a teacher and philosopher named Oscar Ichazo developed the “modern” Enneagram and began teaching it in Chile. At Ichazo’s school, many religious, philosophy, and psychology leaders learned the system and eventually brought it back to the United States. Since then, thought leaders such as Richard Rohr, Don Riso, Russ Hudson, and others have brought contemporary learning and understanding to the Enneagram.

As one author put it, “The power of this system is its ability to accurately and clearly describe why one thinks, feels, and behaves in particular ways based upon core fears, desires, and motivations. Its value is in its ability to harness and transform self-limiting behaviors into life-enhancing personal empowerment.”

The Enneagram is based on nine personality types. Each type has a number associated with it. The four numbers to consider are:

One’s main type: This describes your main personality type. These numbers are labels, not rankings. There is no “better or worse” type.

Wings: The type on either side of the main type. The wing complements your main type and influences your total personality. Your wing is the “second side” of your personality, and it must be considered to better understand the whole person.

Security: The path one takes when feeling secure. From this number, we “draw” positive energy when we feel safe.

Stress: The path one takes when feeling stress. We move toward this number’s negative aspects when feeling stressed.

You can learn your Enneagram type by visiting the Enneagram Personality and Assessment site to purchase and take the test.

Overview of the Enneagram

At The Barzel Group, we have certified Enneagram coaches who provide coaching and workshops to businesses and nonprofit organizations across the country.

Who benefits from the Enneagram?

The benefit of the Enneagram is that it helps a person understand how they “see” the world and the core unconscious motivation behind their actions. With this information, we are better suited to consciously respond instead of subconsciously reacting when “life” happens.

This is of benefit to every person. Each team or social group is made up of individuals with unique sets of traits, strengths, and areas that need improvement. If each person can more fully understand those areas, they can then know better how to work towards building their team and contribute to success as a whole.

The Enneagram can be used to help each team member identify those unique areas (and blind spots), and help them develop new ways of communicating and collaborating.

Is the Enneagram better than Myers Briggs or other tests?

There are many assessments available today. Myers Briggs, StrengthsFinder, Kolbe, and DISC, to name a few. Most are effective tools that give the user solid data on understanding how they are "wired". Most of them measure the "cognitive", how a person receives, processes, and acts on information.

The uniqueness of the Enneagram is that it helps the user understand not only their “thinking” center but their “feeling” and “doing” centers as well. Knowing these centers helps the user drive into their core unconscious motivation, which answers the question: Why do I tend to do what I do?

Why would I learn about the Enneagram?

People usually take personality assessments to understand themselves better. Many of the assessments help people to better understand how they think. An Enneagram assessment and workshop can help people understand why they think, as well as why they feel and do. After obtaining this understanding, practical steps can be put in place to think, feel, and do in much more productive ways.

You may want to attend an Enneagram workshop to better understand yourself: how you are wired, the natural tendencies you have, and uncover the "why" behind what you do. It can offer invaluable clarity to help benefit your relationships and work, leading to success and peace.

Why do businesses need the Enneagram?

Businesses are struggling to find and retain good employees. One reason is that employees don’t feel they are being developed or invested in. By helping your staff learn the Enneagram, you help them to understand themselves, and their teammates. It’s one significant way to show that you are investing in developing your employees.

Businesses need the Enneagram for many reasons:

Self-awareness, which brings better performance to the workplace
Healthier staff relationships
The ability to have more understanding & empathy during conflict resolution
Awareness of others, which builds a positive staff culture
Common language and terms to use, making it easier to communicate

How can businesses benefit from Enneagram workshops?

Business may find these beneficial responses from learning more about the Enneagram:

Increased retention
Decreased conflict
Higher productivity
A healthy, positive staff culture
Personal development on-site

Using the Enneagram for Businesses

We offer Enneagram coaching or workshops as part of our coaching services packages. We can bring our workshop to your team or online via Zoom.

An Enneagram workshop is a facilitated group experience where participants get to learn about the Enneagram, learn how to discover their type, and learn practical methods for navigating through life and work based on their understanding of their type.

An Enneagram workshop starts with an introduction to the Enneagram, followed by helping participants determine their type. Afterward, we dive into the layers of the Enneagram including wings, triads, stances, and more. Workshops can be catered to the needs & desires of your organization.