Integrative Enneagram Solutions

Stress can have an enormous impact on an employee's productivity and overall well-being. Workplace stress has become a leading health challenge, and organisations are struggling to create environments that offer a healthy work-life balance. In the article below, we take a look at how the Enneagram was used to help a major organisation identify levels of stress and strain amongst their employees and teams, enabling them to thrive in today's competitive world.

Making a decision on what career you would like to pursue is an incredibly daunting task. To make things even worse, individuals are asked to make this decision at an age where they are only just beginning to understand themselves better! Enneagram coaching, however, can offer profound insight into not only where a person might succeed but also where they might find their purpose and flourish. In the article that follows, we examine how the Enneagram can help build an individuals’ self-awareness of what drives and motivates them, enabling more informed choices in their careers.

One of the key attributes of an effective leader is the ability to help their team members develop and fully leverage their strengths. Both the literature and practical research share the same findings; coaching enables leaders to impact performance in the most direct and meaningful way, as well as inspire greater agility, innovation, creativity, resilience and collaboration in others. Acting as both a leader and a coach is a difficult task, however. In the article that follows, we give practical solutions for the demanding task of developing others.

When leaders are under stress, facing demanding workloads and pressure to make decisions, they may overuse their gifts to the point that they become an inhibitor. In the article below, Dirk Cloete gives key insight into how each of the Enneagram Types can develop their blind spots and balance their leadership gifts in a way that brings out the strongest expression of their unique style.

The Enneagram has the potential to significantly accelerate and maximise investment in learning, leadership development, and coaching by connecting participants to the deepest levels of self-awareness. In the article that follows, we explore how the Enneagram might shed light on the ideal learning and development environments for each Enneagram Type, and give practical tips on how to support them at their best.

Mindfulness is a key development strategy for individuals and leaders in their quest to cope, thrive and compete in a fast-paced, agile world – and yet mindfulness practices, such as meditation, may not come easily to some of us! Casper Oelofsen offers specific strategies to overcome the hurdles experienced when practicing mindfulness techniques, for each Enneagram type.

By not taking human emotions and reactions into account when planning strategy, unintended consequences can derail initiatives. But when you integrate and align thinking, feeling and gut instinct, you gain an advantage in leadership, decision-making and execution, as well as in personal alignment and fulfilment. In the article that follows, Dirk Cloete explains the concept of Stacked Centers of Expression, and how they can play out in both your personal and professional life.

Does your personality stay the same throughout your lifetime? Yes and no. In the article that follows, we explain that while it’s not generally possible to change your core personality, learning how to access and ‘borrow’ positive traits from other personality types can add balance and depth to life. #selfdevelopment #enneagram #enneagramcoaching #proffesionaldevelopment

Have you had trouble correctly identifying your Enneagram Type? Some individuals find it much easier to find themselves on the Enneagram, while others may take a while longer and need guidance as they find the Type that they most resonate with. In the article that follows, we investigate the fascinating phenomenon of Enneagram lookalikes: personality types that mirror each other in uncanny ways. We'll explore the subtle nuances that set them apart, simply by focusing on motivation instead of behaviour.