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WHY THE ENNEAGRAM?
SO MANY MODELS … YET SO
FEW ANSWERS!
Hilary is a highly respected consultant, who has spent a professional
lifetime, working with organizations using almost every model that
has become available, to promote understanding and address people
issues. She has worked with TQM, MBTI, Belbin, FIRO, Kepner-Tregoe,
Psychodrama, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis etc. etc. None of them
has the power of the enneagram.
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Prior to knowing the enneagram, it was often difficult
to get to the core of many issues and find lasting solutions!
- Why did leaders fail to understand and motivate their staff
into producing consistently excellent results?
- Why did so many people in organizations stew with frustration,
finding the behaviours of others incomprehensible and intolerable?
- Why was it so hard for team members to develop mutual respect,
build on each others’ strengths, and welcome a wide
range of individual differences?
- Why did people and teams get into on-going conflicts that
were sometimes almost impossible to unravel?
- Why did some people become angry, inflexible and unhappily
stuck, in their work and interactions, to the detriment of
all?
- Why did organizations so often lose excellent people, who
never felt understood by their managers?
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ASK YOURSELF ….
“Despite the huge investments of time and money by your organization
into leadership and staff development, why do so many people fall
into the same old traps they have always fallen in to?”
ANSWER ….
“Because none of the existing models uncover the hidden
drivers of our behaviour. Everything starts with knowing this. If
we don’t know this, we will never understand and change ourselves
or others!”
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Without the enneagram, we will keep hearing people say “people
are our greatest resource”. But leaders and teams will
never truly capitalize on this resource, creating consistently
productive and well-motivated work teams, until they deeply
understand the basics : What Drives People …. and What
Drives Me?
After Hilary embraced the enneagram as a key method
of intervening in organizational issues, speedy, wide-reaching,
long-term results were achieved!
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With the insights available through the enneagram,
people see exactly what is happening and can immediately change
their, and others’, patterns of acting and reacting! Organizational
issues can now be deeply understood and resolved! The enneagram
allows people to get “to the guts” of even the most
entrenched, and previously unsolvable, issues and address them at
last. It reaches the mind, heart and soul of people!
Organizational managers and staff who
have worked with Hilary Langford are saying :
“The two days were riveting, stimulating
and helpful. While I have found other personality profiling tools
interesting and quite helpful at times, they pale in comparison
to the power of this new model. For me it was like someone turning
on a light bulb. Things that had been puzzling or troubling me suddenly
made sense. I was armed with a new wisdom to guide me forward in
my daily work.”
“Who needs conflict resolution tools,
when you have the enneagram? By developing a deep understanding
between people, the enneagram provides the knowledge to prevent
disputes from developing, rather than offering merely a cure.”
“Listening to participants of my type
talk about their strengths and areas for improvement proved to be
invaluable. By the end of the second day I was absolutely clear
about my goal. I lost no time in putting my newly discovered wisdom
into practice and was astounded. Not only did it actually work for
me, but it also gave me a deeper understanding of all my behaviours
in relationships. I recommend this to anyone interested in being
truly human!”
“While some of the content is fairly
confronting, it is also very liberating. It is not for the faint-hearted.
But if you are game, it provides the kind of insights that really
makes a difference in the way you choose to live your life –
at work and at home.”
“A fascinating insight into the person
I have become. This goes far beyond the job. It will help me live
the rest of my life. Thank-you. Thank-you. Thank-you.”
HOW ?
The enneagram is the most powerful and insightful tool yet
for understanding teams, leadership, and human behaviour.
It describes nine distinctly different
personality profiles, revealing the driver behind everything we
do. It tells us who we really are! The enneagram also reveals the
hidden behaviour patterns that hold people back at work, and in
their day to day interactions.
The enneagram extends far beyond other personality
type descriptions (like MBTI). It gets to the very heart of how
we work, and the strengths and talents we offer each other and our
organizations. It also confronts us by identifying our compulsive
self-defeating patterns that are in our “blind spots”!
Once people and teams understand the enneagram, they
discover their :
- deepest motivations;
- habitual patterns, both helpful and unhelpful;
- strengths, skills & talents; as well as their
- resistances, blind spots, preoccupations & limitations. |
When these are clear, people and teams can solve
the problems that have been on-going barriers to productivity and
satisfaction in their working lives.
Scary to get into this territory? Maybe ... but
immensely rewarding, and useful if the leader or the team wants
a solid foundation from which to be consistently effective!
So, where did the enneagram come
from?
The enneagram has been developing for over two
thousand years, being passed down and embellished by those communities
who study the human condition. It existed before, and will continue
to be useful long after, many of the “flavour of the month”
techniques and tools have been forgotten! It provides an incredibly
rich understanding of human behaviour captured in a wisdom that
has stood the test of time.
In the past few decades, the enneagram has been
rediscovered and adopted by organizational practitioners around
the world and is “state-of-the-art” in executive coaching,
leadership, team & staff development. It is the most complete
way of knowing ourselves, and what we can contribute as leaders
and as team members.
SO WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU USE THE ENNEAGRAM TO ADDRESS PEOPLE
ISSUES?
As your enneagram type is driving what you are
thinking and doing, every minute of every day, it’s invaluable
knowing how you are different from others around you. With the enneagram
at your fingertips, you can break free of your compulsive behaviours.
You will be more productive, a better leader or team member, a more
effective communicator, and far more skilful in developing others.
You will also find that coming to work each day
is far more satisfying, as many of the intransigent people-issues
CAN be solved!
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