Enneagram as a Leadership Tool 101 Video Course
A foundational, 50-minute course designed for those early in their Enneagram journey. This course offers an overview of the Enneagram’s history, structure, tips for how to use the platform effectively, plus a description of each type. It also covers a few suggestions for how to approach working with each Ennea-type.
Learn your unique leadership style through our foundations course and take the first step in infusing the Enneagram in your leadership.
Sneak Peek: Watch the Introduction
The Enneagram as a Leadership Tool 101
Helping leaders unlock emotional intelligence and lead with greater insight and impact.
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Introduction
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Introduction
Welcome to Sway's course, Enneagram as a Leadership Tool 101! This course provides insight into how people interact with the world and the workplace using the Enneagram for self-development.
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The Mood Board (optional)
The mood board project is an opportunity to analyze your "interior world" and reflect on your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to work.
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The Enneagram
The Enneagram focuses on a person's motives, fears, and thinking patterns. It provides language for involuntary life responses and blind spots, which is important for becoming an emotionally intelligent leader.
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The Enneagram as a Map
The Enneagram is a map that teaches us we do not have to stay stagnant in one area, but that we can grow. It is most helpful for understanding oneself, which is the starting point for understanding others.
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Ethics and Etiquette
When using the Enneagram tool, we should not overemphasize its importance or use it as a badge or an excuse for our behavior. We should also be respectful and refrain from typing other people.
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How to Find Your Core Enneagram
Humans can embody all the behaviors and characteristics of the nine different types. However, knowing the type we lead with gives insight into how we show up in leadership and how we can grow. The next nine lessons describes each Enneagram type.
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Body Types
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Heart Types
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Head Types
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Closing
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Enneagram Journey
The journey begins with discovery, which involves learning about the system and realizing that the personality assessment speaks a truth about you that you couldn't articulate before. Next, we move to self-reflection and discerning how to apply what we’ve learned to develop our leadership skills.
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The Mood Board Wrap (optional)
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Next Steps
This course is a starting point. In the final lesson, we share our recommendations for your continued growth journey.
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About This Course
Throughout history the most influential leaders have utilized self-knowledge tools which have gotten them to the next level of leading. You may be wondering, "What is that tool for me? Does it really make a difference? Should I bring the Enneagram into my organization? If so, what are the outcomes?”
Well, the short answer is yes, you probably should. A great first step is learning what this framework is about and how to apply it. Hundreds of companies around the U.S. and more around the globe are finding that this tool leads to higher workplace satisfaction, productivity, and collaboration. This bears out in our experience where our findings indicate that the Enneagram is the single most beneficial tool for the long-term health of multi-level organizations.
From an organizational perspective, here are the benefits we see from introducing the Enneagram:
Helps you and your team members through conflict
Aids in finding greater meaning and productivity in your work
As a managerial connection point
Breaks leaders beyond their current molds
This short, 50 minute course is built for those new to Enneagram who want to know how to use it effectively, learn what their type is, ways to work effectively with each of nine ennea-types, and an overview of its history and structure.
What You’ll Learn
Ways to Become a Better Leader Using the Enneagram
Learn about your type, including some of the strengths and blindspots which hold us all back.
Tips for Working with Other Ennea-types at Your Organization
Best practices for approaching work with others.
How to Find Your Enneagram Type
Unlike many personality frameworks, your Enneagram type is self-identified.
Context for the Enneagram
Learn what it is, where it came from, how it’s structured and how it works.
Next Steps for Your Leadership Journey
Recommended resources for further exploration.
Note from the Course Facilitator
Ashlee, here. I am the CEO of Sway and Enneagram teacher. I first learned about this tool in 2011, and since then it has been serving me as a powerful resource in my both my personal and professional life. I went on to study at the CP Enneagram Academy and founded the Nine Shapes Project, which is a container to facilitate meaningful conversations.
The Nine Shapes Enneagram
During this course, we use these Nine Shapes as a visual aid to guide us around this personality framework as we explore nine unique types of leadership. The shapes came about as a way to be more curious about ourselves and those around us. Instead of boxing people in based on personality, the diverse shapes invite us to explore the truth that we as humans are all oddly similar and yet starkly different.
–Ashlee, Owner + Team Development Coach at Sway
Created for you by
Ashlee Sikorski
Team Development Coach
Sway Leadership & Nine Shapes
Leah Lavelle
Visual Storyteller
Urban Wild Studio & Urban Wild Studio Supply