The Enneagram in Business
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Executive Coaching with the Enneagram

One-on-one development for organizational managers, leaders, and other key contributors

The Enneagram is unparalleled in its ability to help coaching clients understand themselves, their impact on others, and their leadership styles. In coaching relationships, the Enneagram is used in the context of helping clients to increase their organizational effectiveness in the interpersonal arena and in other areas as well — for example, delegating effectively, creating high-performing teams, thinking strategically, staying focused on strategic objectives and critical tasks, organizing work groups efficiently, and dealing with power and authority.

Clients learn the Enneagram early in the coaching process and integrate this information with other sources of data about the client, such as individual interviews with the client's subordinates, managers, and/or peers; observations by the coach; and/or 360º feedback. The coach works with the client to analyze, understand, and work with the data with the following objectives in mind: (1) the organization's goals for the client, (2) the client's own goals, and (3) new goals that may emerge after a review of the information gathered from interviews, surveys, and observations.

Chapter 7 of Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work, "Transforming Yourself," describes some of the activities clients may be asked to do as part of the coaching experience.

There are two options for the coaching process; clients can choose either alternative or a combination of the two.