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Introduction
The introduction describes the emergence of coaching as a premier development approach; how the Enneagram provides managers, mentors, and coaches a powerful, effective, and targeting approach to coaching; and an overview of the book's structure.

Chapter 1: Coaching Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the eight steps managers, mentors, and coaches need to take to excel in developing others: (1) assessing and enhancing their coaching competence; (2) optimizing the match between the developer (coach) and learner (client); (3) clarifying the coaching role – manager, mentor, or coach; (4) selecting the appropriate coaching methodology – short-term, crisis, or long-term coaching; (5) identifying the learner's coaching goals and motivation; (6) assessing the learner's self-mastery level and using level-appropriate techniques; (7) using techniques that challenge learners; and (8) accelerating and sustaining the learner's transformation.

Chapter 2: The Enneagram and Coaching
With an overview of Enneagram theory and how this relates to coaching, this chapter provides a context for understanding the nine Enneagram styles, which are described in great detail in Chapters 3-11. In addition, the core coaching concerns of all Enneagram styles are highlighted: issues of anxiety, trust, and overnalysis that arise from our Mental Center; concerns about the coaching relationship, the value and prestige of the coach and coaching, and the reactions of others that arise from our Emotional Center; and concerns regarding action, control, and honesty and clarity that emerge from the Body Center.

Chapter 3: Enneagram Style One
After an in-depth description of Enneagram style Ones (including information about subtypes, wings, and arrows), this chapter shows developers exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 4: Enneagram Style Two
After an in-depth description of Enneagram style Twos (including information about subtypes, wings, and arrows), this chapter shows developers exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 5: Enneagram Style Three
After an in-depth description of Enneagram style Threes (including information about subtypes, wings, and arrows), this chapter shows developers exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 6: Enneagram Style Four
After an in-depth description of Enneagram style Fours (including information about subtypes, wings, and arrows), this chapter shows developers exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 7: Enneagram Style Five
After an in-depth description of Enneagram style Fives (including information about subtypes, wings, and arrows), this chapter shows developers exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 8: Enneagram Style Six
rs exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 9: Enneagram Style Seven
After an in-depth description of Enneagram style Sevens (including information about subtypes, wings, and arrows), this chapter shows developers exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 10: Enneagram Style Eight
After an in-depth description of Enneagram style Eights (including information about subtypes, wings, and arrows), this chapter shows developers exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 11: Enneagram Style Nine
After an in-depth description of Enneagram style Nines (including information about subtypes, wings, and arrows), this chapter shows developers exactly how to best coach individuals of this style using the approaches and techniques from Chapter 1. Examples, stories, and case studies are provided, as well as high-impact development activities.

Chapter 12: Transformation
This chapter shows developers how to take their coaching to a deeper level by providing them with three transformative coaching activities and an integrated development planning process.

Appendices
The appendices contain a coaching competency self-assessment and detailed information about short-term, crisis, and long-term coaching methodologies.

Resources
The Resources section provides annotated information about where to find online and print resources in the following areas: Enneagram-based development activities; Enneagram training materials; Enneagram training certificate programs; and recommended books on the topics of coaching, the Enneagram, and the Enneagram and spirituality.


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Business Leaders

Todd Pierce
Vice President, Corporate Information Technology, Genentech, Inc.

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Teresa Roche
Agilent Technologies

Carolyne Coquet
Cartier Haute Joaillerie

Nancy Brooks
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Erin Ganju
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Enneagram Teachers

Helen Palmer
Author of The Enneagram and The Enneagram in Love and Work

Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
The Enneagram Institute, authors of Personality Types and The Wisdom of the Enneagram

David Daniels, M.D.
Co-author of The Essential Enneagram, co-founder of the Enneagram Professional Training Program, and clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford Medical School

Thomas Condon
Author of The Enneagram Movie & Video Guide

Jerome Wagner, Ph.D.
Author of The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles

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Beverly Kaye, Ph.D.
Founder/CEO of Career Systems International and co-author of the internationally best-selling Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

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New Ventures West and author of________


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Foreword by Helen Palmer
Helen Palmer is the author of five books on human consciousness, including two international best sellers - The Enneagram and The Enneagram in Love & Work. Together with David Daniels, M.D., she conducts public workshops and professional trainings through The Trifold School for Enneagram Studies.

The Enneagram is arguably the oldest human development system on the planet, and like all authentic maps of consciousness, it finds new life in the conceptual worldview of each succeeding generation. Because of its enduring value, the Enneagram map has moved through time like seed that blossoms in the cracks of human history when it is needed. Then it goes dormant again, lying unnoticed in plain sight, often for protracted periods of time, as public attention turns elsewhere.

I'm especially delighted that Dr. Lapid-Bogda's book positions the Enneagram in the language and framework of contemporary organizations. In doing so, she creates a context in which terms like "professional development, conflict management, and high performance teamwork" seem comfortably at home within a map of human evolution.

Drawing from an impressive background of OD and consultancy experience, she writes for those of us who work in today's pressure cooker of rapid change and quick decisions weighted with lasting consequences. Her skill lies in quietly directing attention to the inner patterns that impede our working well with each other. And rather than focus on outer behaviors, she skillfully shows the reader how each type is inwardly organized to participate in key areas of business activity.

Most of us wouldn't think of going to work every day as a professional development program, yet our patterns are constantly triggered by the job and the people around us. You'll find that knowing your type will help you to recognize when automatic patterns start to engage. Sixes for instance, can tell when their thinking becomes doubtful, and Sevens will recognize a flood of interesting plans. Nines may find themselves suddenly waking up to discover their attention has wandered off, and so on for all nine profiles.

All of this is encouraging, because you can recognize your two selves. The self that acts on automatic, and a secondary aspect of yourself that can watch the mechanics of your own mind. In our time, there is practically no education for the observing self, yet you will be using witnessing consciousness (self-observation) to discover your type, and later on - to recognize and relax the patterns that do not bring out your best in the key areas of work described in this book.

The Enneagram originally came about as a map to assist self-observation. Its power still lies in "educating" the observing self that is already free of automatic conditioning. At a time when corporate survival depends on working cooperatively with each other, history's oldest professional development tool is being renewed because we need to understand each other's point of view.

One commonly asked question about the system is "which type is most suitable for a specific job?" or "How can we build an ideal team?" And the answer is "Find mature human beings." People aren't hired for their type. They are hired for their skills, their creativity, past experience, and whether they act like grown ups. This book is an excellent guide for understanding how different types of people can learn to communicate effectively, perform well on teams, manage conflict and lead with compassion. The way to use the Enneagram system for success in these key areas, is by way of knowing yourself and others as they actually are, which as the title suggests, brings out the best in ourselves at work.


Table of Contents

Introduction The introduction explains the book's purpose and structure, describes the Enneagram's roots and applications, and provides a perspective on the evolving fields of management theory and organization development.

Chapter 1: Discovering Your Enneagram Style
The first chapter, "Discovering Your Enneagram Style," contains exercises and conceptual models to help readers identify their Enneagram styles. Readers begin their self-assessment with two warm-up exercises and then move to an activity in which they rank-order nine different paragraphs — each paragraph describing a different Enneagram style — in order to determine which style best matches their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Readers then learn additional information about the Enneagram system as a way to further clarify which style best describes them.

Chapter 2: Communicating Effectively
This chapter explains how to remove the communication barriers associated with each Enneagram style — when either sending messages (speaking style, body language, and blind spots), or when listening to others. The Enneagram style-based patterns of communication are demonstrated through real stories about people of each Enneagram style, followed by a detailed analysis of that person's behavior. The chapter concludes with specific exercises for improving communication with others.

Chapter 3: Giving Constructive Feedback
This chapter describes the what, why, and how of giving constructive feedback. The first section of the chapter provides examples of how individuals of each Enneagram style may err when giving feedback to someone else, regardless of the recipient's Enneagram style. The second section of the chapter provides a clear and effective technique for giving feedback to anyone, regardless of Enneagram style — the Feedback Formula. Finally, the chapter reviews how to adjust the Feedback Formula to individuals of each Enneagram style.

Chapter 4: Managing Conflict
Through nine different stories, this chapter explains the following: (1) how to dramatically improve your ability to manage your reactions during conflict in order to keep most interpersonal conflict from occurring or escalating, and (2) how to tailor your conflict resolution approach to the Enneagram style of the other person. Using the "pinch-crunch conflict model," the chapter identifies the anger triggers ("pinches") and conflict-related behavior typical of each Enneagram style, provides instruction for approaching individuals of these styles during conflict ("crunches"), and offers specific methods for using your pinches and crunches as opportunities for your own self-awareness and growth.

Chapter 5: Creating High-Performing Teams
This chapter describes how to create high-performing teams. Using a real team case study, this chapter explains and analyzes how individuals of each Enneagram style behave on teams, using the following team frameworks:

• Team goals
• Team interdependence
• Task and relationship roles of team members
• Individual behavior during the four team development stages – Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing

The chapter concludes with specific activities for using this information to create high-performing teams.

Chapter 6: Leveraging Your Leadership
This chapter shows how to bring out the strongest leadership skills for each Enneagram style by examining the following:

• Leadership paradigms – nine worldviews based on assumptions and beliefs that influence how we behave and what we tend to overlook
• Leadership strengths of each style
• Leadership derailers – weaknesses, directly related to Enneagram style, that often impede a leader's success
• Descriptions of how the leadership strengths of each Enneagram style, when used to excess, become leadership weaknesses
• Analyses of the common leadership behaviors of each style
• Three ways leaders of each style can dramatically improve their leadership performance

Chapter 7: Transforming Yourself
"Transforming Yourself" provides a total of five developmental activities specifically designed for each Enneagram style – three for daily use, one for changing style-based mental patterns, and one for transforming style-based emotional habits. These activities and exercises are easy to understand and follow.

Resources
"Resources" is a bibliography with a select list of books and websites for both the Enneagram and the behavioral sciences. (See Bibliography in About the Enneagram section of this website)


Endorsements

Enneagram Teachers


Claudio Naranjo, M.D.
Enneagram pioneer and author of Character and Neurosis: An Integrative View

This is the first Enneagram book that I have endorsed. The Enneagram typology is a powerful tool for self-understanding, which is, in turn, the gist of emotional healing and a major factor in personal evolution. And here is a good book undertaking to bring the Enneagram to the business world at a time when it has become apparent that the business world controls the world and that our fate depends on the psycho-spiritual condition of those in it.

Don Riso and Russ Hudson
Founders of THE ENNEAGRAM INSTITUTE and authors of the bestselling The Wisdom of the Enneagram and Personality Types

This solid, well-written book will be of interest to those new to the Enneagram and to people who already know the system and are looking for ways to apply it in the business world. The author gives clear, sensible information about how each type thinks and behaves — as well as its assets and short-comings — in the most practical business situations — from communicating, giving feedback, and dealing with conflict, to teambuilding and leadership. Avoiding business jargon, it succeeds in being fresh and graceful, and from an author who clearly cares about how to help people become their best in a world that is too often impersonal and dehumanizing.

David N. Daniels, M.D.
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Medical School and author of the bestselling book, The Essential Enneagram

This well written, practical, and clear book moves the Enneagram teachings significantly forward into the world of business applications. Dr. Lapid-Bogda provides both rich examples and meaningful insights in bringing the Enneagram into any organization. She masterfully interweaves her vast experience in organizational problem solving, executive coaching, leadership development, effective communications, and conflict management with her deep knowledge and respect for the Enneagram system. Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work reflects Ginger's dedication, warmth, and powerful mind. This is a vital read for anyone interfacing the Enneagram with organizations.

Kathy Hurley and Theodorre Donson
Co-authors of the bestselling What's My Type? and creators of The Enneagram of Transformation® Certification and Training Program

We are impressed! Entertaining, knowledgeable, readable, and insightful, Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work is replete with stories, examples and applications of how the nine Enneagram types operate in the workplace. Ginger Lapid-Bogda has observed carefully how people of each type think, feel and behave, and she encourages her readers similarly to observe themselves for self-improvement. Her style is fresh, light and bright.

Thomas Condon
Enneagram teacher and author of The Enneagram Movie & Video Guide

A winner! This book is both a solid accessible introduction to the Enneagram and a fine overview of the system's applications at work. It is useful at every turn, offering many practical suggestions to successfully enhance communication and resolve conflicts. Full of real-world examples, Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work also offers detailed advice on how to apply the Enneagram to team building and effective leadership. Use it to change old patterns and succeed at new challenges.

Jerome P. Wagner, Ph.D.
Internationally known Enneagram teacher and author of The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles

I've known Ginger as a lively savvy presenter; now I know her as a clear persuasive writer. She's done a fine job of taking critical consulting areas such as communicating effectively, managing conflict, creating high-performance teams, developing leadership, etc. and running them through the filter of the nine Enneagram personality styles, showing how these general concepts appear at work in nine different epiphanies. Her book will make an oft-consulted, very useful contribution to both the business and Enneagram communities.

Michael J. Goldberg, J.D.
Organizational consultant and author of The 9 Ways of Working

A fine book about bringing the Enneagram to business, filled with many useful, real world examples. Anyone who works with people should read this book!

Organization Development Consultants


W. Warner Burke, Ph.D.
Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology & Education, Teacher's College, Columbia University, First Executive Director of the Organization Development Network, and author of Organization Change: Theory and Practice

There is growing evidence that people who are above average regarding self- awareness are likely to be high performers, particularly with respect to leadership and management. The Enneagram is a sound, tried and true technique for enhancing one's self-awareness. This book is very user friendly in this regard because Ginger Lapid-Bogda's explanation and interpretation of the Enneagram way of learning more about one's self is unsurpassed. I enthusiastically recommend taking the trip with her.

Beverly Kaye, Ph.D.
Founder/CEO of Career Systems International and co-author of the internationally best-selling Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

Thank you, Ginger. You've given us a way to unravel one of life's biggest mysteries — how to communicate clearly with the important people in our lives. You took a complex system and made it accessible and useful to your readers. This is a superb practical tool for all professionals who are determined to improve their working relationships with customers, clients, bosses, co-workers or direct reports. Her explanation of the Enneagram makes it exceedingly accessible to the lay-person, and the exercises in the book give her readers a chance for actual skill practice! A must have for your 'go-to' bookshelf.

Saul Eisen, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Founder, Graduate Program in Organization Development, Sonoma State University

In this remarkable book, Ginger Lapid-Bogda clearly communicates the essence of the Enneagram, and its practical applications for effective leadership in organizations. As a colleague in a range of projects with her, I have long admired her competence and grace as a teacher, trainer, and consultant. I'm delighted to see this material become widely available for people who seek a deeper understanding of the dynamics of interpersonal and team behavior. They will find that, and more — a transformative perspective for their own development as leaders, professionals, and persons. The illustrative stories, short activities, and crisp, accessible explanations make this a resource book readers will return to again and again — and recommend to their friends!

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The Enneagram Development Guide is designed for people who are seriously committed to development, both their own and others they guide in this process. It was created with the following individuals in mind: those who want to use the Enneagram for their own growth and continuous learning; managers who are responsible for developing others and want effective development activities to suggest to those who work for them; and coaches who use the Enneagram and want a selection of development activities for clients of each style that target specific development areas.

This development guide is divided into ten sections – one for each style, with over 50 development activities tailored to that style. The tenth section includes additional developmental activities that are useful for everyone.

The activities in each section cover the following topics:

• Self-Mastery
  Includes basic and deeper activities and how to use wings and arrows for development


• Communication
  Includes type-based communication styles; how to change aspects of your speaking style, body language, blind spots, and listening filers that distort what is heard; and how to use e-mails as a development tool


• Feedback
  Includes how to enhance your ability to give effective feedback and how to be more receptive to feedback when it is given to you


• Conflict
  Includes conflict triggers for your style and how to use your reactions to conflict as opportunities for growth


• Teams
  Includes how team members can enhance team performance at the four stages of team development – forming, storming, norming, and performing – and how to expand their most common task- and relationship-based team behaviors; includes specific development activities for team leaders


• Leadership
  Includes three development activities specifically targeted to expand your Enneagram-based leadership style


• Results Orientation
  Includes activities to help you drive for results effectively without going into overdrive


• Strategy
  Includes activities to help you think and act strategically


• Decision Making
  Includes how to expand your three Centers of Intelligence in decision making


• Organizational Change
  Includes activities that take you beyond managing change to becoming a change leader


• Transformation
  Includes activities that transform our mental and emotional patterns from reactive habits to expanded opportunities

To easily find the activities, you can use the book in any of the following ways:

• Locate the Enneagram style and area for development in the table of contents or at the start of each section. This will give you the page number.


• Go to the colored divider for the Enneagram style of your interest, look through this section, and find the development topic that will be most useful.


• Thumb through the pages and find what you are looking for by reading the notation on the outer edge of each page. This indicates both the style and the development topic area on that page.

Coaches describe The Enneagram Development Guide as "pure gold." Managers eventually buy more than one copy because they have "dog-eared" so many pages and written so many reminders to themselves in the book.

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Introduction
The introduction explains why leadership excellence remains such a mystery to many organizations, provides an overview of the seven core leadership competencies in the book, and challenges the reader to take the path of extreme leadership growth

Chapter 1: What Type Are You?
Using descriptions of the nine Enneagram styles, complete with checklists and self-reflection questions, this chapter enables most readers to identify their Enneagram style. The inclusion of information on wings and stress-security points for each Enneagram style and how these may affect a person's personality further refines the accurate identification of type.

Chapter 2: Drive for Results
Because leaders at all organizational levels must learn to drive for results, the book begins with the six components of this core competency, emphasizing that leaders must focus not only on the ultimate goal or result to achieve excellent results, but also organize their work units for maximum effectiveness and oversee this process throughout. The strengths and developments areas for individuals of each Enneagram style are then discussed, with three development stretches for leaders of each style. Chapter 3: Strive for Self-Mastery
Self-mastery provides the inner core from which all self-development work must start. Individuals of the same Enneagram may be at different levels of self-mastery – the ability to understand, accept, and transform your thoughts, feelings, and behavior. This chapter explains how individuals of each style think, feel, and behave at the three levels of self-mastery – low, moderate, and extreme self-mastery – and includes three development stretches for individuals of each style that enable them to increase their self-mastery.

Chapter 4: Know the Business: Think and Act Strategically
Leaders at all levels need to know the business and then use this information to think and act strategically. This chapter explores the six components of knowing the business and the five components of thinking and acting strategically. The strengths and developments areas for individuals of each Enneagram style are then discussed, with three development stretches for leaders of each style.

Chapter 5: Become an Excellent Communicator
Every leader must communicate daily to all kinds of people and using multiple media. This chapter reviews the six competency components of becoming an excellent communicator: creating genuine relationships, communicating clearly, listening fully, giving effective feedback, managing conflict, and influencing others. The strengths and developments areas for individuals of each Enneagram style are then discussed, and real e-mails are used and analyzed in order to illustrate how individuals of each Enneagram communicate. Each e-mail is then rewritten as a development stretch, according to tips for enhancing the communication.

Chapter 6: Lead High-Performing Teams
Leading high-performing teams is a crucial competency for today's leaders. This chapter examines the multiple components of team leadership. The strengths and developments areas for individuals of each Enneagram style are then discussed, with three development stretches for leaders of each style.

Chapter 7: Make Optimal Decisions
Leaders make decisions daily, but how do they go about making wise decisions? This chapter approaches decision making from the perspective of a leader's ability to make wise decisions by developing one's capacity to effectively utilize reason (the head), emotions (the heart), and instinct (the gut or body). The pattern by which leaders of each style use their head, heart, and gut is described as is their use of the three critical organizational factors – the culture, the decision-making authority structure, and the context of the decision. The strengths and developments areas for individuals of each Enneagram style are then explained, with three stretches for developing each Center of Intelligence – the head, heart, and gut – for a total of nine stretches per style.

Chapter 8: Take Charge of Change
Change has become a way of life in organizations. Consequently, leaders at all levels must be capable of effectively taking charge of change. This chapter describes how to both manage and lead change, discusses how leaders of each Enneagram style have both strengths and developments areas, and provides three development stretches for leaders of each style.

Resources
The Resources section lists a minimum of four excellent books for each book chapter.


Endorsements

Business Leaders

Todd Pierce
Vice President, Corporate Information Technology, Genentech, Inc.

No other approach to leadership growth is as accessible, relevant, and powerful as the path-breaking framework provided in What Type of Leader Are You? I have shared this approach with my leadership team, and I've observed breakthroughs by dozens of leaders. Ginger Lapid-Bogda's integration of the Enneagram with the seven critical leadership competencies is brilliant. Her methods enable you to increase self-awareness while also acquiring the concrete tools and emotional energy you need to become the leader you really want to be. I have seen this book change lives – it certainly has changed mine.

Colleen Gentry
Senior Vice President for Executive Development, Wachovia Corporation

Ginger's newest book is a practical tool for executives interested in real evolution as leaders. The information in What Type of Leader Are You? is pragmatic and results focused, and it doesn't shortchange the underlying depth of the Enneagram as a tool for transformation. In this book, Ginger offers a unique combination of business savvy, organization development, and in-depth self-development perspectives. Her solid understanding of today's business environment makes the book a tool that leaders can use repeatedly to enrich and expand their capabilities, turning already effective leaders into truly influential ones.

Chad Jorgensen
Managing Director, NU-EAR Electronics, Inc.

What Type of Leader Are You? creates a crucial bridge between big business and the Enneagram. Ginger's latest book is designed for the true professional: she applies the Enneagram to mainstream business applications through competencies such as Leadership Self-Mastery, Know the Business: Think and Act Strategically, and Make Optimal Business Decisions. Not only do readers learn about their leadership characteristics, but they're also provided with self-assessment exercises and Enneagram style-specific development recommendations for each competency area. As the managing director of one of the nation's leading hearing health care manufacturers, I recommend What Type of Leader Are You? and can't wait until Ginger creates training classes for this material. I will be filling her courses with enthusiastic employees.

Sara Isabel Behmer
Human Resources Executive Director, AVON Cosmetics, Ltd.

To be a great leader is a desire of all executives, but it is a challenge for many. This book is like a treasure map that shows the nine different ways to reach excellence in leadership. Enjoy this journey!

Pravit Chitnarapong
President and CEO, Black Canyon Coffee Co. (Thailand), Ltd.

What Type of Leader Are You? is different from other Enneagram books in that it describes real life leadership lessons and provides practical and concrete guidelines, diagrams, and examples, all of which are very useful and apply to business life. I highly recommend that leaders at all levels of management read this book if they want to create winning teams in their organizations.

Nuala Ahern
Former member of the European Parliament (Ireland)

Ginger Lapid-Bogda's new book makes a vital contribution to the area of developing successful leadership skills. What Type of Leader Are You? is an essential book for people in leadership positions who wish to develop and raise the level of their true capabilities. The huge pressures and global challenges facing today's leaders make excellence in leadership critical to the success of any enterprise. This book is a superb tool for working with people of different cultures with intelligence and understanding.

Enneagram Teachers

Helen Palmer
Author of The Enneagram and The Enneagram in Love and Work
Dr. Lapid-Bogda adroitly describes how different types of people fulfill the core competencies of leadership in their own ways. Through the lens of the Enneagram, she directs our attention back to ourselves, and in a remarkably evenhanded and constructive way creates nine professional development programs, each anchored in self-observation and mindfulness of our own internal patterns. Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
The Enneagram Institute, authors of Personality Types and The Wisdom of the Enneagram

We recommend this book for anyone in leadership wishing to use the superbly insightful tool of the Enneagram to access their innate gifts, identify their biases, and become truly great leaders.

David Daniels, M.D.
Co-author of The Essential Enneagram, co-founder of the Enneagram Professional Training Program, and clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford Medical School

Ginger Lapid-Bogda has once again come up with an outstanding work. What Type of Leader Are You? is practical, insightful, thoughtful, and specific. Ginger covers all aspects of leadership, from business practices to leadership skills and people skills, and she offers a rich array of vignettes, examples, and exercises. Each chapter is virtually a book in itself. What Ginger achieves in this book is an integration of Enneagram understandings and business practices, which alone would make the book well worth reading.

Thomas Condon
Author of The Enneagram Movie & Video Guide

An excellent book that focuses the Enneagram's powerful insights on understanding and improving the reader's natural style of leadership. Filled with boots-on-the-ground examples, What Type of Leader Are You? is not just for leaders but for anyone who wants to grow and excel. It will help you identify and stretch your core competencies and natural talents, both on the job and off.

Jerome Wagner, Ph.D.
Author of The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles

Ginger has waved her creative wand over what is known about effective leadership skills and what the Enneagram says about nine personality styles, and out has popped this very readable brew of both. If you want to be a conscious leader, this book will wake you up.

Organization Development Consultants

Beverly Kaye, Ph.D.
Founder/CEO of Career Systems International and co-author of the internationally best-selling Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

If you are a leader and think you've seen your share of books on this subject, don't stop until you've added this to your collection. Clearly, Ginger Lapid-Bogda has deep experience in coaching and consulting to a wide variety of leaders and their teams. Her sound advice is based on years of practice and strong theory, and this book is chock-full of excellent suggestions and astute examples that amplify her points and provide readers with a multitude of teachable moments.

Cresencio Torres, Ph.D.
Senior Enterprise Associate, Center for Creative Leadership

I have been reading this book with complete interest and amazement. What Type of Leader Are You? contains a unique combination of both Eastern and Western perspectives on leadership essence and development. Ginger Lapid-Bogda has contributed a culturally relevant view of what constitutes leadership success – self-awareness, interpersonal relationships, and business savvy. She illustrates her ideas in a practical, compelling, and straightforward way. The nine Enneagram styles and related leadership competencies identify strengths and opportunities that are specific, achievable, and relevant to the business of leadership development. I strongly recommend the book to anyone on the leadership journey.

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