The Enneagram In Business - Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD

August | 2010
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AT A GLANCE...
MONTHLY INSIGHT: DISCERNMENT

Each Newsletter starts with the Monthly Insight, one that connects to my blog for details and development ideas about the 9 Enneagram styles; the August insight topic is Discernment.

 
This blog was inspired by Ruth Landis's insights about Discernment, "the ability to judge well." The emphasis here is on well, not judge! Discernment is a tricky concept because our judgments often hamper our development, but true discernment actually advances it. Without discernment, we don't realize there are forks in the road and that everything is a choice. With discern- ment, we recognize the real choices that are open to us and take full responsibility for the paths that we choose. It's really about the wisdom to make effective choices.

You can read about how each of us, based on our Enneagram styles, can allow more Discernment in our lives. Ruth Landis is a Senior Member of the Enneagram in Business Network at TheEnneagramInBusiness.com.

We discern through observation and slowing down enough to see what choices we have available to us in each moment, rather that responding automatically and habitually. Today, try slowing down and experiment playing with your attention like you might with a camera lens, moving from close-up to medium shot to long shot.  What more information have you gathered about any given moment by playing with your personal lens?  Try making one decision today based on this kind of expanded information.

You can click here to read how you can make advances in your Discernment.

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2010 Train-the-Trainer Certificate Programs: Santa Fe, New Mexico in October and November


The two different Train-the-Trainer programs will be held in Santa Fe (a wonderful city) back to back this coming October and November. The first program, based on Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work -complete with a Trainer's Guide, powerpoint slides, and training tools -shows you how to lead powerful interactive activities in organizations that help organizations grow in the most important areas: communication, feedback, conflict, teams, and leadership. You can read more about the program here.

Dates: October 22-27, 2010

Registration Fee: $1300 USD

 

The second program, based on What Type of Leader Are You?, offers participants the opportunity to facilitate activities, receive feedback, and learn how to grow leaders in accelerated, smart, and powerful ways. This program comes with Trainer's Guide, powerpoints, training tools, an original simulation package, and graphic fabric banners. You can read more about the program here.

Dates: October 29 - November 3, 2010

Registration Fee: $1600 USD

 

The programs can be done altogether. And people who have done one after the other have actually found it beneficial and not tiring (which amazes me!). The program is being held at The Hotel La Fonda, a historic landmark hotel seen in the photo above.

Participants who want to attend both programs can do so at a discounted rate of $2500 instead of $2900. 

For the discounted rate, please contact the office directly; the online store is not programmed to offer this option. To register online for either program, click here.

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New Multimedia Centre Additions!

There are three new additions to the Multimedia Centre on the website. The first is a 10-minute video clip from my recent Las Vegas program showing the 9 styles in action, a simulation in which they are "supposed to" toss balls to one another without dropping them. It is very funny.

The other two are interviews: the first is a one-hour video interview conducted by Iain McNay of Conscious TV; the second is a one-hour radio interview by Adrienne Williams of the Enneagram Examiner. Both are Enneagram Style 6s and ask questions about a variety of topic areas in which other interviewers might fear to tread!

To view or listen to these new additions, visit the Multimedia Centre here.

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Highlight of the Enneagram Learning Portal


Each month, nine different coaches, one of each style, are asked to respond to the very same question. This month's question is an important one, and the following excerpt is from Dave Warner, an Enneagram style Three coach.

As a coach of the same style as your client, what challenges and opportunities arise and how do you deal with these effectively? Do you think it is benefit or a problem when coaches and clients are the same Enneagram style?

Coaching those of my Enneagram style brings benefit, but can create problems if I'm not careful. Rapport and understanding are quickly reached. Trust is established easily, and we tend to be able to get off to a fast start. I'm able to relate to the issues facing the person being coached, because they are often my issues.

On the downside, well, the issues that come up are often my issues. If I haven't done my own work, I'm not going to be able to help the person I'm coaching and, in fact, I could become reactive and project my issues back onto the client! Special attention to what's going on inside me is always advisable in a coaching relationship, but it's critical when I'm coaching other Threes.

I actually make this explicit at the outset. I find that it's useful at the beginning to have a conversation with the Three about similarities and blind spots, just to make sure we're "keeping each other honest" for the duration of the relationship.

Because it can be easy to collude, I've noticed myself "taking sides" or "letting the client off the hook" -- not pressing the client on a behavior or an issue because I so clearly understand it, having lived it myself.

On the whole, however, my intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the Three is much more of a blessing than a curse. We're able to laugh at our behaviors and thought processes together, acknowledging the absurdity and paradoxes of how what we do gets in the way of what we want. I've noticed this rapport helps Threes coached by Threes to feel safer, less judged, and more willing to be authentic and abandon the need to look good than Threes coached by other Enneagram styles.

You can join the Enneagram Learning Portal (ELP) for a yearly subscription rate of $150 and learn about the Enneagram and its business applications in depth at your own time, pace, and place. Group rates also available. To learn more about the ELP, click here.

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Title Bar - Upcoming Program Schedule

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CERTIFICATE PROGRAM: "COACHING WITH THE ENNEAGRAM" BASED ON BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN EVERYONE YOU COACH
| HELSINKI, FINLAND (program in English)
SEPTEMBER 18-22, 2010  |  5 DAYS | EARLY BIRD 1750 until August 15, 2010; 23%VAT included in price, refundable to many attendees ; REGULAR €1950

This program for coaches, managers, HR professionals, trainers, and consultants fully integrates the Enneagram with coaching methodologies and techniques from Gestalt and NLP, among others.

Complete program description

Contact Kristiina Harju at [email protected] or +358-208-708807


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CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:  "COACHING WITH THE ENNEAGRAM" BASED ON BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN EVERYONE YOU COACH | HONG - KONG (program in English)
SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 3, 2010  |  5 DAYS  | EARLY BIRD HK$11,800 (before July 15, 2010); THEN HK$12,800 (before August 31, 2010); AND HK$13,800 THEREAFTER

This program for coaches, managers, HR professionals, trainers, and consultants fully integrates the Enneagram with coaching methodologies and techniques from Gestalt and NLP, among others.

Complete program description

Contact Gloria Hung at [email protected] or +852 2394 5460


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CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:  TRAIN-THE-TRAINER BASED ON BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN YOURSELF AT WORK | SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, USA
OCTOBER 22 - 27, 2010 |  6 DAYS  | $1300 USD

This intensive program offers HR professionals, trainers and consultants, coaches, and managers first-hand experience integrating the Enneagram with the most important business applications of the Enneagram.

Complete program description

Register for program


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CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:  LEADERSHIP TRAIN-THE-TRAINER BASED ON WHAT TYPE OF LEADER ARE YOU? | SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, USA
OCTOBER 29 - NOVEMBER 3, 2010 |  6 DAYS  | $1600 USD

Based on the seven core leadership competencies in What Type of Leader Are You? and integrated with insights of the Enneagram, HR professionals, trainers and consultants, coaches, and managers learn how to develop and facilitate state-of the-art leadership development programs using experiential activities and the innovative technology of Learning Communities. Includes a comprehensive Trainer's Guide with over 40 activities, color PowerPoints, simulations, wall banners, and participant handouts.


Complete program description

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"ENNEAGRAM, LEADERSHIP AND COACHING: COMPETITION VS. COOPERATION" | MILAN, ITALY
NOVEMBER 19 - 21, 2010  |  3 DAY

Sponsored by GruppoCS, this three-day program includes an introduction to the Enneagram (day 1), Leadership Transformation (day 2), and Enneagram Coaching (day 3).

Contact Maria Montemezzani at [email protected] or +3902 9379 8879


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CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:  "COACHING WITH THE ENNEAGRAM" BASED ON BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN EVERYONE YOU COACH | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (program in Korean)
JANUARY 18 - 22, 2011 |  5 DAYS


This program for coaches, managers, HR professionals, trainers, and consultants fully integrates the Enneagram with coaching methodologies and techniques from Gestalt and NLP, among others.

Complete program description

Contact [email protected] or +
82 2 11 771 7147

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CERTIFICATE PROGRAM: "COACHING WITH THE ENNEAGRAM" BASED ON BRINGING OUT THE BEST IN EVERYONE YOU COACH | CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA
MARCH 7 - 11, 2011 |  5 DAYS
| EARLY BIRD $1200 (by October 1, 2010);  REGULAR $1300

This program for coaches, managers, HR professionals, trainers, and consultants fully integrates the Enneagram with coaching methodologies and techniques from Gestalt and NLP, among others.

Complete program description

Register for program

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