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The Enneagram and Leadership

The Enneagram and Leadership: What’s Holding You Back From Authentic Impact? The short answer is, ourselves. As we develop into the humans we are today, from an early age, our minds or ego develops a strategy to safely navigate the world. Some Enneagram schools believe this is innate from birth, as a quality of your soul. Others believe your type is developed through nurture, or experiential conditioning. Either way, you’ve developed an internal working model for navigating threats, challenges, and relationships that stands between you and your authentic leadership expression. The Enneagram and leadership go hand in hand. It’s an individualized development pathway steeped in ancient wisdom and adopted by modern psychology, offering 9 types and 27 subtypes to help you become integrated, lead yourself,

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numberless enneagram symbol

The Enneagram and Leadership

The Enneagram and Leadership: What’s Holding You Back From Authentic Impact? The short answer is, ourselves. As we develop into the humans we are today, from an early age, our minds or ego develops a strategy to safely navigate the world. Some Enneagram schools believe this is innate from birth, as a quality of your soul. Others believe your type is developed through nurture, or experiential conditioning. Either way, you’ve developed an internal working model for navigating threats, challenges, and relationships that stands between you and your authentic leadership expression. The Enneagram and leadership go hand in hand. It’s an individualized development pathway steeped in ancient wisdom and adopted by modern psychology, offering 9 types and 27 subtypes to help you become integrated, lead yourself,

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Coaching a Dream to Reality

Feelings follow action. A story about the power of coaching. After I completed coaching training through Co-Active Training Institute a couple of years ago, I

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Communicating Decisions that You Don’t Agree With

In my pre-coaching career, I found that one of the most challenging aspects of my roles was how to communicate decisions to others (e.g. team members, peers, customers, etc.) that I did not agree with. These decisions involved actions such as employee separations, performance discussions, changes in business strategies and tactics, and letting go of longtime customers. Most of these decisions were made with little to no input from myself or my peers who were charged with implementing these decisions. Not surprisingly, many of my coaching clients cite this same requirement as a major challenge in their roles as well. For many, it is a major source of stress. As communicating decisions that they do

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