Calculating Your Enneagram E-Book

50MINUTES

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• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 28

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about discovering your Enneagram type with this practical guide.

Finding the career path and lifestyle that are right for you is never an easy task, and charting the right course only gets more difficult when you do not have a firm sense of identity to guide you. Discovering your Enneagram type will help you to better understand your own personality, particularly the motivational forces that drive you, which is often the key to figuring out exactly what changes you need to make in order to lead a more fulfilling, balanced life.

In 50 minutes you will be able to:
•Understand the Enneagram model
•Discover your own Enneagram type
•Apply your newly-gained knowledge to harness your true potential


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The Enneagram of Personality

Problem: what is the Enneagram and how can it help us as we strive towards personal fulfilment?Uses: this self-analysis technique facilitates targeted personal development in order to help us find a path that suits us, particularly in a professional context.Professional context: human resources, work psychology, communication, management.FAQs:Surely using the Enneagram to analyse people’s personalities is really about putting people in boxes?Will examining my personality through the lens of Enneagram theory really help me to understand myself more fully?How can I apply Enneagram theory in my professional life?Is there an ideal profession for each type?Are there some types which are fundamentally incapable of understanding each other?Can my type change over time?

Finding your path, carving out a place for yourself and flourishing at work are some of the challenges that anyone who works is sure to come up against. Everyone’s success in these matters hinges on how well they know themselves, but this can often seem like an insurmountable challenge in and of itself. This is where a tool such as the Enneagram can come in very useful.

The Enneagram is a method of analysing your own personality, which will then help you to focus your professional efforts more effectively and obtain better results. It focuses on an individual’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the ways of bringing out the best in them. It can also give you some idea of the answers to questions such as: “How can I find a path to success that will be fulfilling for me?” and “How can I unlock the full potential of my personality?”

At one point or another, almost all of us will feel at least a flicker of doubt over how wisely we chose our career path. Similarly, it is far from unusual to feel as though you are struggling to gain any ground in your personal and professional development. The Enneagram offers you a way of carrying out self-analysis which will help you to control your own behaviour.

Although it is simple to apply, certain aspects of the Enneagram method can seem complex, as it is not simply a way of sorting personality types into boxes: it also offers solutions.

Enneagram insights: the basics

What is the Enneagram?

The Enneagram is a psychological theory which dates back to Antiquity, and has been reinterpreted by the Christian and Sufi communities, among others, in the intervening years. Until recently, the Enneagram was always viewed in a religious or philosophical context, but in the 1970s it re-emerged in the field of psychology in the United States, and since then the technique has become commonplace in the professional sector. Its newly restored popularity can primarily be attributed to the Chilean psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo (born in 1932), who studied the topic in depth for many years and developed the definitions of the nine personality types which make up the Enneagram. In the intervening decades, the use of the Enneagram also became widespread in the spiritual, business and education sectors, and proved equally effective in these fields. Experts have identified three major advantages of this revised method, among others:

it is a totally individualised method of analysis;