Application of Enneatypology in Business

27/ 09/ 2017

Author: Galina Shabshai, a member of the International Enneagram Association; author of patented methods of personal growth for adults and children; consultant of top managers and business owners in the CIS, Europe, USA, Israel; the only expert in Ukraine in the international organization IEA in the field of typology As a partner, you must find someone who complements your skills. You do not necessarily need someone successful. Look for the right people, not the best people. Jack Ma Choosing a business partner or hiring an employee, you should be guided not only by their professional characteristics. The vision of the enneatype is an instant understanding of how your partner thinks. And the correct application and combination of ways of thinking in business processes is the key to success. The definition of the type and level of thinking of the person will give you an understanding of exactly how he will behave. And also how much he is capable of development. Thanks to the knowledge of the system of enneatypes these predictions will be jewelry accurate. Entering with this person into the business process, you can expect that he will act exactly as you foresaw. For example, you are the project manager and you need to complete the task in a short time. Knowing about the enneatypes and their inherent ways of thinking, you can easily form an effective team. If in your team at the moment the ideological hunger, then you need variety and creatively thinking people. And this is the second and fourth enneatypes in the enneagram. The second will offer many variants of ideas, and the fourth will see how they can be successfully combined having received an original result. If you need to choose the best idea from the proposed, you need a person of the first enneaptype. Using his critical way of thinking, he will suggest removing everything that is not viable and leave only the best and most practical ideas. An analytically thinking fifth enneatype will weigh all the pros and cons of the proposed ideas, analyze all their weak and strong sides, leaving as a result the most profitable idea for your project. An imaginative thinking person of the third enneatype will offer original marketing moves to promote the idea you found. And a strategically thinking person of the eighth enneatype will create a plan for implementing the project. And so on. Depending on the task, you can form the team whose members will feel comfortable, each in his role. Due to this, the maximum efficiency of the entire team will be ensured. If you do not know the enneatypes of your team members and do not understand what kind of thinking each of them has, you risk losing a lot of time in solving the tasks. For example, if you contact the question “What are your ideas for solving this problem?” to the first critically minded enneatype during the brainstorming session, then, most likely, you will not hear anything new, except for criticism of already occurring events or the current situation. And if the same question is asked for a variety thinking second enneatype, then in response you will hear a lot of interesting ideas. If you apply knowledge of types in recruiting, you will recruit exactly those employees who are suitable for the post by the type of thinking.

As a partner, you must find someone who complements your skills. You do not necessarily need someone successful. Look for the right people, not the best people.
Jack Ma

Choosing a business partner or hiring an employee, you should be guided not only by their professional characteristics.

The vision of the enneatype is an instant understanding of how your partner thinks. And the correct application and combination of ways of thinking in business processes is the key to success.

The definition of the type and level of thinking of the person will give you an understanding of exactly how he will behave. And also how much he is capable of development. Thanks to the knowledge of the system of enneatypes these predictions will be jewelry accurate. Entering with this person into the business process, you can expect that he will act exactly as you foresaw.

For example, you are the project manager and you need to complete the task in a short time. Knowing about the enneatypes and their inherent ways of thinking, you can easily form an effective team. If in your team at the moment the ideological hunger, then you need variety and creatively thinking people. And this is the second and fourth enneatypes in the enneagram. The second will offer many variants of ideas, and the fourth will see how they can be successfully combined having received an original result. If you need to choose the best idea from the proposed, you need a person of the first enneaptype. Using his critical way of thinking, he will suggest removing everything that is not viable and leave only the best and most practical ideas. An analytically thinking fifth enneatype will weigh all the pros and cons of the proposed ideas, analyze all their weak and strong sides, leaving as a result the most profitable idea for your project. An imaginative thinking person of the third enneatype will offer original marketing moves to promote the idea you found. And a strategically thinking person of the eighth enneatype will create a plan for implementing the project. And so on.

Depending on the task, you can form the team whose members will feel comfortable, each in his role. Due to this, the maximum efficiency of the entire team will be ensured.

If you do not know the enneatypes of your team members and do not understand what kind of thinking each of them has, you risk losing a lot of time in solving the tasks.

For example, if you contact the question “What are your ideas for solving this problem?” to the first critically minded enneatype during the brainstorming session, then, most likely, you will not hear anything new, except for criticism of already occurring events or the current situation. And if the same question is asked for a variety thinking second enneatype, then in response you will hear a lot of interesting ideas.

If you apply knowledge of types in recruiting, you will recruit exactly those employees who are suitable for the post by the type of thinking.