On this week’s episode, meet the amazing Karl Hebenstreit - he’s not just any coach – he's an Enneagram guru, and multi-book author, here to enlighten us on how this magical personality tool can rock your professional world. Karl is passionate about sharing how to blend this ancient mystique with modern-day practicality. In his book, The How and Why, Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram, he demonstrates the many ways to apply this tool in business.
Karl also provides an overview of the three primary Enneagram centers - heart, head, and body, and breaks down each type within these centers.
You are treated to valuable insights into the Enneagram's origins, its ancient and mystic roots, and its potential for building emotional intelligence.
Karl also wrote: Nina & The Really, Really Tough Decision.
It is wonderful introduction to the Enneagram through the lens of a decision-making (for children and adults alike). This book has been translated into many languages already – and I mention it because it all starts with children, understanding, accepting and celebrating the diverse super powers they each possess.
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You can reach Karl at: Karl@PerformandFunction.com
Website: http://www.performandfunction.com/
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I began my career as a teacher, was a corporate trainer for many years, and then found my niche training & supporting business owners, entrepreneurs & sales professionals to network at a world-class level. My passion is working with motivated people, who are coachable and who want to build their businesses through relationship marketing and networking (online & offline). I help my clients create retention strategies, grow through referrals, and create loyal customers by staying connected.
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Hi, hi, everyone, and welcome to this week's
episode of relationships rule. I'm Janice Porter and my guest
this week is Carl had been straight, who comes to us, I
think you're in California right now.
I am in California. I'm in Southern
California right now. Yes, thank you.
We've been traveling. I know. And we'll
talk about that in a second. But first of all, welcome to the
show. And for having me. You're very welcome. I, I just want to
tell you a little bit very little bit, I want you to tell
the rest about you that you are a certified executive coach,
leadership and organization, development consultant, author
and international speaker. And you're the author of this very,
very academic book called taking care the how and why taking care
of business with the Enneagram. Carl, it's all about the
Enneagram. And has
been I would say it's it's not just academic,
it's applying the academics to practicality to business
practicalities and organization development intervention. So
it's the actual application, you're, I
apologize, no worries. So that it's all about
how to use this and apply it in business. But for me, when I
first looked at it, I went, Oh, my God, this is like a text.
There
are academics in it. You're absolutely right.
I mean, my my PhD thesis is in there. So you're absolutely
right.
And I'm glad, I'm glad that you corrected me
because Absolutely, it's about how to use this tool in
business. And I think that in itself, just taking it from,
from the model that it is and then applying it is is even more
to me academic. But I know what you mean, like, this is the
other piece that I love. This is a book that Carl wrote about the
Enneagram. And it's a children's book called Nina. And the
really, really tough decision. This one, of course, I loved
because I love children's books, and I was a teacher, an
elementary teacher. So that's why I love this. But also, it's,
it's a great way to teach children. You know, how to get
along with other people really is different. And the thing
about this book, how many languages is it in?
So it's an English and it's in Spanish.
It's also been translated into Greek and we're getting a
publisher for it in Greek, and it's also being translated into
French. Isn't
that wonderful? So that's, that's so cool. And
that does it have I know it has some like questions and
discussion questions in the back of this book. Do you use Do you
have like? Is it something you would do, like, do a course on a
Pro D Day professional day for teachers to show them how to do
this book? That kind of thing?
Absolutely. And it of course, it's intended
for children. But at some point, some of the children may be too
young to read it. So the adults who read it to them will also
get a lot out of it. Of course, of course.
So all right. Tell me first of all, how did
this come about? For you? How did you get interested in this
model in this piece? And when like a long time
ago, or it was a long time ago? I didn't know
anything about the Enneagram? I think it's right now it's it's
very popular, or it's gaining a lot of popularity, and people
really do know about it, or are finding out about it in a
variety of different ways. Whether it's through pop
culture, and quickly go answer this one question will tell you
what your Enneagram type is, or actually studying it for
different reasons for spiritual development or personal
development or leadership development for maybe they're
they have a psychologist that they're working with, and the
psychologist has brought it up to help them with it. But the
the way that I found out about it was when I was in graduate
school, going for my PhD in organizational psychology. And
this was back then it was called the California School of
Professional Psychology in San Francisco. And what I didn't
know anything about it, I was Myers Briggs, I was disc I know
and all about those things I was using when I thought they were
the bomb. It was awesome. It was great. And then I went to this
one class, and it wasn't even an entire semester of it. It was
just one class out of that that semester for that one, one class
that I was taking one, one second. And the professor that I
had for the class, somehow fortunately, knew Helen Palmer
and invited Helen Palmer, to come to our class to teach us
about the Enneagram introduced the Enneagram to us, and I
didn't know who Helen Palmer was. And Helen Palmer is huge.
Helen Palmer is one of this probably the reason why the
Enneagram is in in is popular in culture right now because up
until she wrote a book about the Enneagram. Back in the I would
say 1970s. The Enneagram was not taught to the public. It was a
very esoteric, very very secretive type of program. Um,
that was taught for Spiritual Development actually, yeah,
yeah. Okay. Yeah. So she wrote it down, she popularized it. She
said, You know, the world started learning about it, and
then other people started applying it. But anyway, going
back to the class, she came, and she taught us about the
Enneagram. And my mind was absolutely blown, I would just
expanded, I didn't even think about the differences between
behaviors that the other instruments were measuring, like
the Myers Briggs, a disc, and Hogan and all those, versus the
actual motivation that was driving those behaviors. And I
kept thinking about all the different applications that I
could use this in human resources, because I was in
human resources. And thinking, wow, we're not even tapping into
a third of, of what we should be tapping into, we are not
engaging and motivating employees appropriately,
according to what they want. We're just focusing on just a
couple different archetypes, hear a couple different energies
here. And we're missing the boat on all these others. So I
immediately decided that I was going to dive deeper into
researching it, and did my dissertation on it. And it was
how to help organizations attract, retain and motivate
employees. So
you discovered if I get this correctly, that from
your experience with the other tools that are used in business
like disc and, and the personality type things, and so
on, that this was much deeper, and there is much to it, and
would be a much better overall tool to use in business there
are so you that was your premise, you want to find out
right? And
absolutely. And it really goes along to what
you talk about on your podcast, but the relationships about the
connections, right? So if we just see someone's behavior, we
have no idea why they're behaving that way we and we make
assumptions, we make assumptions based on our interpretations or
our limited worldview, because we have a certain worldview that
we're looking at the world through. And if we actually get
to know them, and find out what's important to them, what
their values are, what their drivers are, what motivates
them, what's important to them what their hot buttons are,
right, then we'll understand what's important to them. And we
will have better relationships, deeper relationships with them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll limit conflict, because we will be
interpreting things in a in a in a bad way. We're looking at, you
know, why they're actually doing it and will actually be able to
better communicate and influence them looking at giving them
exactly what they need, as opposed to extraneous stuff that
they may not be interested in. Okay,
so just to simplify it for me and my
audience. So in the children's book, you show that this, Nina
goes to see all of these different friends of hers, and
each one of them has a different number. So she did exactly
right. And those are the numbers on the the Enneagram. And each
one of those is a different person. Would you say?
personality type? No.
It's called a Personality Typing system just
to simplify it. And it's much more than that. Right. Okay.
So I was looking, though, in your book, The other
book, is there a quick test? I can I could have taken which I
should have asked you beforehand to see which number I was. And I
know we have different pieces of different ones in us, but we
must have.
Or, yeah, I mean, one or what? What did you
score type? I mean, type
four? Yeah, of course. Exactly. So is there a
quick test online that people can take? There
are so many of them are much more valid than
others? Take? Yeah, I'm happy to I'll send you a link.
I use the Can you tell what somebody is? Okay. So
what do you think?
I don't know. I couldn't so we're not. We
should never be looking to guess or identify someone's type
without them telling us because we don't know what's going on.
We're not mind reader's. We don't know what's going on for
them. We have no idea what they're thinking what they're
feeling. And what they're
Yeah, I broke, wrote them all down from the
kids book. Yeah. Okay. So that I could get a sense of them. And I
still I didn't know I'm not sure. I there's a couple that
feel like me. Yeah. But it definitely, you know, I think,
do
you want are you are you willing to share
which ones they are?
Yeah, well, I think Sure, of course. So. Do
you want to do you want to go through what the nine are? Yeah,
absolutely.
Yeah. So in the children's books, since
we're focusing on that the types are one through nine. And the
names are also indicative of the type. So type one is one right
to two is chewing Nene as a type nine, so she's Nino's nine.
Eight is Kate. So the type one which is the type we all have,
and as you said, we have all nine of these energies within us
to certain extents and we can access all nine of these
energies within us. It just takes us to focus on which one
is appropriate for that. moment for that situation. So if we
look at, I'm going to simplify it even further, I'm gonna look
at into groups of three. And maybe the types that you
selected are fall into one, each of these groups of three. So we
have the heart types, we have the head types, or thinking
types. And we have the body or action types. So if we start,
let's start with the heart types. So the twos, the threes,
and the fours are the heart types. So the type two energy is
all about intuitively reaching out and knowing what other
people need. So always having these feelers out, that are
looking and understanding what other people's needs are, and
meeting those needs or wanting to help people meet those needs,
even if the person hasn't asked for the help themselves. Yes.
Okay. So that's where the twos can get into trouble with that,
yes, it's that intuition of knowing what other people need
and suppressing their own needs in the moment, right, they're
always looking at other people's needs, and not necessarily their
own. So that's the path the superpower, the twos have that
intuition of, of meeting other people's needs, and wanting to
be liked and appreciated for that. So the type three heart
energy or feeling energy, is seeing what other people's needs
are, but also maybe pushing their own needs down in service
of achieving goals. They're always about goal, attainment,
goal achievement, meeting the objectives. So that's the type
three, that's the so the two is the Giver, or helper, the three
is more about performing and achieving. And then type four
heart energy is taking all of those energies in all those
feelings and very empathically feeling what other people are
feeling, feeling, what they're feeling themselves, and really
being in those feelings, and wanting to be appreciated for
being special, unique and different. So those are the
heart's types. And each of us whether it's our primary or not,
are going to really be attracted to one of those three, because
that's how we everyone accesses their heart. Everyone has
feelings, everyone feels so how do you basically feel you feel
through one of those, those three energies or lenses, so
it's up to you to decide which one of those that is, and I
don't know, if the some of the that you picked, if one of them
is in the two, three or four range? One of them is, yeah, so
probably, that's probably your feeling style. Yeah. So from the
feeling center, we then go to the thinking center, the head
center, and those are the fives, the sixes and the sevens. So
think of them as thinking styles. So the five is all about
objectivity. The sixth is about worst case, scenario planning.
And the seven is all about positive outcomes and
opportunities. So the fives energy is really all about
collecting all this random data that's out there and making it
make sense grading models to make it make sense, so that they
can predict what's possibly going to be happening in the
future, and they can be prepared for it and not look foolish.
That's what the five is really all about. Fantastic at creating
synthesizing this information, making it make sense. The six is
great at planning, because they're always looking at worst
case scenario situations, because they want to feel safe,
comfortable and secure. So they are looking for the safety of a
tribe. They're people, they are looking at, not necessarily to
throw a monkey wrench into things, but to prepare for the
worst case in case it does happen. And then they know what
to do. So they can be safe, comfortable, secure, and still
achieve the goal. And they the Warriors. They do worry, but
other types can worry as well. Okay. Or, and other types can
worry as well. And the seven is the optimist, right? So it's all
about opportunities, and adventures and experiences, and
just really taking advantage of all the different options that
are out there brainstorming. So those are all the head styles
that think the thinking styles, right? And each of us is going
to have one of these as our preferred mode of thinking. Not
that we can't think through the other two styles as well. But
those are secondary, or they take more focus for us to think
that way. So you probably I don't know if one of the top
that you came up with isn't one of those categories. In that
thinking style. Yeah,
I get more confused as we go on here. But
oh, no, it's meant to be
because I know that that some of what I some of
how I operate is logical and let's get the facts and then
let's organize sort of the analyst type. But that's not my
primary. I don't think I think I'm much more about people and
making friends making other people feel comfortable. And but
I'm also about loyalty. So yeah, yeah. So
so those are not mutually exclusive, and
correct. Oh, you do have because there is it's called your
triadic style or try fix or try type. So you will have a top
energy in each of these centers and one of those will be your
primary. Okay? Okay, if you're not identifying that the
thinking style is your primary focus, it may be because your
heart, your heart center, you lead with your heart. So you,
you will have one of those heart styles as your primary, but you
still have a thinking style. Okay. And you still have an
action style. Yeah, so
that's the third one is the action style,
this action or body or gut? Yes. So there are
eights, nines, and ones. So are eight. So if you think about it,
so you have the feeling, you have the thinking, and then you
have to do something with it like you felt. You've thought,
Now what do I do with it? So then you take action. So the
eights are all about taking action immediately leading
executing are the boss protectors, generals. Yeah, they
they they're about control, power, authority, justice, truth
they want to there's truth seekers, they want to know what
the truth is. They don't care what the truth is, they just
want to know what the truth is. They don't sugarcoat it for
them. Yeah, just give them what it is. And they will deal with
it. They are great with conflict, they see conflict and
debate as a way to get to truth. They don't necessarily like
conflict, but they see it as a tool to get there. And they're
the ones that are most comfortable with conflict,
because all the other styles are not necessarily looking to have
conflict or embrace conflict. And the eights again, don't love
it. But they see it as a way to get to truth, which is what
they're seeking. Ultimately, the nines don't like conflict at
all. They're the peacemakers. They're the peacekeepers,
they're like Don't rock the boat, let's just not, you know,
let's just all get along. And they're great at looking at the
entire system, they're looking at every single little bit of
every little option and component, and seeing the value
and positivity that it brings, and the value that it all brings
together to the system. Everything comes together and
works. And the type one is looking at things as well,
what's the right thing to do in this situation? Maybe it's
according to their values, their morals or ethics, but it's
always about doing the right thing. What's the right thing to
do, and having the sense of perfectionism we I need to do it
perfectly.
So So tell me what, what type this question or
statement brings up? Because right away when you started, and
you said, well, let's do it into three, three sections, which I
love that you did that. But right away, I was annoyed. Why
isn't it 1234567? Why?
So okay, so there were a couple of answers
for that. Sure. So some types are predisposed to be focused
on, I needed to be in a certain way I need to be in order, I
need speed following certain rules. So the type ones can
definitely fall into that category. The type fives,
remember, the fives wanted the system to want to be
predictable. So the fives might be a little annoyed at that as
well. Yes. And if you look at it as a system, and they might say,
oh, yeah, it doesn't matter. It's arbitrary, where you start
as long as it fits within the system. And there's a reason for
it. And there is a reason for why we why it's not 123 is the
heart styles and 345 as the feelings that as the thinking
styles. So it so when you actually see the symbol, there
are lines that connect each point to two other points on the
circle. Okay, and one of those lines is your, you want to call
it your stretch or your stress line. So where you will go under
stress or stretch. Yep, exactly. Okay, got it. And the other line
is your comfort or release line, which is where you will go to
comfort and you'll learn from both of those lines, those are
the easiest, and most impactful if you want to look at it that
way lines to learn from for your growth and development. Because
you want to go to the high side, and there are high sides and low
sides for each different energy, right? Yeah, there's the
positive and then there's the creative side and the reactive
negative side on the unhealthy side. So you always want to
strive to go for the healthy and creative.
And so that's why the one never sits in the right
place. Is that why? Because
yeah. Oh, it's in the right place for this
system.
All right. Yes. See, I guess there's some
perfectionist in me as well. I thought it was interesting that
the the, I think it's type seven is one of it's the adventure and
the cure. Yeah, it's interesting.
I think you're in the sense of wanting to
experience everything.
Okay. Everything food, it's not just food. It's
tasty. It's
everything. It's experiences. Yeah. Okay. So
really fascinating. And it's funny
because I was talking to somebody I think it was someone
I interviewed. Yes, the day before yesterday. And she is had
the Enneagram was one of her things that she did about you
and showed her your book because she hadn't heard of you, but a
leadership coach or an executive coach. And yeah, she might be an
interesting person for you to talk to actually, she's
absolutely brilliant. And she Yeah, I think that's who it was.
And I'll double check after our call. But yeah, I'd
love that connection. Yeah.
And, and so I can see, whichever, whichever model
I've seen in the past, and I've, you know, I've experienced the
disc and the other ones, you mentioned, the Myers Briggs,
that was long time ago. Oh, yeah, the color ones. And then
there was another one that was I forget the name of it. But you
know, I wrote down when I was looking that number number
seven, I thought of the promoter, I thought of the PERT
like, number, whereas number eight are like the, the
controller. So there was another one I did somewhere the
controller, the promoter, the analyst, and the the blue, which
I guess it was the title, that's
disk that is disk. So when there's those four
categories, and they have those names, so the the red is the for
the dominant, the D, right? Those are the assertive types.
So our threes are sevens, and our eights would fall into that
category. Yeah. So so there's
a lot of similarity, because of course,
you only have certain attributes, right? But for me,
any, I don't think I've ever had one stick with me in terms of
being able to see that in other people, except maybe it was the
disk because that's the one I remember. I remember, I see my,
my daughter is such a promoter, she's a salesperson, she's an
active person, she's like, let's get this done, you know,
thinking about it. And I can see and I'm a dominant person in
like, I'm the Bossy one. And you know, I want to get order and
organized and get everybody happening. And then my sister is
like, wants everyone to wants peace for everybody wants to
you know, she's the nine energy. Yeah, so
I
can see those things. And this just gives
another dimension to everything, right?
It explains the reason behind it, the hind
end. So what is the reason for the need to be dominant? Or the
behavior of being dominant? Yeah, right, is it the need for
and by the way, one of the subtypes for the type one can
also be very dominant. We haven't even discussed subtypes,
that's getting a lot deeper, the different instincts or three
different instincts, which creates subtypes. And anyway, so
the, the, you know, what's the reason for the dominance, the
behavior of dominance? Is it the need to control? Or is it the
need to be able to be free and have autonomy? And that way,
you're able to control your destiny by doing all these
different things, to prove yourself? Or is it for meeting
some certain goal of, you know, proving yourself that I can I
can achieve this goal, this is the goal that I put for myself,
and I'm going to achieve it. Prove yourself to somebody else,
it could also be for the type three as well. Yeah, there's
so many different things that that come to mind.
Okay, so how do you who in in a business environment is going to
use this isn't going to be the HR people? Or, you know, does it
have to come from the top down? I'm not even a corporate person.
But I'm just curious, you know?
So the answer is everyone, okay? Everyone can
benefit from it. So ideally, if it becomes part of an
organization's culture, and the leadership team embraces it, and
says, Wow, I can see the value in this and this works with my
leadership team. And then this is exactly what I've
experienced, right? I've gone in, I've done it at the
deliberative workshop for the top leadership team. They all
get it and they say, Wow, I need this for my leadership team and
their leadership teams and for their direct reports and their
direct reports. And that's how it really takes,
it has to start at the top really, generally
speaking, it does
have to start at the top and it can also
bubble up from the bottom. It could be a grassroots effort. So
different I've seen it happen where people go from one
organization to another, it's been Ingram is not in that
organization. They start using with their team, other parts of
the organization, see this successes that they're having is
a hold on a second, this is great, let's use it to so then
it starts bubbling and it goes up. Okay. So it's whatever
works. The answer is whatever works for the situation, the
culture or the organization. And it really is readiness, the
person's readiness, the leaders readiness, the employees
readiness, the organization's readiness to seems readiness,
just everyone's readiness. How ready are they for?
We knew the children's book. What age group
did you have in mind?
I think that it would probably apply best.
And again, it depends on the the advanced meant of the children.
Probably starting the earliest if eight. Yeah, so I was gonna
say, Yeah, eight. Definitely the 10 year olds get it immediately.
I would say grade three or four. Yeah,
yeah. So interesting.
Yeah. To, to use that in a school. I as I said, I
taught school a long time ago. You just came back from a cruise
in we got to do a presentation on your cruise. Yes. Of the
Enneagram. And that's exciting. So yeah, what 250 People in the
US now, they weren't on a on an educational tour, they were on a
Yo,
they were on a vacation there. All the ports
that we visited were truly islands with beaches. So people
were going out there and snorkeling and swimming and
laying on the beach. So this was definitely not part of their
agenda.
250 people showed up. So that's
pretty nice. Well, it was a captive audience.
But But no, but they didn't have to come right?
No, they
didn't. There were plenty of other
opportunities I was up against. I think there was a poker
tournament or something going on. There were other things
going on.
So tell me tell me how that of that audience I'm
I'm imagining? I don't know that you ask them if they'd heard of
it. Yes. Okay. How many
of you had I was, so throughout the cruise, I
was asking people when I was meeting people, you know, I was
telling them, I'm going to be doing this on the last day or
last see day. And you know, come if you're interested, you don't
have to come. But this what we'll be talking about
very few people. You were promoting,
I was promoting, they were promoting
for me. And they did a video that they shot a video and they
were and I was on the front page of their little daily newspaper
and everything like that. So it was great. But the thing that I
found out was, and this was mostly Australians, because the
cruise ship left from Sydney. And but it was people from all
around the world. And the thing that I found out was that most
people did not know about the Enneagram. Sometimes if they did
it was because they were clinical psychologists. And so I
didn't know who was going to show up at the workshop at the
one hour seminar. And I asked at the beginning of the seminar,
how many people had heard of the Enneagram were you anything
about it, and less than a dozen raise their hands.
So that was afterwards,
a lot of people came up to me and said
this was incredible. And it was really opened up their eyes,
they didn't know what to expect it and know anything about it.
And it was really very powerful for them and
impactful. Now, I think I said to you when I first
met you that my recollection of anything that was connected,
because I had heard the word I knew what basically it was, it
went back to a time when I did a course on the 24 Sacred gifts.
And the women that taught me that also had studied the
Enneagram. And I felt there was this religious or spiritual
connection. Can
you see? Yes, yes. So the origins of the
Enneagram are ancient and mystic. So the symbol itself is
a Sufi symbol. And the the actual concept can be traced
back 1000s of years because if you look at the Odyssey, and
Odysseus, his travels, Homer's Odyssey, it's actually the
Enneagram in order the lands visited or the Enneagram in
order, yes. And visited. Yes, are the Enneagram in order
there's a book Michael Goldberg has written a book about this.
And he shows how the Odyssey is really the Enneagram, the story
of the Enneagram all the different lands on the
Enneagram. Russ Hudson does a great trip every I think he does
it pretty much annually a trip to Egypt to show all the
different symbols and we're in the in the pyramids embedded in
the pyramids or Enneagram concepts. So it's really
fascinating to see how old it is. And we'll never know exactly
what the origins are, but we do see it around the world
pervasively. So
your goal now is as a speaker, right to go and
spread the word so to speak.
Yeah, I want to make people's lives easier. I
want to make their relationships easier. I want them to have more
effective relationships. Do better at work, be better people
be better human beings and just living easier, better life.
And and if they study the Enneagram and the the
MO motivations behind our actions, we'll learn more about
each other, we'll be able to get along better. Absolutely
think of it as emotional intelligence. Because
emotional intelligence building, you start with self awareness
first. So understanding what your own drivers have been in
will be will continue to be thriving in our lives. Because
your, your core Enneagram motivation will stay with you
for your entire life. It's just the expansion. It's the and so
in addition to that, let me see if I can integrate the other
eight styles and make sure that I'm not only fixated and looking
at the world without one lens, right and thinking that other
people are also looking at it that same way. So then when you
realize that other people don't, then you empathize with their
perspective
and adapt as accordingly, ultimately, is
the third point adapting and integrating
it and using it. So bringing it into your own worldview,
expanding your own worldview, to realize that it's not just that
one style or motivation or perspective, it's all of them.
That's
amazing. And it's actually a great way, a great
place to stop, because we've kind of come full circle now.
It's right, we understand a little bit more about the
Enneagram. I hope my audience does. I know I do. And I want to
go and find out a little bit more. And I also see the value
in what you're, you're now this is a new, a new journey for you.
Right? Because do you were you teaching by the way? Or were you
in?
So I found out about the Enneagram. Back last
century, if you're looking at buying is probably the when I
started my journey? Yeah, but
were you in corporate yourself? I
was I was in corporate up about two years
ago. Yeah. But I was still using the Enneagram in my
organizations in the organization. So
now you're going out on your own now you're the
author, speaker circuit. So it's exactly you know, on lighten a
lot more people's lives and, and businesses about the Enneagram.
So it's my hope, that was my dream.
I think it's Yeah, I think not a hope more of
a dream, I think it'll happen. I think it's interesting that
people are so much today in need of the softer side of things.
And and, and also, like you said, it's always stays with you
the world's changing and is crazy right now. But those kinds
of things, we need to understand people and be aware of what's
going on for a lot of people,
right? And going back to your audience, the
value in the Enneagram for your audience is if you're a leader,
knowing about what your predispositions are finding out
about your direct reports, your team's ways that what motivates
them, so you can engage them and motivate them and retain them.
Right? If you're in sales, or marketing, really knowing I was
just part of the Samsung just did a launch yesterday for their
new product. And I tuned into it. And I was fascinated to see
that they touched on every single Enneagram point what
would be of interest to each of the nine different styles. So
that so that you wouldn't leave anyone out, they will be very
inclusive. So it's really about inclusion, right, including all
diverse perspectives and needs. So if you're a sales and
marketing perspective, if you make sure that you touch on all
of those focal areas that each of these nine energies is
looking for, or their comfort, then you you will know that
you've addressed the needs of your stakeholders of your
clients or your potential customers. So it's for HR, same
thing, how do you work with your leaders and the employees like
finding out what's important for them, creating systems that will
really motivate them and engage them. So this is really a system
that can help bring everything together?
That's amazing. So I agree. Yeah, no, I think
that's great. And I'm really glad that you came to talk to me
and my audience about it, because I think they'll spread
the word, you know, and we'll get some more people interested
in so I will in the shownotes, where can people get these? I'll
put it in the show notes on Amazon or
on Amazon. They're in bookstores. Yeah. So
absolutely, feel free to review. So I'm on LinkedIn, of course my
website is perform and function.com. So it's like a
play on words form and function, but it's perform and function
and you spell out the end percent side. So it's p e r f o
r m a n d, fu MC T io n.com. And my LinkedIn is our Carl had been
striped, and Carl's with a que.
Got it. And I'll put all that in the show notes.
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