Evolutionary Team Effectiveness
What do you love about living in the United States? What is uncomfortable? How does it compare with your experiences living and traveling abroad? Teamwork 9.0 author Matt Schlegel leads this complimentary workshop in which participants of all Enneagram types share their experiences living in America and relating to American culture.
When: Tuesday, November 17, 7:30-9PM Pacific Time
For Zoom meeting details, contact Matt Schlegel — matt@evolutionaryteams.com
Hope you can join us!
The Enneagram is a powerful personality system which leaders can us to help team members better understand themselves, the styles of their teammates, and the interpersonal dynamics that occur. In my role as a manager at Palm, I introduced the Enneagram to my team. I joined Palm after it had merged with Handspring, so the Enneagram was helpful at getting teammates from the merged companies to build rapport with one another and work effectively together.
Grateful to Mari-Lyn Harris and Heart@Work (www.heartatworkonline.org) for the opportunity to share topics about the Enneagram and my book Teamwork 9.0. Find the entire interview here:
https://evolutionaryteams.com/heartwork-interviews-author-matt-schlegel/
Video Transcript
Mari-Lyn Harris: So how does that transferred into your team? Like, what happened to your team? Did you use [the Enneagram] with your team at work as you were moving into management? How did that help and play out?
Matt Schlegel: Yeah, I did. So as I understood [the Enneagram] better, I introduced it to my team. At the time I was working at a company — Palm — and, we had recently merged with a company called Handspring. You had Palm and Handspring coming together as one company. In that environment where you’re trying to merge two teams, I found the Enneagram very helpful at getting people to understand themselves, understand other people, and understand the interpersonal dynamics of those relationships. I brought it into the team on that basis, just to get people more comfortable with each other’s working styles, and it was really very powerful and effective at doing that.
I am conducting two Enneagram workshops in November. Please join if you can!
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Title: Learn the Nine Intrinsic Motivations of Teammates
Description: One of the biggest challenges for project managers is understanding what motivates their team members. Likely, project managers have a good idea of what motivates themselves, and they may project their own motivation onto others. That strategy may or may not work. Some individuals may have completely different motivations, and the manager may struggle to understand those differences. The Enneagram is a tool that describes nine distinct personality styles, each with a distinct – and distinctly different – motivation. By knowing the Enneagram style of team members, and by understanding each person’s intrinsic motivation, a project leader can individually motivate team members to complete assignments.
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Time: 6:15pm to 8pm Pacific Time
Host: PMI Silicon Valley
Registration: $5
More information and to register HERE.
https://pmisv.org/events/calendar/general-events/pm-insight-sunnyvale/pm-insight-sunnyvale-virtual-meeting-learn-the-nine-intrinsic-motivations-of-teammates
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Title: The Enneagram and America
Description: What do you love about living in the United States? What is uncomfortable? How does it compare with your experiences living and traveling abroad? Teamwork 9.0 author Matt Schlegel leads this complimentary workshop in which participants of all Enneagram types share their experiences living in America and relating to American culture.
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Time: 7:30pm to 9pm Pacific Time
Host: Center for Spiritual Life
Registration: Free
More information and to register HERE: https://www.centerforspirituallife.com/events/2020/11/17/the-enneagram-and-america
The Enneagram widely known as a powerful personality system with nine distinct types. As an engineer, I like to take things apart and put them back together to see how they work. In the process, I often break what I’m examining—whoops! Funny thing about the Enneagram, I can’t break it. No matter how I slice and dice, it elegantly fits back together and works amazingly well. This experience led me on the path to discover new ways to use the Enneagram beyond simply a personality dynamics system. Very little is written about using the Enneagram as a process, a practical way to guide teams through problem solving. Because the Enneagram is so effective when applied this way, I was compelled to write my book Teamwork 9.0 and share this team-effectiveness application with others.
In this video segment of the Impactful Legacy podcast with Mari-Lyn Harris, I share the story of how I couldn’t break the Enneagram which started me on the path of discovering Enneagram validity and Enneagram origin.
Grateful to Mari-Lyn Harris and Heart@Work (www.heartatworkonline.org) for the opportunity to share topics about Teamwork 9.0. Find the entire interview here:
https://evolutionaryteams.com/heartwork-interviews-author-matt-schlegel/
Video Transcript
Mari-Lyn Harris: Tell us a little bit about the Enneagram and how that plays a role in to your work with teams.
Matt Schlegel: As I was studying different things and learning about different leadership techniques, management techniques, of course you stumble across lots of different systems: Myers-Briggs, DISC™. And each one of these systems has a distinct set of pros and cons associated with it. As an engineer, I like to go in, poke holes in it, and try to break it. I could always do that with most of the systems until I stumbled across a system called the Enneagram. Interestingly the more I poked at it, tried to dissect it and rebuild it, the more robust it seemed to me. It just really held up as a system. And so that’s what really took me down the path of learning more about it. Like with many people I started using the Enneagram with my friends and family. It was actually introduced to me at my wife’s church where the reverend there is a big advocate of it. I learned it from him originally and even to this day he still has a wonderful group that I participate in. It’s a great community to learn from each other and explore the Enneagram
I love this review of Teamwork 9.0 and am so delighted and encouraged by the reviewer’s excitement!
“I’d heard about Enneagram concepts in the past, but I understood them to focus on self-understanding, self-improvement, and even spirituality. So I was intrigued when I heard about this book applying enneagram theory to operation of teams in general and business teams in particular. The book was an eye opener! As someone who leads teams in my work, I’m always looking for how to make them more effective, particularly when there are challenging people on them. This book gave me a whole new way to look at teams and understand various interpersonal dynamics at work in them. Most importantly, this book has enabled me to see many opportunities to improve my teams and my leadership of them. I have lots more to learn from the book, but I’m off to an exciting start!”
