When we lack self-awareness, we tend to operate on auto-pilot – our thoughts, actions and feelings take on a pattern which over a period of time become difficult to change. So instead of focusing on ourselves, we start to focus on external things to help us with the internal struggle, seldom though do we meet up with success.

The Enneagram tool helps us to turn inward, to focus on ourselves – allows us to see for ourselves how we react when we are happy or sad or excited or in despair; and most importantly helps us in identifying the difference between motivation and behaviour.
The most significant distinguishing aspect of Enneagram is that it allows us to explore our personalities by not boxing us into a particular type.

Imagine that you own a large home with many rooms and a beautifully maintained garden, but have confined yourself to a small dark closet in the basement. Most of us have even forgotten that the rest of the home exists and that we are the ones that own It!
The Enneagram allows us to be free of the shackles of our personality, which we have created around ourselves and permits us our growth both personally, professionally and spiritually.

The Enneagram is a dynamic system of nine personality types that provides one with this insight and knowledge. It’s an ancient 9-point system that puts people in nine distinct personality types.

What is unique about Enneagram is its focus on the dynamism of life; not only does it provide a comprehensive profile of ourselves, but it also considers the growth and regression of our personality types, as well as the complex motivations behind our actions.

1. We increase our Emotional Intelligence

2. We Create Self-awareness

3. We increase our empathy for others

4. Learn the art of being calm during stressful times

5. Acquire the ability of rapport building, and working collaboratively with people around us

6. Understand how we’re using the 3 Centres of Intelligence – the head, heart and gut – so we can learn to make more effective and balanced decisions

7.Uncover our specific communication strengths and challenges so we can become more effective in our relationships

8.Discover how to improve our Emotional Quotient through awareness of self and others

9. Learn tools specific to our unique leadership style, so that we can start making changes straight away

10. Enneagram allows us to create a path for self-growth which can be sustained over a lifetime.

There is a clear connection between understanding The Enneagram of Personalities and Emotional Intelligence.

Source: Robert Tallon and Mario Sikora –

Focusing on how each type has a coping strategy helps us to apply Enneagram to a variety of competency models for leaders, sales, executive coaching, and team building. Clearly the path to increased emotional intelligence comes from understanding our frequently used strategies to cope with tough situations, with other people, and lead successful lives.

With all the disruption in today’s workforce, the most successful companies know that the secret of unlocking world-class performance among their employees lies in maximising the potential of every single team member. A Gallup survey of 2019 found that around 35% of a company’s workforce is engaged- those who are highly involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace. Often these people are highly self-motivated too. But what happens to the actively disengaged employees who have miserable work experiences and spread their unhappiness to their colleagues? They form around 13% of the workforce.So even if we leave this 13% workforce and focus on the 42% who are neither highly engaged, nor are they disengaged but can be worked on to bring them into the engaged category fold, how do we go about it?