Transform Your Team with the Enneagram - by Ginger Lapid-Bogda (Paperback)

About the Book

Are you a team member, a team leader, a coach, trainer or consultant, an HR professional? Learn how to align, attune and accelerate your team into high-performance using the Enneagram.

Book Synopsis

Transform Your Team with the Enneagram shows you how to create great teams, whatever their size or industry, no matter if the team model is in-person, remote or a hybrid. Whether you are a team member, a team leader at any organizational level, a coach, trainer or consultant, an HR professional, or if you are simply intrigued by teams, learn how to align, attune and accelerate your team into high-performance.

There's almost nothing more exhilarating than being part of a high-performing team and little that is as distressing as being part of a dysfunctional one. That's why this book teaches you how to create vibrant, sustainable, high-performing teams. The guiding insights from the Enneagram show how each of the nine Enneagram types functions at each stage of team development and what people of each type can do to help, rather than hinder, progress to the next stage. Through a combination of principles from team dynamics, combined with insights from the Enneagram, you'll be amazed how potent using the two together are in creating high-performing teams. Derived from team dynamics, the core principle is that teams go through four predictable stages of team development. If teams address the issues that present themselves at each stage, they can transform from being potential teams to high-performing ones.

Today, teams are everywhere. We work on a variety of teams - think customer service teams, role-based or function-based teams, executive teams, and special project teams, just as starters. Physicians work in teams as do people who work in service delivery. This team trend started over 30 years ago and created a huge team multiplier effect. Now, teams give birth to networks of teams. Here are the key reasons why this is happening and why creating high-performing teams is more important than ever.

The Enneagram is an incredible asset to use in the workplace. In addition to transforming teams by building trust, decreasing stress and improving productivity, the Enneagram can also:

- Develop conscious and highly-skilled leaders

- Reduce miscommunication at all levels in the organization

- Encourage innovation, creativity, and productive risk-taking

- Help retain talented employees

- Change organizational culture to be more collaborative

- Improve customer relationships

- Increase organizational sustainability

When you integrate the Enneagram into your teams, you'll end up spending less time and money dealing with conflict, you'll reduce your frustration with others, and you'll feel far more satisfied and capable at work than you ever thought possible.

Review Quotes

WHAT RUSS HUDSON says

Russ Hudson, author of The Enneagram: Nine Gateways to Presence and co-author with Don Richard Riso of The Wisdom of the Enneagram.

There is nothing like the authority of experience, and Ginger Lapid-Bogda has tremendous experience both in guiding people with the Enneagram and with working with teams in major organizations. Ginger takes us through a step-by-step process for using this amazing tool and answers most every question we might have as well as some we might not have considered. It sets new standards for using the Enneagram in organizations. Highly recommended!

WHAT CEOs say

Tex Gunning, CEO, LeasePlan Corporation

What wisdom, what inspiration, and what an exceptional roadmap to create a high-performing team! For years, I have been reflecting and practicing what is and makes a great team. Not ever have I come across an article, let alone a whole book and roadmap, that is such an insightful and comprehensive guide along the way. This is surely a seminal book for all leaders!

Andre Viljoen, Managing Director and CEO, Fiji Airways

The Enneagram has gone a long way to help our teams resolve interpersonal problems, improve communication and heighten performance. This book is a must have and read. It is a lifesaver.

Meredith Leapley, CEO and founder, Leapley Construction Group

An excellent guide and wealth of information for any organization and illustrates how knowledge of the Enneagram can create more empathy, higher engagement and more understanding in the workplace! Thank you for delivering excellence once again!

WHAT FOUNDERS OF COACHING INSTITUTES say

Pam McClean, PhD, Co-Founder & Chief Knowledge Officer, Hudson Institute of Coaching

Ginger Lapid-Bogda has brilliantly combined her years of experience as an organizational consultant with her work and writing in the use of the Enneagram to create a book that is a true contribution to the field of team coaching and consulting. Team coaches and consultants will want this book in their library!

Dr. Paddy Pampallis, CEO, Integral Africa: The Coaching Centre, Cape Town

Ginger is the epitome of practical wisdom of the Enneagram anchored in her depth of experience in working with individuals, teams and organisations. Inspirational, practical and thought-provoking, it's a book you will keep by your side in any intervention!

WHAT OTHERS say

Clint Walker, VP & Global Head of IT Infrastructure Services, Roche/Genentech

Inspirational, refreshingly approachable in its practicality and timeliness, Ginger has created a work of passion that helps you reflect profoundly on your team membership and team leadership behaviors. The team maps provide a simple yet powerful tool for situational and cultural awareness for both self and team, while the development challenges offered for each type create opportunities to stretch oneself in the context of servant leadership and co-creative team membership.

Pieter Polhuijs, coach, mentor and consultant to start-ups and senior executives

Ginger has done it again and given us another valuable resource! As someone who offers team building to a wide range of corporate clients, I appreciate how accessible her book is and how she brings the concept to life with real-life case studies. From CEOs to interns, there is something for everyone in this book.