Delayed Delights

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For me last week was all about watching Michelle Joy 's amazing conversations in her brand-new Enneagram summit (called 'The Enneagram Summit for Businesses and Teams') with some world-renowned Enneagram practitioners.

I took notes of some of my most important takeaways and personal lightbulb moments, and sharing them below in case you might find them thought-provoking as well (or want a sneak peek into the summit). ?

(I've also been noticing how sometimes there's a 'delay' with me between when I first encounter an idea and when it finally 'lands'. :D

Because often when it finally does, it isn't completely new for me. What 'just' happens in these cases is that I finally realize the magnitude, the depth and the impact of the teachings behind them...

It's as if these amazing ideas were 'nurturing' me, to use a marketing term... :D)

Anywho, these were my 9 biggest 'hits and reminders' from last week, thanks to the following fab folx:

SPEAKER: Mario Sikora (CEO, Awareness to Action)

SNIPPET: There’s a difference between 'Instinctual bias' (Instinct) and skill.

SIGNIFICANCE*: Just because you (subconsciously) over-emphasize and prioritize an area of life (e.g. Self-Preservation, Sexual, Social), it doesn't mean you also do it well (i.e. do so with 'skillful means').

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SPEAKER: Catherine R Bell (CEO and Founder, the Awakened Company)

SNIPPET: The highest performing leaders are self-aware, and transformational leadership = 'I + I + I + I': Inspiration (motivation, vision), Idealized Influence (values, 'walking our talk'), Intellectual Stimulation (asking Qs, get them to figure it out for themselves), and Individualized Consideration (using the Enneagram).

SIGNIFICANCE: Self-awareness is fundamental for life, especially if you want to lead –and we all do, when marketing online. (See my coaching program's premise re how 'influencing = (thought) leading').

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SPEAKER: Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD (CEO, The Enneagram in Business)

SNIPPET: A group of people in and of itself isn’t a team, and some groups won't (don’t want to) become a ‘team’ (but just stay e.g. at a book club or meet up group level). And that’s OK, it's just something worth being aware of.

SIGNIFICANCE: It takes conscious intention and motivation to pursue and achieve anything in life. (You have to be both 'able and willing' to go for the thing.)

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SPEAKER: Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD and Russ Hudson

SNIPPET: If a Type is missing on a team, what they ‘bring’ can (should) still be represented and actively remembered.

SIGNIFICANCE: What the Types stand for are indeed gifts and should be consciously celebrated as such (... caveat: when they aren't 'overdone', i.e. manufactured by the ego).

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SPEAKER: Russ Hudson

SNIPPET: The 'assertive' Types (T3, 7, 8) are best called the 'initiators', the 'compliant' Types (T1, 2, 6) are best called the 'altruists', and the 'withdrawn' Types (T4, 5, 9) are best called the 'strategic long view' folx in the business world.

SIGNIFICANCE: Just another reminder (by Ginger and Mario too) of the importance of how we need to steer clear of any excessive 'woo woo' talk or 'psychobabble' in corporate settings as this can be off-putting (e.g. 'core wounds'). And a great reminder of the marketing contradiction that we have to speak the language of our audience so that there is receptivity, so that we can earn the right to serve ... and then educate on these sometimes more abstract ('woo') concepts.

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SPEAKER: Russ Hudson

SNIPPET: It's worth trying to avoid situations where members of a team know 'just enough to be dangerous’ (e.g. when teaching them only the 9 Types).

SIGNIFICANCE: A great T5 teaching in that sometimes 'a little knowledge' can indeed be dangerous because knowledge is power(ful) but must be used (spread) carefully.

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SPEAKER: Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD

SNIPPET: If a team has too many goals it won't be efficient, if it has too few goals, it won't be effective.

SIGNIFICANCE: Finding the 'golden mean' is crucial with everything in life, e.g. with ego too (as in, too little ego strength is a problem, too much also a problem); or as Ginger also points out re 'optimal levels of interdependence' on a team.

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SPEAKER: Ginger Lapid-Bogda PhD

SNIPPET: the term 'self-mastery' (instead of 'Levels of Health', etc.)

SIGNIFICANCE: I like self-mastery more, it sounds less 'medical' to me somehow.. :D

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SPEAKER: Matt Schlegel (CEO, Schlegel Consulting)

SNIPPET: Going round the circle (i.e. from 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) can be used as a generic formula for problem solving as well as continuous improvement. (Watch his talk where he explains and exemplifies how!)

SIGNIFICANCE: The Enneagram is a set of useful (leadership) 'cheat sheets' (compasses) as well, if we pay attention to its layers (and remember to use it not just as a mere personality typology but also as a process tool.)

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(*SIGNIFICANCE = my personal interpretation/understanding)

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Did you also 'attend' the summit? What were your biggest aha moments?

Or buying it now? ;) (Link in the comments, if you missed it last week and want to!)

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Thank you all who spoke, and thank you Michelle Joy for organizing it again! <3