How to Appreciate Your Team Want to leave each member of your team humming the 80s classic “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” and fist-pumping the sky like Bender at the end of The Breakfast Club? Learn how to appreciate them! Just like motivation, team appreciation needs to be customized for each Enneagram personality type on … Read more
Calling all leaders! Are you, like me, guilty of projectile motivating – inspiring your team with what inspires you? According to research by Gallup, only 2 in 10 employees strongly agree that management motivates them to do outstanding work. What if 2020 could be different? What would be possible if all of your team were … Read more
A Reindeer-in-Headlights Guide to Gift Giving Are you like a reindeer in the headlights when it comes to holiday gift exchanges? Have no fear: The annual “Hack the Holidays Enneagram Gift Guide” is here! Each of the Enneagram types in your life desires external gifts, but requires internal ones to grow. What if we could … Read more
Conflict and the Burning Question The answer – Yes or No – to our Burning Question shapes our moment-to-moment experience of life and conflict. Consider the Enneagram Chart. Conflict seems to arise from people and circumstances beyond our control. Consider, however, that conflict – internal and external – is fueled by our perceptions, and our … Read more
A Motivation and Communication Guide for Couples It’s too bad “Money Motivation and Communication Guides” don’t come with every marriage certificate. I could have used one in my first marriage. Whether it was my ex-husband’s pattern of “surprising” me with new puppies, cars, horses, or homes he wanted, or my secret shopping sprees at Nordstrom, … Read more
How do you define communication? “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw How do you define good communication? Like Brené Brown, who says “Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.”? Or like author and TED speaker Nancy Duarte: “Words that are carefully framed and spoken are … Read more
