120: Are there 9 Types of Leaders? Exploring the Enneagram with Dr. Beatrice Chestnut
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 17 February 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Beatrice Chestnut discusses how using the Enneagram can help build an understanding yourself and the personality types of people you work with.
You’ll Learn:
- What is the Enneagram and how it aids in understanding people
- Why 9 is the Enneagram’s key number
- Key practices for developing emotional intelligence
About Beatrice
Beatrice Chestnut, PhD MA is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, and business consultant based in San Francisco. She has a PhD in communication studies, and an MA in clinical psychology. She is the author of the books, The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge, and The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st century Workplace and was President of the International Enneagram Association from 2006-2007. She offers trainings on the Enneagram internationally, focusing on using it as a tool for personal transformation.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Share your feedback at AwesomeAtYourJob.com/chat
- Website: beatricechestnut.com
- Human Personality Model: Enneagram
- Book: The 9 Types of Leadership by Beatrice Chestnut
- Book: The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Warner-Klemp
- Book: The Wise Fool’s Guide to Leadership by Peter Hawkins
- Book: Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney
- Test: Integrative Enneagram Questionnaire
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. Hello, thanks so much for joining us here for episode 120 with Dr Beatrice Chestnut. |
| 0:28.0 | Do you fancy yourself a reformer, a helper, an achiever, individualist, investigator, loyalist, |
| 0:33.8 | enthusiast, challenger, peacemaker. |
| 0:36.5 | Are there in fact nine types of people? |
| 0:38.1 | Well, we're gonna dig into it as Beatrice shares. |
| 0:40.9 | One, what is the anagram and how does it aid in understanding people, |
| 0:44.8 | two, why nine is the anagram's key number, and three, he practices for developing emotional |
| 0:50.3 | intelligence. |
| 0:51.3 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the |
| 0:53.0 | transcript or the links to items that we reference here you could find that over |
| 0:56.8 | at awesome at your job.com slash eep 1-0 that's letters e p the numeralsals 1 to 0. And while you're over there at |
| 1:05.5 | awesome at your job.com I'd love for you to check out some of our cool free |
| 1:09.7 | resources from the 10 days to winning at work free email course to the gold nugget email |
| 1:15.4 | summaries which tell you some of the key takeaways the guest share in an email. |
| 1:19.6 | You can read in the morning in under two minutes. |
| 1:22.2 | So here's Beatrice's story. |
| 1:24.4 | Beatrice Chestnut, PhDMA, is a licensed psychotherapist, coach, and business consultant |
| 1:29.4 | based in San Francisco. |
| 1:31.3 | She has a PhD in Communication Studies and an MA in Clinical Psychology. |
| 1:35.6 | She's the author of the books The Complete Anagram, 27 Paths to Greater Self Knowledge, |
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