Enneagram Activity for Teams: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Enneagram Activity for Teams, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Practices that may help

1. Map your team’s genius coverage
   Check whether all six activities are covered by someone who finds them energizing.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
2. Assign project phases to genius-matched people
   Route early ideation to Wonder/Invention geniuses and execution phases to Tenacity geniuses.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
3. Body center awareness — gut, heart, or head
   Identify whether you default to body instinct, emotional intelligence, or mental analysis — and practice leading with the others.
   The Enneagram
4. Run a structured team morphological session
   The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
   Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
5. Align around collective results, not individual status
   Teams fail when members prioritize their own visibility or department’s success over the shared goal.
   The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical
6. Diagnose which stage your team is in
   Name the stage you’re in before you pick a leadership response.
   Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development
7. Use the Johari Window in team settings
   Apply the window at the team level to improve shared understanding and reduce inter-member blind spots.
   The Johari Window
8. Run a regular team elimination review
   Periodically review what the team is doing that no longer serves any current goal.
   The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
9. The Enneagram
   The Enneagram describes nine personality types, each organized around a core motivation and a characteristic defense strategy. It is most useful not as a label but as a framework for noticing the specific automatic patterns — especially under stress — that you could not see before having a name for them. The evidence base is contested: type validity research is mixed, but the model’s descriptive richness and stress-related self-observation utility are widely reported clinically and in coaching.
10. The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
    Patrick Lencioni’s Working Genius model describes six activities — Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanizing, Enablement, and Tenacity — that are required to complete any meaningful work. Each person finds two of these energizing (geniuses), two draining (frustrations), and two neutral (competencies). The model is a practitioner framework; it lacks independent peer-reviewed validation, but it provides a practically useful vocabulary for team role awareness.

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My team keeps dropping the ball at the same stage every single project→
• I keep dragging the big-picture dreamers into the tedious finishing work and asking my finishers to brainstorm wild ideas, and everyone’s miserable and the handoffs are a mess→
• I tend to overthink every decision into the ground and completely lose touch with what my body or my heart is telling me→
• On my own I only know so much about each piece of this, and when the team brainstorms together the loudest first idea anchors everyone→
• Everyone on my team is quietly playing for their own scoreboard→

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