Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram | RR253
On this week’s episode, meet the amazing Karl Hebenstreit - he’s not just any coach – he's an Enneagram guru, and multi-book author, here to enlighten us on how this magical personality tool can rock your professional world. Karl is passionate about sharing how to blend this ancient mystique with modern-day practicality. In his book, The How and Why, Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram, he demonstrates the many ways to apply this tool in business.
Karl also provides an overview of the three primary Enneagram centers - heart, head, and body, and breaks down each type within these centers.
You are treated to valuable insights into the Enneagram's origins, its ancient and mystic roots, and its potential for building emotional intelligence.
Karl also wrote: Nina & The Really, Really Tough Decision.
It is wonderful introduction to the Enneagram through the lens of a decision-making (for children and adults alike). This book has been translated into many languages already – and I mention it because it all starts with children, understanding, accepting and celebrating the diverse super powers they each possess.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Enneagram and its applications in business and personal development
- Enneagram personality types and their characteristics
- How each person has a primary or natural way of interacting with the world
- The importance of understanding personality types in a business environment
- The origins of the Enneagram
You can reach Karl at: Karl@PerformandFunction.com
Website: http://www.performandfunction.com/
A little about me:
I began my career as a teacher, was a corporate trainer for many years, and then found my niche training & supporting business owners, entrepreneurs & sales professionals to network at a world-class level. My passion is working with motivated people, who are coachable and who want to build their businesses through relationship marketing and networking (online & offline). I help my clients create retention strategies, grow through referrals, and create loyal customers by staying connected.
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Transcript
Hi, hi, everyone, and welcome to this week's
Janice Porter:episode of relationships rule. I'm Janice Porter and my guest
Janice Porter:this week is Carl had been straight, who comes to us, I
Janice Porter:think you're in California right now.
Karl Hebenstreit:I am in California. I'm in Southern
Karl Hebenstreit:California right now. Yes, thank you.
Janice Porter:We've been traveling. I know. And we'll
Janice Porter:talk about that in a second. But first of all, welcome to the
Janice Porter:show. And for having me. You're very welcome. I, I just want to
Janice Porter:tell you a little bit very little bit, I want you to tell
Janice Porter:the rest about you that you are a certified executive coach,
Janice Porter:leadership and organization, development consultant, author
Janice Porter:and international speaker. And you're the author of this very,
Janice Porter:very academic book called taking care the how and why taking care
Janice Porter:of business with the Enneagram. Carl, it's all about the
Janice Porter:Enneagram. And has
Karl Hebenstreit:been I would say it's it's not just academic,
Karl Hebenstreit:it's applying the academics to practicality to business
Karl Hebenstreit:practicalities and organization development intervention. So
Karl Hebenstreit:it's the actual application, you're, I
Janice Porter:apologize, no worries. So that it's all about
Janice Porter:how to use this and apply it in business. But for me, when I
Janice Porter:first looked at it, I went, Oh, my God, this is like a text.
Janice Porter:There
Karl Hebenstreit:are academics in it. You're absolutely right.
Karl Hebenstreit:I mean, my my PhD thesis is in there. So you're absolutely
Karl Hebenstreit:right.
Janice Porter:And I'm glad, I'm glad that you corrected me
Janice Porter:because Absolutely, it's about how to use this tool in
Janice Porter:business. And I think that in itself, just taking it from,
Janice Porter:from the model that it is and then applying it is is even more
Janice Porter:to me academic. But I know what you mean, like, this is the
Janice Porter:other piece that I love. This is a book that Carl wrote about the
Janice Porter:Enneagram. And it's a children's book called Nina. And the
Janice Porter:really, really tough decision. This one, of course, I loved
Janice Porter:because I love children's books, and I was a teacher, an
Janice Porter:elementary teacher. So that's why I love this. But also, it's,
Janice Porter:it's a great way to teach children. You know, how to get
Janice Porter:along with other people really is different. And the thing
Janice Porter:about this book, how many languages is it in?
Karl Hebenstreit:So it's an English and it's in Spanish.
Karl Hebenstreit:It's also been translated into Greek and we're getting a
Karl Hebenstreit:publisher for it in Greek, and it's also being translated into
Karl Hebenstreit:French. Isn't
Janice Porter:that wonderful? So that's, that's so cool. And
Janice Porter:that does it have I know it has some like questions and
Janice Porter:discussion questions in the back of this book. Do you use Do you
Janice Porter:have like? Is it something you would do, like, do a course on a
Janice Porter:Pro D Day professional day for teachers to show them how to do
Janice Porter:this book? That kind of thing?
Karl Hebenstreit:Absolutely. And it of course, it's intended
Karl Hebenstreit:for children. But at some point, some of the children may be too
Karl Hebenstreit:young to read it. So the adults who read it to them will also
Karl Hebenstreit:get a lot out of it. Of course, of course.
Janice Porter:So all right. Tell me first of all, how did
Janice Porter:this come about? For you? How did you get interested in this
Janice Porter:model in this piece? And when like a long time
Karl Hebenstreit:ago, or it was a long time ago? I didn't know
Karl Hebenstreit:anything about the Enneagram? I think it's right now it's it's
Karl Hebenstreit:very popular, or it's gaining a lot of popularity, and people
Karl Hebenstreit:really do know about it, or are finding out about it in a
Karl Hebenstreit:variety of different ways. Whether it's through pop
Karl Hebenstreit:culture, and quickly go answer this one question will tell you
Karl Hebenstreit:what your Enneagram type is, or actually studying it for
Karl Hebenstreit:different reasons for spiritual development or personal
Karl Hebenstreit:development or leadership development for maybe they're
Karl Hebenstreit:they have a psychologist that they're working with, and the
Karl Hebenstreit:psychologist has brought it up to help them with it. But the
Karl Hebenstreit:the way that I found out about it was when I was in graduate
Karl Hebenstreit:school, going for my PhD in organizational psychology. And
Karl Hebenstreit:this was back then it was called the California School of
Karl Hebenstreit:Professional Psychology in San Francisco. And what I didn't
Karl Hebenstreit:know anything about it, I was Myers Briggs, I was disc I know
Karl Hebenstreit:and all about those things I was using when I thought they were
Karl Hebenstreit:the bomb. It was awesome. It was great. And then I went to this
Karl Hebenstreit:one class, and it wasn't even an entire semester of it. It was
Karl Hebenstreit:just one class out of that that semester for that one, one class
Karl Hebenstreit:that I was taking one, one second. And the professor that I
Karl Hebenstreit:had for the class, somehow fortunately, knew Helen Palmer
Karl Hebenstreit:and invited Helen Palmer, to come to our class to teach us
Karl Hebenstreit:about the Enneagram introduced the Enneagram to us, and I
Karl Hebenstreit:didn't know who Helen Palmer was. And Helen Palmer is huge.
Karl Hebenstreit:Helen Palmer is one of this probably the reason why the
Karl Hebenstreit:Enneagram is in in is popular in culture right now because up
Karl Hebenstreit:until she wrote a book about the Enneagram. Back in the I would
Karl Hebenstreit:say 1970s. The Enneagram was not taught to the public. It was a
Karl Hebenstreit:very esoteric, very very secretive type of program. Um,
Karl Hebenstreit:that was taught for Spiritual Development actually, yeah,
Karl Hebenstreit:yeah. Okay. Yeah. So she wrote it down, she popularized it. She
Karl Hebenstreit:said, You know, the world started learning about it, and
Karl Hebenstreit:then other people started applying it. But anyway, going
Karl Hebenstreit:back to the class, she came, and she taught us about the
Karl Hebenstreit:Enneagram. And my mind was absolutely blown, I would just
Karl Hebenstreit:expanded, I didn't even think about the differences between
Karl Hebenstreit:behaviors that the other instruments were measuring, like
Karl Hebenstreit:the Myers Briggs, a disc, and Hogan and all those, versus the
Karl Hebenstreit:actual motivation that was driving those behaviors. And I
Karl Hebenstreit:kept thinking about all the different applications that I
Karl Hebenstreit:could use this in human resources, because I was in
Karl Hebenstreit:human resources. And thinking, wow, we're not even tapping into
Karl Hebenstreit:a third of, of what we should be tapping into, we are not
Karl Hebenstreit:engaging and motivating employees appropriately,
Karl Hebenstreit:according to what they want. We're just focusing on just a
Karl Hebenstreit:couple different archetypes, hear a couple different energies
Karl Hebenstreit:here. And we're missing the boat on all these others. So I
Karl Hebenstreit:immediately decided that I was going to dive deeper into
Karl Hebenstreit:researching it, and did my dissertation on it. And it was
Karl Hebenstreit:how to help organizations attract, retain and motivate
Karl Hebenstreit:employees. So
Janice Porter:you discovered if I get this correctly, that from
Janice Porter:your experience with the other tools that are used in business
Janice Porter:like disc and, and the personality type things, and so
Janice Porter:on, that this was much deeper, and there is much to it, and
Janice Porter:would be a much better overall tool to use in business there
Janice Porter:are so you that was your premise, you want to find out
Janice Porter:right? And
Karl Hebenstreit:absolutely. And it really goes along to what
Karl Hebenstreit:you talk about on your podcast, but the relationships about the
Karl Hebenstreit:connections, right? So if we just see someone's behavior, we
Karl Hebenstreit:have no idea why they're behaving that way we and we make
Karl Hebenstreit:assumptions, we make assumptions based on our interpretations or
Karl Hebenstreit:our limited worldview, because we have a certain worldview that
Karl Hebenstreit:we're looking at the world through. And if we actually get
Karl Hebenstreit:to know them, and find out what's important to them, what
Karl Hebenstreit:their values are, what their drivers are, what motivates
Karl Hebenstreit:them, what's important to them what their hot buttons are,
Karl Hebenstreit:right, then we'll understand what's important to them. And we
Karl Hebenstreit:will have better relationships, deeper relationships with them.
Karl Hebenstreit:Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll limit conflict, because we will be
Karl Hebenstreit:interpreting things in a in a in a bad way. We're looking at, you
Karl Hebenstreit:know, why they're actually doing it and will actually be able to
Karl Hebenstreit:better communicate and influence them looking at giving them
Karl Hebenstreit:exactly what they need, as opposed to extraneous stuff that
Karl Hebenstreit:they may not be interested in. Okay,
Janice Porter:so just to simplify it for me and my
Janice Porter:audience. So in the children's book, you show that this, Nina
Janice Porter:goes to see all of these different friends of hers, and
Janice Porter:each one of them has a different number. So she did exactly
Janice Porter:right. And those are the numbers on the the Enneagram. And each
Janice Porter:one of those is a different person. Would you say?
Janice Porter:personality type? No.
Karl Hebenstreit:It's called a Personality Typing system just
Karl Hebenstreit:to simplify it. And it's much more than that. Right. Okay.
Janice Porter:So I was looking, though, in your book, The other
Janice Porter:book, is there a quick test? I can I could have taken which I
Janice Porter:should have asked you beforehand to see which number I was. And I
Janice Porter:know we have different pieces of different ones in us, but we
Janice Porter:must have.
Karl Hebenstreit:Or, yeah, I mean, one or what? What did you
Karl Hebenstreit:score type? I mean, type
Janice Porter:four? Yeah, of course. Exactly. So is there a
Janice Porter:quick test online that people can take? There
Karl Hebenstreit:are so many of them are much more valid than
Karl Hebenstreit:others? Take? Yeah, I'm happy to I'll send you a link.
Janice Porter:I use the Can you tell what somebody is? Okay. So
Janice Porter:what do you think?
Karl Hebenstreit:I don't know. I couldn't so we're not. We
Karl Hebenstreit:should never be looking to guess or identify someone's type
Karl Hebenstreit:without them telling us because we don't know what's going on.
Karl Hebenstreit:We're not mind reader's. We don't know what's going on for
Karl Hebenstreit:them. We have no idea what they're thinking what they're
Karl Hebenstreit:feeling. And what they're
Janice Porter:Yeah, I broke, wrote them all down from the
Janice Porter:kids book. Yeah. Okay. So that I could get a sense of them. And I
Janice Porter:still I didn't know I'm not sure. I there's a couple that
Janice Porter:feel like me. Yeah. But it definitely, you know, I think,
Janice Porter:do
Karl Hebenstreit:you want are you are you willing to share
Karl Hebenstreit:which ones they are?
Janice Porter:Yeah, well, I think Sure, of course. So. Do
Janice Porter:you want to do you want to go through what the nine are? Yeah,
Janice Porter:absolutely.
Karl Hebenstreit:Yeah. So in the children's books, since
Karl Hebenstreit:we're focusing on that the types are one through nine. And the
Karl Hebenstreit:names are also indicative of the type. So type one is one right
Karl Hebenstreit:to two is chewing Nene as a type nine, so she's Nino's nine.
Karl Hebenstreit:Eight is Kate. So the type one which is the type we all have,
Karl Hebenstreit:and as you said, we have all nine of these energies within us
Karl Hebenstreit:to certain extents and we can access all nine of these
Karl Hebenstreit:energies within us. It just takes us to focus on which one
Karl Hebenstreit:is appropriate for that. moment for that situation. So if we
Karl Hebenstreit:look at, I'm going to simplify it even further, I'm gonna look
Karl Hebenstreit:at into groups of three. And maybe the types that you
Karl Hebenstreit:selected are fall into one, each of these groups of three. So we
Karl Hebenstreit:have the heart types, we have the head types, or thinking
Karl Hebenstreit:types. And we have the body or action types. So if we start,
Karl Hebenstreit:let's start with the heart types. So the twos, the threes,
Karl Hebenstreit:and the fours are the heart types. So the type two energy is
Karl Hebenstreit:all about intuitively reaching out and knowing what other
Karl Hebenstreit:people need. So always having these feelers out, that are
Karl Hebenstreit:looking and understanding what other people's needs are, and
Karl Hebenstreit:meeting those needs or wanting to help people meet those needs,
Karl Hebenstreit:even if the person hasn't asked for the help themselves. Yes.
Karl Hebenstreit:Okay. So that's where the twos can get into trouble with that,
Karl Hebenstreit:yes, it's that intuition of knowing what other people need
Karl Hebenstreit:and suppressing their own needs in the moment, right, they're
Karl Hebenstreit:always looking at other people's needs, and not necessarily their
Karl Hebenstreit:own. So that's the path the superpower, the twos have that
Karl Hebenstreit:intuition of, of meeting other people's needs, and wanting to
Karl Hebenstreit:be liked and appreciated for that. So the type three heart
Karl Hebenstreit:energy or feeling energy, is seeing what other people's needs
Karl Hebenstreit:are, but also maybe pushing their own needs down in service
Karl Hebenstreit:of achieving goals. They're always about goal, attainment,
Karl Hebenstreit:goal achievement, meeting the objectives. So that's the type
Karl Hebenstreit:three, that's the so the two is the Giver, or helper, the three
Karl Hebenstreit:is more about performing and achieving. And then type four
Karl Hebenstreit:heart energy is taking all of those energies in all those
Karl Hebenstreit:feelings and very empathically feeling what other people are
Karl Hebenstreit:feeling, feeling, what they're feeling themselves, and really
Karl Hebenstreit:being in those feelings, and wanting to be appreciated for
Karl Hebenstreit:being special, unique and different. So those are the
Karl Hebenstreit:heart's types. And each of us whether it's our primary or not,
Karl Hebenstreit:are going to really be attracted to one of those three, because
Karl Hebenstreit:that's how we everyone accesses their heart. Everyone has
Karl Hebenstreit:feelings, everyone feels so how do you basically feel you feel
Karl Hebenstreit:through one of those, those three energies or lenses, so
Karl Hebenstreit:it's up to you to decide which one of those that is, and I
Karl Hebenstreit:don't know, if the some of the that you picked, if one of them
Karl Hebenstreit:is in the two, three or four range? One of them is, yeah, so
Karl Hebenstreit:probably, that's probably your feeling style. Yeah. So from the
Karl Hebenstreit:feeling center, we then go to the thinking center, the head
Karl Hebenstreit:center, and those are the fives, the sixes and the sevens. So
Karl Hebenstreit:think of them as thinking styles. So the five is all about
Karl Hebenstreit:objectivity. The sixth is about worst case, scenario planning.
Karl Hebenstreit:And the seven is all about positive outcomes and
Karl Hebenstreit:opportunities. So the fives energy is really all about
Karl Hebenstreit:collecting all this random data that's out there and making it
Karl Hebenstreit:make sense grading models to make it make sense, so that they
Karl Hebenstreit:can predict what's possibly going to be happening in the
Karl Hebenstreit:future, and they can be prepared for it and not look foolish.
Karl Hebenstreit:That's what the five is really all about. Fantastic at creating
Karl Hebenstreit:synthesizing this information, making it make sense. The six is
Karl Hebenstreit:great at planning, because they're always looking at worst
Karl Hebenstreit:case scenario situations, because they want to feel safe,
Karl Hebenstreit:comfortable and secure. So they are looking for the safety of a
Karl Hebenstreit:tribe. They're people, they are looking at, not necessarily to
Karl Hebenstreit:throw a monkey wrench into things, but to prepare for the
Karl Hebenstreit:worst case in case it does happen. And then they know what
Karl Hebenstreit:to do. So they can be safe, comfortable, secure, and still
Karl Hebenstreit:achieve the goal. And they the Warriors. They do worry, but
Karl Hebenstreit:other types can worry as well. Okay. Or, and other types can
Karl Hebenstreit:worry as well. And the seven is the optimist, right? So it's all
Karl Hebenstreit:about opportunities, and adventures and experiences, and
Karl Hebenstreit:just really taking advantage of all the different options that
Karl Hebenstreit:are out there brainstorming. So those are all the head styles
Karl Hebenstreit:that think the thinking styles, right? And each of us is going
Karl Hebenstreit:to have one of these as our preferred mode of thinking. Not
Karl Hebenstreit:that we can't think through the other two styles as well. But
Karl Hebenstreit:those are secondary, or they take more focus for us to think
Karl Hebenstreit:that way. So you probably I don't know if one of the top
Karl Hebenstreit:that you came up with isn't one of those categories. In that
Karl Hebenstreit:thinking style. Yeah,
Janice Porter:I get more confused as we go on here. But
Karl Hebenstreit:oh, no, it's meant to be
Janice Porter:because I know that that some of what I some of
Janice Porter:how I operate is logical and let's get the facts and then
Janice Porter:let's organize sort of the analyst type. But that's not my
Janice Porter:primary. I don't think I think I'm much more about people and
Janice Porter:making friends making other people feel comfortable. And but
Janice Porter:I'm also about loyalty. So yeah, yeah. So
Karl Hebenstreit:so those are not mutually exclusive, and
Karl Hebenstreit:correct. Oh, you do have because there is it's called your
Karl Hebenstreit:triadic style or try fix or try type. So you will have a top
Karl Hebenstreit:energy in each of these centers and one of those will be your
Karl Hebenstreit:primary. Okay? Okay, if you're not identifying that the
Karl Hebenstreit:thinking style is your primary focus, it may be because your
Karl Hebenstreit:heart, your heart center, you lead with your heart. So you,
Karl Hebenstreit:you will have one of those heart styles as your primary, but you
Karl Hebenstreit:still have a thinking style. Okay. And you still have an
Karl Hebenstreit:action style. Yeah, so
Janice Porter:that's the third one is the action style,
Karl Hebenstreit:this action or body or gut? Yes. So there are
Karl Hebenstreit:eights, nines, and ones. So are eight. So if you think about it,
Karl Hebenstreit:so you have the feeling, you have the thinking, and then you
Karl Hebenstreit:have to do something with it like you felt. You've thought,
Karl Hebenstreit:Now what do I do with it? So then you take action. So the
Karl Hebenstreit:eights are all about taking action immediately leading
Karl Hebenstreit:executing are the boss protectors, generals. Yeah, they
Karl Hebenstreit:they they're about control, power, authority, justice, truth
Karl Hebenstreit:they want to there's truth seekers, they want to know what
Karl Hebenstreit:the truth is. They don't care what the truth is, they just
Karl Hebenstreit:want to know what the truth is. They don't sugarcoat it for
Karl Hebenstreit:them. Yeah, just give them what it is. And they will deal with
Karl Hebenstreit:it. They are great with conflict, they see conflict and
Karl Hebenstreit:debate as a way to get to truth. They don't necessarily like
Karl Hebenstreit:conflict, but they see it as a tool to get there. And they're
Karl Hebenstreit:the ones that are most comfortable with conflict,
Karl Hebenstreit:because all the other styles are not necessarily looking to have
Karl Hebenstreit:conflict or embrace conflict. And the eights again, don't love
Karl Hebenstreit:it. But they see it as a way to get to truth, which is what
Karl Hebenstreit:they're seeking. Ultimately, the nines don't like conflict at
Karl Hebenstreit:all. They're the peacemakers. They're the peacekeepers,
Karl Hebenstreit:they're like Don't rock the boat, let's just not, you know,
Karl Hebenstreit:let's just all get along. And they're great at looking at the
Karl Hebenstreit:entire system, they're looking at every single little bit of
Karl Hebenstreit:every little option and component, and seeing the value
Karl Hebenstreit:and positivity that it brings, and the value that it all brings
Karl Hebenstreit:together to the system. Everything comes together and
Karl Hebenstreit:works. And the type one is looking at things as well,
Karl Hebenstreit:what's the right thing to do in this situation? Maybe it's
Karl Hebenstreit:according to their values, their morals or ethics, but it's
Karl Hebenstreit:always about doing the right thing. What's the right thing to
Karl Hebenstreit:do, and having the sense of perfectionism we I need to do it
Karl Hebenstreit:perfectly.
Janice Porter:So So tell me what, what type this question or
Janice Porter:statement brings up? Because right away when you started, and
Janice Porter:you said, well, let's do it into three, three sections, which I
Janice Porter:love that you did that. But right away, I was annoyed. Why
Janice Porter:isn't it 1234567? Why?
Karl Hebenstreit:So okay, so there were a couple of answers
Karl Hebenstreit:for that. Sure. So some types are predisposed to be focused
Karl Hebenstreit:on, I needed to be in a certain way I need to be in order, I
Karl Hebenstreit:need speed following certain rules. So the type ones can
Karl Hebenstreit:definitely fall into that category. The type fives,
Karl Hebenstreit:remember, the fives wanted the system to want to be
Karl Hebenstreit:predictable. So the fives might be a little annoyed at that as
Karl Hebenstreit:well. Yes. And if you look at it as a system, and they might say,
Karl Hebenstreit:oh, yeah, it doesn't matter. It's arbitrary, where you start
Karl Hebenstreit:as long as it fits within the system. And there's a reason for
Karl Hebenstreit:it. And there is a reason for why we why it's not 123 is the
Karl Hebenstreit:heart styles and 345 as the feelings that as the thinking
Karl Hebenstreit:styles. So it so when you actually see the symbol, there
Karl Hebenstreit:are lines that connect each point to two other points on the
Karl Hebenstreit:circle. Okay, and one of those lines is your, you want to call
Karl Hebenstreit:it your stretch or your stress line. So where you will go under
Karl Hebenstreit:stress or stretch. Yep, exactly. Okay, got it. And the other line
Karl Hebenstreit:is your comfort or release line, which is where you will go to
Karl Hebenstreit:comfort and you'll learn from both of those lines, those are
Karl Hebenstreit:the easiest, and most impactful if you want to look at it that
Karl Hebenstreit:way lines to learn from for your growth and development. Because
Karl Hebenstreit:you want to go to the high side, and there are high sides and low
Karl Hebenstreit:sides for each different energy, right? Yeah, there's the
Karl Hebenstreit:positive and then there's the creative side and the reactive
Karl Hebenstreit:negative side on the unhealthy side. So you always want to
Karl Hebenstreit:strive to go for the healthy and creative.
Janice Porter:And so that's why the one never sits in the right
Janice Porter:place. Is that why? Because
Karl Hebenstreit:yeah. Oh, it's in the right place for this
Karl Hebenstreit:system.
Janice Porter:All right. Yes. See, I guess there's some
Janice Porter:perfectionist in me as well. I thought it was interesting that
Janice Porter:the the, I think it's type seven is one of it's the adventure and
Janice Porter:the cure. Yeah, it's interesting.
Karl Hebenstreit:I think you're in the sense of wanting to
Karl Hebenstreit:experience everything.
Janice Porter:Okay. Everything food, it's not just food. It's
Janice Porter:tasty. It's
Karl Hebenstreit:everything. It's experiences. Yeah. Okay. So
Janice Porter:really fascinating. And it's funny
Janice Porter:because I was talking to somebody I think it was someone
Janice Porter:I interviewed. Yes, the day before yesterday. And she is had
Janice Porter:the Enneagram was one of her things that she did about you
Janice Porter:and showed her your book because she hadn't heard of you, but a
Janice Porter:leadership coach or an executive coach. And yeah, she might be an
Janice Porter:interesting person for you to talk to actually, she's
Janice Porter:absolutely brilliant. And she Yeah, I think that's who it was.
Janice Porter:And I'll double check after our call. But yeah, I'd
Karl Hebenstreit:love that connection. Yeah.
Janice Porter:And, and so I can see, whichever, whichever model
Janice Porter:I've seen in the past, and I've, you know, I've experienced the
Janice Porter:disc and the other ones, you mentioned, the Myers Briggs,
Janice Porter:that was long time ago. Oh, yeah, the color ones. And then
Janice Porter:there was another one that was I forget the name of it. But you
Janice Porter:know, I wrote down when I was looking that number number
Janice Porter:seven, I thought of the promoter, I thought of the PERT
Janice Porter:like, number, whereas number eight are like the, the
Janice Porter:controller. So there was another one I did somewhere the
Janice Porter:controller, the promoter, the analyst, and the the blue, which
Janice Porter:I guess it was the title, that's
Karl Hebenstreit:disk that is disk. So when there's those four
Karl Hebenstreit:categories, and they have those names, so the the red is the for
Karl Hebenstreit:the dominant, the D, right? Those are the assertive types.
Karl Hebenstreit:So our threes are sevens, and our eights would fall into that
Karl Hebenstreit:category. Yeah. So so there's
Janice Porter:a lot of similarity, because of course,
Janice Porter:you only have certain attributes, right? But for me,
Janice Porter:any, I don't think I've ever had one stick with me in terms of
Janice Porter:being able to see that in other people, except maybe it was the
Janice Porter:disk because that's the one I remember. I remember, I see my,
Janice Porter:my daughter is such a promoter, she's a salesperson, she's an
Janice Porter:active person, she's like, let's get this done, you know,
Janice Porter:thinking about it. And I can see and I'm a dominant person in
Janice Porter:like, I'm the Bossy one. And you know, I want to get order and
Janice Porter:organized and get everybody happening. And then my sister is
Janice Porter:like, wants everyone to wants peace for everybody wants to
Karl Hebenstreit:you know, she's the nine energy. Yeah, so
Karl Hebenstreit:I
Janice Porter:can see those things. And this just gives
Janice Porter:another dimension to everything, right?
Karl Hebenstreit:It explains the reason behind it, the hind
Karl Hebenstreit:end. So what is the reason for the need to be dominant? Or the
Karl Hebenstreit:behavior of being dominant? Yeah, right, is it the need for
Karl Hebenstreit:and by the way, one of the subtypes for the type one can
Karl Hebenstreit:also be very dominant. We haven't even discussed subtypes,
Karl Hebenstreit:that's getting a lot deeper, the different instincts or three
Karl Hebenstreit:different instincts, which creates subtypes. And anyway, so
Karl Hebenstreit:the, the, you know, what's the reason for the dominance, the
Karl Hebenstreit:behavior of dominance? Is it the need to control? Or is it the
Karl Hebenstreit:need to be able to be free and have autonomy? And that way,
Karl Hebenstreit:you're able to control your destiny by doing all these
Karl Hebenstreit:different things, to prove yourself? Or is it for meeting
Karl Hebenstreit:some certain goal of, you know, proving yourself that I can I
Karl Hebenstreit:can achieve this goal, this is the goal that I put for myself,
Karl Hebenstreit:and I'm going to achieve it. Prove yourself to somebody else,
Karl Hebenstreit:it could also be for the type three as well. Yeah, there's
Janice Porter:so many different things that that come to mind.
Janice Porter:Okay, so how do you who in in a business environment is going to
Janice Porter:use this isn't going to be the HR people? Or, you know, does it
Janice Porter:have to come from the top down? I'm not even a corporate person.
Janice Porter:But I'm just curious, you know?
Karl Hebenstreit:So the answer is everyone, okay? Everyone can
Karl Hebenstreit:benefit from it. So ideally, if it becomes part of an
Karl Hebenstreit:organization's culture, and the leadership team embraces it, and
Karl Hebenstreit:says, Wow, I can see the value in this and this works with my
Karl Hebenstreit:leadership team. And then this is exactly what I've
Karl Hebenstreit:experienced, right? I've gone in, I've done it at the
Karl Hebenstreit:deliberative workshop for the top leadership team. They all
Karl Hebenstreit:get it and they say, Wow, I need this for my leadership team and
Karl Hebenstreit:their leadership teams and for their direct reports and their
Karl Hebenstreit:direct reports. And that's how it really takes,
Janice Porter:it has to start at the top really, generally
Janice Porter:speaking, it does
Karl Hebenstreit:have to start at the top and it can also
Karl Hebenstreit:bubble up from the bottom. It could be a grassroots effort. So
Karl Hebenstreit:different I've seen it happen where people go from one
Karl Hebenstreit:organization to another, it's been Ingram is not in that
Karl Hebenstreit:organization. They start using with their team, other parts of
Karl Hebenstreit:the organization, see this successes that they're having is
Karl Hebenstreit:a hold on a second, this is great, let's use it to so then
Karl Hebenstreit:it starts bubbling and it goes up. Okay. So it's whatever
Karl Hebenstreit:works. The answer is whatever works for the situation, the
Karl Hebenstreit:culture or the organization. And it really is readiness, the
Karl Hebenstreit:person's readiness, the leaders readiness, the employees
Karl Hebenstreit:readiness, the organization's readiness to seems readiness,
Karl Hebenstreit:just everyone's readiness. How ready are they for?
Janice Porter:We knew the children's book. What age group
Janice Porter:did you have in mind?
Karl Hebenstreit:I think that it would probably apply best.
Karl Hebenstreit:And again, it depends on the the advanced meant of the children.
Karl Hebenstreit:Probably starting the earliest if eight. Yeah, so I was gonna
Karl Hebenstreit:say, Yeah, eight. Definitely the 10 year olds get it immediately.
Janice Porter:I would say grade three or four. Yeah,
Karl Hebenstreit:yeah. So interesting.
Janice Porter:Yeah. To, to use that in a school. I as I said, I
Janice Porter:taught school a long time ago. You just came back from a cruise
Janice Porter:in we got to do a presentation on your cruise. Yes. Of the
Janice Porter:Enneagram. And that's exciting. So yeah, what 250 People in the
Janice Porter:US now, they weren't on a on an educational tour, they were on a
Janice Porter:Yo,
Karl Hebenstreit:they were on a vacation there. All the ports
Karl Hebenstreit:that we visited were truly islands with beaches. So people
Karl Hebenstreit:were going out there and snorkeling and swimming and
Karl Hebenstreit:laying on the beach. So this was definitely not part of their
Karl Hebenstreit:agenda.
Janice Porter:250 people showed up. So that's
Karl Hebenstreit:pretty nice. Well, it was a captive audience.
Janice Porter:But But no, but they didn't have to come right?
Janice Porter:No, they
Karl Hebenstreit:didn't. There were plenty of other
Karl Hebenstreit:opportunities I was up against. I think there was a poker
Karl Hebenstreit:tournament or something going on. There were other things
Karl Hebenstreit:going on.
Janice Porter:So tell me tell me how that of that audience I'm
Janice Porter:I'm imagining? I don't know that you ask them if they'd heard of
Janice Porter:it. Yes. Okay. How many
Karl Hebenstreit:of you had I was, so throughout the cruise, I
Karl Hebenstreit:was asking people when I was meeting people, you know, I was
Karl Hebenstreit:telling them, I'm going to be doing this on the last day or
Karl Hebenstreit:last see day. And you know, come if you're interested, you don't
Karl Hebenstreit:have to come. But this what we'll be talking about
Janice Porter:very few people. You were promoting,
Karl Hebenstreit:I was promoting, they were promoting
Karl Hebenstreit:for me. And they did a video that they shot a video and they
Karl Hebenstreit:were and I was on the front page of their little daily newspaper
Karl Hebenstreit:and everything like that. So it was great. But the thing that I
Karl Hebenstreit:found out was, and this was mostly Australians, because the
Karl Hebenstreit:cruise ship left from Sydney. And but it was people from all
Karl Hebenstreit:around the world. And the thing that I found out was that most
Karl Hebenstreit:people did not know about the Enneagram. Sometimes if they did
Karl Hebenstreit:it was because they were clinical psychologists. And so I
Karl Hebenstreit:didn't know who was going to show up at the workshop at the
Karl Hebenstreit:one hour seminar. And I asked at the beginning of the seminar,
Karl Hebenstreit:how many people had heard of the Enneagram were you anything
Karl Hebenstreit:about it, and less than a dozen raise their hands.
Janice Porter:So that was afterwards,
Karl Hebenstreit:a lot of people came up to me and said
Karl Hebenstreit:this was incredible. And it was really opened up their eyes,
Karl Hebenstreit:they didn't know what to expect it and know anything about it.
Karl Hebenstreit:And it was really very powerful for them and
Janice Porter:impactful. Now, I think I said to you when I first
Janice Porter:met you that my recollection of anything that was connected,
Janice Porter:because I had heard the word I knew what basically it was, it
Janice Porter:went back to a time when I did a course on the 24 Sacred gifts.
Janice Porter:And the women that taught me that also had studied the
Janice Porter:Enneagram. And I felt there was this religious or spiritual
Janice Porter:connection. Can
Karl Hebenstreit:you see? Yes, yes. So the origins of the
Karl Hebenstreit:Enneagram are ancient and mystic. So the symbol itself is
Karl Hebenstreit:a Sufi symbol. And the the actual concept can be traced
Karl Hebenstreit:back 1000s of years because if you look at the Odyssey, and
Karl Hebenstreit:Odysseus, his travels, Homer's Odyssey, it's actually the
Karl Hebenstreit:Enneagram in order the lands visited or the Enneagram in
Karl Hebenstreit:order, yes. And visited. Yes, are the Enneagram in order
Karl Hebenstreit:there's a book Michael Goldberg has written a book about this.
Karl Hebenstreit:And he shows how the Odyssey is really the Enneagram, the story
Karl Hebenstreit:of the Enneagram all the different lands on the
Karl Hebenstreit:Enneagram. Russ Hudson does a great trip every I think he does
Karl Hebenstreit:it pretty much annually a trip to Egypt to show all the
Karl Hebenstreit:different symbols and we're in the in the pyramids embedded in
Karl Hebenstreit:the pyramids or Enneagram concepts. So it's really
Karl Hebenstreit:fascinating to see how old it is. And we'll never know exactly
Karl Hebenstreit:what the origins are, but we do see it around the world
Karl Hebenstreit:pervasively. So
Janice Porter:your goal now is as a speaker, right to go and
Janice Porter:spread the word so to speak.
Karl Hebenstreit:Yeah, I want to make people's lives easier. I
Karl Hebenstreit:want to make their relationships easier. I want them to have more
Karl Hebenstreit:effective relationships. Do better at work, be better people
Karl Hebenstreit:be better human beings and just living easier, better life.
Janice Porter:And and if they study the Enneagram and the the
Janice Porter:MO motivations behind our actions, we'll learn more about
Janice Porter:each other, we'll be able to get along better. Absolutely
Karl Hebenstreit:think of it as emotional intelligence. Because
Karl Hebenstreit:emotional intelligence building, you start with self awareness
Karl Hebenstreit:first. So understanding what your own drivers have been in
Karl Hebenstreit:will be will continue to be thriving in our lives. Because
Karl Hebenstreit:your, your core Enneagram motivation will stay with you
Karl Hebenstreit:for your entire life. It's just the expansion. It's the and so
Karl Hebenstreit:in addition to that, let me see if I can integrate the other
Karl Hebenstreit:eight styles and make sure that I'm not only fixated and looking
Karl Hebenstreit:at the world without one lens, right and thinking that other
Karl Hebenstreit:people are also looking at it that same way. So then when you
Karl Hebenstreit:realize that other people don't, then you empathize with their
Karl Hebenstreit:perspective
Janice Porter:and adapt as accordingly, ultimately, is
Karl Hebenstreit:the third point adapting and integrating
Karl Hebenstreit:it and using it. So bringing it into your own worldview,
Karl Hebenstreit:expanding your own worldview, to realize that it's not just that
Karl Hebenstreit:one style or motivation or perspective, it's all of them.
Karl Hebenstreit:That's
Janice Porter:amazing. And it's actually a great way, a great
Janice Porter:place to stop, because we've kind of come full circle now.
Janice Porter:It's right, we understand a little bit more about the
Janice Porter:Enneagram. I hope my audience does. I know I do. And I want to
Janice Porter:go and find out a little bit more. And I also see the value
Janice Porter:in what you're, you're now this is a new, a new journey for you.
Janice Porter:Right? Because do you were you teaching by the way? Or were you
Janice Porter:in?
Karl Hebenstreit:So I found out about the Enneagram. Back last
Karl Hebenstreit:century, if you're looking at buying is probably the when I
Karl Hebenstreit:started my journey? Yeah, but
Janice Porter:were you in corporate yourself? I
Karl Hebenstreit:was I was in corporate up about two years
Karl Hebenstreit:ago. Yeah. But I was still using the Enneagram in my
Karl Hebenstreit:organizations in the organization. So
Janice Porter:now you're going out on your own now you're the
Janice Porter:author, speaker circuit. So it's exactly you know, on lighten a
Janice Porter:lot more people's lives and, and businesses about the Enneagram.
Karl Hebenstreit:So it's my hope, that was my dream.
Janice Porter:I think it's Yeah, I think not a hope more of
Janice Porter:a dream, I think it'll happen. I think it's interesting that
Janice Porter:people are so much today in need of the softer side of things.
Janice Porter:And and, and also, like you said, it's always stays with you
Janice Porter:the world's changing and is crazy right now. But those kinds
Janice Porter:of things, we need to understand people and be aware of what's
Janice Porter:going on for a lot of people,
Karl Hebenstreit:right? And going back to your audience, the
Karl Hebenstreit:value in the Enneagram for your audience is if you're a leader,
Karl Hebenstreit:knowing about what your predispositions are finding out
Karl Hebenstreit:about your direct reports, your team's ways that what motivates
Karl Hebenstreit:them, so you can engage them and motivate them and retain them.
Karl Hebenstreit:Right? If you're in sales, or marketing, really knowing I was
Karl Hebenstreit:just part of the Samsung just did a launch yesterday for their
Karl Hebenstreit:new product. And I tuned into it. And I was fascinated to see
Karl Hebenstreit:that they touched on every single Enneagram point what
Karl Hebenstreit:would be of interest to each of the nine different styles. So
Karl Hebenstreit:that so that you wouldn't leave anyone out, they will be very
Karl Hebenstreit:inclusive. So it's really about inclusion, right, including all
Karl Hebenstreit:diverse perspectives and needs. So if you're a sales and
Karl Hebenstreit:marketing perspective, if you make sure that you touch on all
Karl Hebenstreit:of those focal areas that each of these nine energies is
Karl Hebenstreit:looking for, or their comfort, then you you will know that
Karl Hebenstreit:you've addressed the needs of your stakeholders of your
Karl Hebenstreit:clients or your potential customers. So it's for HR, same
Karl Hebenstreit:thing, how do you work with your leaders and the employees like
Karl Hebenstreit:finding out what's important for them, creating systems that will
Karl Hebenstreit:really motivate them and engage them. So this is really a system
Karl Hebenstreit:that can help bring everything together?
Janice Porter:That's amazing. So I agree. Yeah, no, I think
Janice Porter:that's great. And I'm really glad that you came to talk to me
Janice Porter:and my audience about it, because I think they'll spread
Janice Porter:the word, you know, and we'll get some more people interested
Janice Porter:in so I will in the shownotes, where can people get these? I'll
Janice Porter:put it in the show notes on Amazon or
Karl Hebenstreit:on Amazon. They're in bookstores. Yeah. So
Karl Hebenstreit:absolutely, feel free to review. So I'm on LinkedIn, of course my
Karl Hebenstreit:website is perform and function.com. So it's like a
Karl Hebenstreit:play on words form and function, but it's perform and function
Karl Hebenstreit:and you spell out the end percent side. So it's p e r f o
Karl Hebenstreit:r m a n d, fu MC T io n.com. And my LinkedIn is our Carl had been
Karl Hebenstreit:striped, and Carl's with a que.
Janice Porter:Got it. And I'll put all that in the show notes.
Janice Porter:So thank you so much for being here. Thank you for coming today
Janice Porter:and spending some time with us. And thank you to my audience
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Karl Hebenstreit:you Janice thank you everyone