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The Power of Personality

How Understanding Your Team Elevates Your Leadership.

February 12, 2019 by Michael Hyatt

Leaders must motivate people. The problem is that everybody’s different, so what inspires one team member may demotivate another. It can be confusing to lead a diverse team. But personality is not an unsolvable puzzle. We’ve identified three personality assessments that will give you a clear understanding of how your team members think, feel, and […]

Filed Under: Lead to Win, Leadership Tagged With: leaderhship, Leadership Development, Leadership Lessons, personality, personality assessments

How to Break out of Business as Usual

The Enneagram Solution to Upgrading Our Outmoded Conflict Responses

October 17, 2017 by Beatrice Chestnut

Whether we know it or not, we all rely on a few basic strategies for moving through the social world. Different people adopt different strategies. Some try to be helpful and friendly; others aim for perfection. Some try to be attractive and productive, while knowledge is the goal for others. The problem is that most […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: defensive, enneagram, Leadership, personality, self-assessment, self-awareness

How the Enneagram Can Help You Become a Better Leader

The Most Powerful Tool I’ve Found for Personal Development

October 12, 2016 by Michael Hyatt

Leading others starts with leading ourselves. That means leaders must be be committed to personal development if we’re going to have long-term success. But some paths to personal development are more direct than others. My friend Ian Cron is both a priest and a therapist. He’s also an expert in the Enneagram, an ancient personal-development […]

Filed Under: Leadership, Personal Development Tagged With: enneagram, Leadership, Personal Development, personality, personality type

How to Reach the Next Level of Team Performance

3 Personality Tests We Use to Boost Our Collaboration

August 31, 2016 by Michael Hyatt

I’m an assessment geek. I’m always looking to improve my own performance as well as my team’s. And I find measurement essential for upping our game. I first started using personality tests over a decade ago when I became the publisher of Nelson Books. It was a way for me to peek under the hood […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: collaboration, enneagram, Hiring, Leadership, personality, personality assessments, teamwork

Camels vs. Stallions

Knowing the Difference Can Eliminate the Friction on Your Team

July 6, 2016 by Michael Hyatt

Every team experiences friction. But there is one source of friction I’ve observed in almost every organization I’ve ever been involved with. It comes down to a simple distinction, and I bet you’ve noticed it too. Depending on what side of the distinction you come down on, it’s easy to get frustrated with people on […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: collaboration, diversity, personality, strengths, teamwork