The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "Sevens, the Need to be Happy" and will give you an in-depth view of the Enneagram personality type seven, the need to be happy.

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SEVENs, THE NEED TO
BE HAPPY
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Sevens, the Need
to be Happy
Introduction: If you look at the Enneagram model, you’ll find at point 7 the
type that needs to be happy. This type is in the Thinking group, those who
relate to the world through their thoughts. From this type come some of the
most enthusiastic and also some of the most hyperactive people. This type
shows us how to enjoy all aspects of life, even if it is to escape the dreary side.

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Sevens are enthusiastic, hyperactive, and busy
1. SEVENS
ARE
PERFORMERS
Sevens are the Performers in the Enneagram and
can be great assets in any organisation. Their days
are filled with activity. They often accomplish a
huge amount in a short space of time. They can
infect others with their enthusiasm. The only
problem is that they are difficult to control.
Activity is often pursued for its own sake. New
jobs are taken up without serious thought for
what is genuinely important or necessary. They
often seem to be busy for busy's sake or as an
excuse to be doing something new and exciting.

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2. A SUMMARY
OF SEVENS
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Sevens love the thrill of activity
Group: head or thinking group
Label: doers, experimenters, activists, go-fers
Roles: the cavalier, the Jack-of-all trades, the
buccaneer, the swashbuckler, the troubadour
Drive: the need to be happy
Symbols: monkeys, butterflies, parties,
anecdotes, escapist fiction, flight
Routes to growth: sober joy (like type Five)
Characteristics: decisive, quick, risk-taking,
change-oriented, optimistic, acquisitive,
whistlers-in-the-dark, bright and breezy,
enthusiastic.

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Sevens are always looking for ways to be happy
3. HOW TO
RECOGNISE A
SEVEN
Sevens are easy to recognise because of their
whirlwind lifestyle. At work, they are always busy;
outside work, they are multi-talented generalists.
They know a lot and can do a lot. Sevens appear
youthful even in later life. They like to wear
colourful clothing that makes them feel happy.
They rush about with some job always to be
done. They are garrulous story-tellers with the
gift of language and memory. They are always on
the look-out to meet new faces and are talented
at making people feel welcome.

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4. THE SEVEN
AT WORK
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For Sevens, life is like an endless carousel ride
Sevens love work: the more of it, the better. If it
doesn't come at them in a steady and varied
stream, they will make up plenty of plans of their
own. They don't like to stop. Sevens are
accomplished at everything they do, to the extent
that they can do several things at once. They
work quickly, speak quickly, eat quickly, tell their
stories quickly. The result of all this activity is that
Sevens often don't move forward: they go round
and round as if they were on a spinning
fairground carousel.

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The Seven organisation is built around fun
5. THE SEVEN-
TYPE
ORGANISATION
A Seven organisation has the following
characteristics: a. work is fun, the chance to do
many different things and ultimately to make
others happy; b. the organisation is loosely
structured; c. minimal interference from above; d.
ad-hocratic, ie anything goes; e. doing is much
more fun than analysing; f. hands-on; g. everyone
is expected to be committed, passionate and
have fun; h. high level of risk-taking coupled with
change if it doesn't work out; i. materialistic:
everyone has the latest gadget or toy.
A quintessential Seven organisation is Virgin, one
of whose stated values is "having fun".

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6.
NOTEWORTHY
SEVENS
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Actor RobinWilliams
Some noteworthy Sevens include: entrepreneur,
Sir Richard Branson; businesswoman, Anita
Roddick; business guru, Tom Peters; positive
thinking expert, Anthony Robbins; actor, Robin
Williams; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; William
Shakespeare.

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Impressionist Rory Bremner
7. "A
CHAMELEON ON
A PATCHWORK
QUILT"
Impressionist, Rory Bremner, is a Seven
personality type. This is how he describes one
whirlwind week of activity: "I got back from Africa
on Wednesday after a week on safari. Went to
the opera in the evening. Thursday I was at a
charity golf day and then did a cabaret at the
Dorchester. Then I went up to Scotland with
friends and took in some writing. Monday I did
"Call My Bluff" on the way down... If I was ever to
write an autobiography, I'd say I was a
"chameleon on a patchwork quilt"."

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This has been a Slide Topic from Manage Train Learn
AFinal
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To discover the Sevens on your team, ask yourself: "Who always has the latest gadget?"; "Who has
the best storyline in jokes?" and "Who tends to do their own thing without regard to others?”