This document outlines Ennea International's methodology for building high-performing teams called "The Nine Essentials". It discusses 9 key areas (Understanding Self, Understanding Others, etc.) that teams must develop in order to achieve high performance. For each area, it explains how the team will benefit (e.g. increase inclusion and integration). It also describes Ennea's multi-level certification program for practitioners to be trained in their team development methodology.

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The
Nine
Essentials™
for building
high performing
teams

2. 3. Through Understanding the Team, People will:
• Understand what a high-performance team looks like
and what “they” need to do to get there
• Maintain a healthy, constructive team environment, no
politics
• Unlock areas of “stuckness” and open the way to High
Performance
4. Through Managing Conflict Effectively, the
Team will:
• Move beyond the basic Forming or Storming stages to
High Performance
• Be able to constructively challenge each other
• Resolve issues timely
1. Through Understanding Self, People will:
• Become are less defensive and more likely to
contribute positively
• Have increased levels of engagement through
awareness of “avoidance patterns”
• Understand how their Personal Mastery facilitates a
learning organization
2. Through Understanding Others, People will:
• Learn to recognize and work with others’ similarities
and differences
• Increase inclusion & integration so the value of
diversity is recognized
• Shift from judging to appreciating
UnderstandingSelf
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UnderstandingOthers
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UnderstandingYourTeam
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UnderstandingConflict
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The Nine Essentials™
About Ennea International
At Ennea International we focus on Human
Development and, in particular, the building of
Personal Mastery, resulting in extraordinary
outcomes for individuals, leaders and teams.
We design and build products, develop
powerful processes and underpin our
programs with Systems Thinking and Integral
Coaching methodologies. At the core of our
organization sits the Ennea Faculty, which
delivers a number of certification trainings.

3. 5. Through Giving & Receiving Feedback,
the Team will:
• Improve through open and honest communication
• Develop and live a learning culture
• Recognize and enable great performance
6. Through Building Trust & Common Values,
the Team will
• Communicate without judgment
• Align around common values and develop a sense of
purpose
• Develop deeper meaningful relationships
7. Through Collaborating Effectively, the Team will
• Move beyond a silo mentality
• Work together instead of protecting self-interests
• Drive a culture of innovation and productivity
8. Through Developing Thinking Skills,
the Team will
• Enhance overall work product and output
• Enable problem solving, while still letting leaders lead
• Have more time to do the job they were hired to do
9. Through Building Resilience, the Team will
• Support each other in times of difficulty
• Embrace change and lead a path forward
• Build Emotional Maturity and Personal Mastery
“Teams are the
basic working
units of an
organization.
When teams are
healthy, the
organization is
healthy.”
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BuildingTrust
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ThinkingSkills
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BuildingResilience
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for Building High Performing Teams

4. Start your teams journey to high performance
Personal Mastery
The Personal Mastery Lens builds the ability to make
conscious choices. People with high levels of personal
mastery are able to self-observe; notice the language they
use and see how it affects their
current reality. They become aware
of their emotional state and the
impact it has on their physical being.
Seeing this allows them to become
less reactive to stressful situations
and more mindful, making proactive
choices that lead to better
relationships and happier lives. To
assess the level of Personal Mastery
we measure six key factors that
measure how consciously one
lives one’s life. Through
awareness, individuals are
able to work with these
factors and in the process
build their levels of Personal
Mastery in a proactive way.
Enneagram
The Enneagram Lens describes
nine ways of seeing and being in the
world and helps us conclude that the
biggest source of conflict is based on the
mistaken assumption that different people see the
world the same way. We understand that humans are
complex beings and we avoid ‘putting people into boxes’. We
use all nine patterns of behavior and what varies is the
frequency of use of the various patterns.
Our measure also indicates the degree of fixation on
particular patterns, opening and pointing out a pathway to
transformation.
Social Drives
The Social Drives Lens (derived from the body of work on the
Enneagram, Maslow and Barrett) deals with our progression
through the human needs of survival, affiliation and
achievement, moving into
transcendence. Our measure points
at our current focus creating valuable
developmental insight. By combining
the dominant Enneagram style and
Social Drives we arrive at 27
subtypes.
Emotional Resilience
The Emotional Resilience Lens is
an important component of
psychological health. By
combining the level of
Emotional Resilience with the
level of Personal Mastery we
are able to report the
Enneagram at multiple levels.
People with higher Emotional
Resilience tend to be more
effective in their world. People
who have lower Emotional
Resilience generally have less
capacity to deal with stress, and
associated coping needs.
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Energy Centers
The Energy Centers Lens points out how we interpret our
world, either through the head (intellectual), heart
(emotional) or gut (instinctual). We measure, report and
explain these centers and how they influence individuals.
Five Lens Development Platform™
Development Platform
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5. Is your team performing at an optimum level? Are all of your team members
working together? Do they challenge each other effectively?
In today’s work environment teams are often exposed to a constant flux with new members coming and going, conflicting
priorities, increased expectations and strategies revised. The Ennea International Team Discovery Day™ is a program, to be
used by certified facilitators to kick-start a team’s journey to high performance.
Building on the Team Discovery Day
Change rarely happens as a result of a single event. Based on the outcomes of our Nine Essentials Diagnostic™ we
identify the right one-day, action-learning Nine Essentials™ skills modules to be run with the team over a period of
time. This Systems Thinking based approach pulls through the threads of the earlier phases, and subsequently builds
on the team’s collective learning, and ultimately moves the team to high performance.
Team Discovery Day (TDD)™
Ennea Certification Level Required
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TEAM FACILIT
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Understanding
high performing
teams
Define where your
team is, relative to a high
performing team
Clarify individual and team
behavior relating to high
performance
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Commit to specific
actions to reach high
performance
What happens on Team Discovery Day?
Understanding Your Team
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6. Start your teams journey to high performance
Team Performance Process (TPP)™
Ennea Certification Level Required
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Develop a group of competent colleagues into a cohesive, high performing
team, consistently capable of achieving exceptional results!
Develop a group of competent colleagues into a cohesive,
high performing team, consistently capable of achieving
exceptional results!
Exceptional team performance rests on the members
forming a synergistic whole where the team’s capacity
becomes greater than the sum of the individuals’
contributions. Systemic change does not happen as a result
of a single event. Our Team Performance Process, is a
multi-step process that has a two-day workshop at its core. It
is designed to address deeper issues within a team that
cannot be dealt with in a single day.
Based on the outcomes of our Nine Essentials Diagnostic™ we
identify the proper one-day, action-learning Nine Essential™
skills modules to be run with the team over a period of time.
This process pulls through the threads of the first phase,
thereby building on the team’s collective learning and
ultimately moving the team to high performance. These
modules are delivered at the level of individual
temperament, deepening the relevance of the learning and
ensuring sustainability.
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Individual debriefs and develop
current narrative
Provide feedback to leaderMeet the team and
set the context
Team development
workshop day one
Team development
workshop day two
Post workshop
development discussions
Present individual develop-
ment plans to leader
Several one-day
essential skills modules
Executive coaching
support for leader
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7. Level 1 - 5LQ Practitioner
Focusing on understanding and being able to debrief
individuals through our Five Lens Personal Feedback
Report. This forms a valuable part of the personal
development journey for individuals and leaders and
provides context to the results.
Level 2 - Certified Team Facilitator
Focusing on how to facilitate our Team Discovery Day™, a
powerful process designed to kickstart a team on the path to
high performance.
Level 3 - Certified Senior Team Facilitator
Building on the Team Discovery Day™, the focus here is on
delivering our series of action learning one-day modules
that form part of our Nine Essentials for building High
Performing Teams.
Level 4 - Certified Executive Team
Facilitator
Level four certification is by qualified acceptance only. To
access level four the individual must be able to demonstrate
solid experience of leading deeper facilitated process at
senior levels. Depending on the competence and experience
of the individual, certification may be achieved by
co-facilitating “Team Performance Processes” with one of
our faculty members. There may also be a need for some
other developmental steps that will vary from individual to
individual.
Level 5 - Certified Train-the-Trainer
This level of training is by invitation only and is mainly
aimed at our Ennea Distribution community. We also
selectively offer it to global or major organizations that are
able to generate sufficient volume.
Team Stages for building High Performing TeamsFaculty Certification Training
Building high performing individuals, leaders and teams
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Train the Trainer
Executive Team Facilitator
Senior Team Facilitator
Team Facilitator
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Approved for 41.5 hours towards Continuing Coaching Education (CCE)

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HEAD - GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
hymie@enneainternational.com
Cell: +27 72 288 0800
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MANAGING DIRECTOR - NORTH AMERICA
christopher.lindberg@enneainternational.com
Cell: +1 215 499 0910
Neil Bierbaum
HEAD - DISTRIBUTION AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST
neil@enneainternational.com
Cell: +27 83 708 2577
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