Your wing is the “second side” of your personality, and it must be taken into consideration to better understand yourself or someone else. Everyone is a unique mixture of their basic type and usually one of the two types adjacent to it on the circumference of the Enneagram. Type Nine is receptive, reassuring, complacent, and resigned. Type Eight is self-confident, decisive, willful, and confrontational. Type Seven is spontaneous, versatile, acquisitive, and scattered. Type Six is engaging, responsible, anxious, and suspicious. Type Five is perceptive, innovative, secretive, and isolated. Type Four is expressive, dramatic, self-absorbed, and temperamental. Type Three is adaptable, excelling, driven, and image-conscious. Type Two is generous, demonstrative, people-pleasing, and possessive. Type One is principled, purposeful, self-controlled, and perfectionistic. As you think about your personality, which of the following nine roles fits you best most of the time? Or, if you were to describe yourself in a few words, which of the following word clusters would come closest?

There are plenty of Enneagram Tests available online, but below is a great starting point for identifying your type. Also consider that not everything in the description of your basic type will apply to you all the time because you fluctuate constantly among the healthy, average, and unhealthy traits. People do not change from one basic personality type to another. It is common to find a little of yourself in all nine of the types, although one of them should stand out as being closest to yourself. The Enneagram can be seen as a set of nine distinct personality types, with each number on the Enneagram denoting one type. The nine points on the circle are also connected with each other by the inner lines of movement in stress and in growth. The Enneagram’s structure may look complicated, although it is actually simple. An in depth article can be found at The Enneagram Institute, and we have provided an overview of it below. Understanding the Enneagram will not only help with your leadership through self-awareness, but it will also open opportunities for you to support you team with more understanding! The Enneagram refers to the nine different personality types each representing a worldview that resonates with the way people think, feel, and act in relation to the world, others and themselves.

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