April 9, 2024

Taking Care of Business with the Enneagram | RR253

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
Janice Porter:

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



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the rest about you that you are a certified executive coach,



Janice Porter:

leadership and organization, development consultant, author



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



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development or leadership development for maybe they're



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they have a psychologist that they're working with, and the



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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



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school, going for my PhD in organizational psychology. And



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this was back then it was called the California School of



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Professional Psychology in San Francisco. And what I didn't



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know anything about it, I was Myers Briggs, I was disc I know



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and all about those things I was using when I thought they were



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the bomb. It was awesome. It was great. And then I went to this



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one class, and it wasn't even an entire semester of it. It was



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just one class out of that that semester for that one, one class



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that I was taking one, one second. And the professor that I



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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



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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



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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



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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



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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



Janice Porter:

again for being here. And if you liked what you heard, please let



Janice Porter:

us know and leave a review and share this information. If you



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think you have some questions and you want to talk to Carl,



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you'll know where to go Find them and remember to stay



Janice Porter:

connected and be remembered Thank



Karl Hebenstreit:

you Janice thank you everyone