Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success - Paperback

by Ginger Lapid-Bogda (Author)

A proven system for improving your own work and for working better in a team

Used by such organizations as the Walt Disney Company, Silicon Graphics, the Federal Reserve Bank, and the CIA, the Enneagram is a proven psychological system based on nine number types that helps people achieve self-awareness and develop strategic approaches to interpersonal interactions. In Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work, Enneagram teacher and business consultant Ginger Lapid-Bodga shows professionals how to apply this popular tool to their work as a way to improve their productivity and help them build positive relationships among coworkers. This practical guide explains how to use the Enneagram to:

• Communicate more effectively
• Provide constructive feedback
• Prevent and resolve conflict
• Bring out their strongest leadership skills
• Discover methods for professional development
• Work better in teams

  Back Jacket

  Acclaim for Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work

  "This is the first Enneagram book that I have endorsed. The Enneagram is a powerful tool for self-understanding--the gist of emotional healing and a major factor in personal evolution. Here is a good book undertaking to bring the Enneagram to the business world at a time when it has become apparent that the business world controls the world and that our fate depends on the psychospiritual condition of those in it."
  --Claudio Naranjo, M.D., Enneagram pioneer and author of Character and Neurosis: An Integrative View

  "This solid, well-written book can be used by those new to the Enneagram and those who already know the system and want ways to apply it in the business world."
  --Don Riso and Russ Hudson, founders of the Enneagram Institute and authors of the bestselling The Wisdom of the Enneagram

  "User-friendly. . . . Ginger Lapid-Bogda's explanation and interpretation of the Enneagram way of learning more about one's self is unsurpassed."
  --W. Warner Burke, Ph.D., author of Organization Change: Theory and Practice

  "A must-have for your 'go-to' bookshelf."
  --Beverly Kaye, Ph.D., co-author of the internationally bestselling Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay

  The Enneagram is a popular, proven psychological system for determining personality types as a path for self-improvement. Now, Enneagram teacher and organizational consultant Ginger Lapid-Bogda gives clear, easy-to-follow instruction for using this powerful tool in the workplace, including techniques for bringing out your strongest leadership skills, improving your weaker areas, and preventing and resolving conflict. You'll work better, increase the effectiveness of your teams, and build relationships with your coworkers.

  Author Biography

  Ginger Lapid-Bodga, Ph.D. (Santa Monica, CA), is the president-elect of the International Enneagram Association for 2004. As a business consultant, she frequently speaks to companies such as CBS, Disney, GE, P&G, McDonald's, and Time Warner as well as at professional conferences. She is also an internationally recognized Enneagram teacher.

  Number of Pages: 304
  Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN
  Publication Date: August 20, 2004