Team Growth: Team Exploration Workshop

Surface the truth about your team, without judgement, with evidence. Gain alignment, trust, understanding, awareness. Drive up team effectiveness.

What This Is

Most team friction isn’t a process problem. It’s a people problem — specifically, that the people on the team can’t see what’s driving the person next to them.

The Enneagram for Teams is a two-day workshop that surfaces the truth about your team. Not as judgment, but as understanding. It gives each person — and the team as a whole — a precise picture of what’s actually driving behavior, where trust breaks down, and what it would take to perform at a level that currently feels out of reach.

The Enneagram is a personality system drawn from wisdom traditions going back nearly a thousand years. In the modern era, three people brought it forward into its current form: George Gurdjieff, the Greek-Armenian spiritual teacher who reintroduced the symbol to the West; Oscar Ichazo, the Bolivian philosopher who first mapped the nine personality types onto the system at his Arica School in Chile; and Claudio Naranjo, the Chilean psychiatrist who taught it at Berkeley and connected it to modern Western psychology. It is open-source — no single organization owns it — which has allowed it to deepen and evolve over time. Curious? read more history here.

Unlike assessments that tell you what you are, the Enneagram reveals why you became that way — and gives you tools to work with those patterns rather than be controlled by them.

What the Team Walks Away With

Outcomes that result in exponentially higher team effectiveness:

  1. Alignment that goes deeper than a shared slide deck. When team members understand what actually drives each other — the fears, the fixations, the blind spots — they move together with a clarity that surface-level alignment never produces. And they sustain it, because they understand why misalignment happens in the first place.
  2. Trust built on understanding difference. Erratic behavior that would normally erode trust becomes readable. When you know why a colleague withdraws under pressure or pushes back hard on ambiguity, it stops feeling personal.
  3. Friction named and resolved. Every team has patterns that keep it stuck. This work surfaces them — and gives the team the language and tools to address them, not just manage around them.
  4. Optimized team composition. Understanding the team’s type reveals gaps and strengths invisible in any org chart or performance review.
  5. A map of where the team is in its development. Tuckman’s Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing stages play out differently depending on the team’s type. Knowing your team’s type tells you how this team moves through each stage — and what it needs to get to the next one.

These aren’t team-building outcomes. They’re business outcomes — the conditions that separate high-performing teams from capable ones.

What’s Included

Pre-Workshop:

  • iEQ9 individual Enneagram assessment for each team member
  • 60-minute individual debrief with Jawahar for each participant
  • Individual preparation material for the workshop

Day 1:

  • Introduction: setting context and establishing the container
  • Individual sharing: approx. 30 minutes per person
  • Team experience of each other through Enneagram constructs: primary type, second highest and lowest types, center of expression, passion, lines of release and stretch, subtype

Day 2:

  • Introduction to Team Type: what it reveals about team motivation and behavior
  • Each individual and leader receives the iEQ9 Team Report; see samples here.
  • Team experiences itself in the context of its Enneagram type, including a leader feedback session
  • Development planning: commitments made with a follow-up timeframe

Format:

  • In person preferred; virtual available where in-person isn’t possible
  • Two days, with flexibility on structure based on team size and constraints

What Comes Next

The workshop is complete in itself. At the end of Day 2, the team will have development plans and a timeframe to check in on progress. For teams and leaders who want to go further, there are two options:

  • Ongoing coaching — individual coaching for some or all team members, building on the self-awareness developed in the workshop
  • Team check-ins — a follow-up session at one to three months, or quarterly, to review progress against development plans

Both are available but not required. The leader decides what the team needs.

Who This Is For

Any team at any level where the gap between capability and delivery is visible. Engineering teams, product teams, cross-functional teams, leadership teams. The Enneagram for Teams works regardless of team size or seniority — what matters is that the leader and team members are willing to look honestly at what’s underneath.

The workshop provides a judgment-free container for the truth to surface. What gets revealed isn’t opinion or interpretation — it’s grounded in two layers of evidence: each participant’s individual iEQ9 assessment, a psychometrically validated instrument with 95% type accuracy, and the iEQ9 Team Report, which synthesizes the individual assessments into a picture of the team as a whole. The truth has evidence behind it.

Who This Is NOT For

Teams where the leader and team members aren’t ready to have the truth surface. This work reveals things. If the goal is to maintain the appearance of alignment rather than create real alignment, this isn’t the right fit.

The Founding Partnership

I have studied and practiced the Enneagram for over five years, working with individual leaders through my coaching practice. I recently completed my accreditation as an Enneagram for Teams practitioner.

I am offering a founding partnership rate to the first 10 teams. This is an opportunity to work together at a significant discount from standard pricing.

To explore whether this is the right fit for your team:

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