Team Dynamics Workshop
The Introduction Workshop lays the foundation; this session puts it to work on your team, applying the framework to how you actually communicate, collaborate, and navigate conflict.
THE SESSION
What to Expect
Every team has a unique type composition — a specific mix that creates predictable patterns of communication, collaboration, and conflict. This workshop is built around your team specifically: who’s in the room, how those types interact, and what that means for how you work together day to day.
The session opens with a focused recap of each type represented on the team, then moves into structured exercises where participants explore what it’s like to be their type in this specific group — where the natural synergies are, where predictable friction comes from, and what each person actually needs to do their best work. These aren’t abstract discussions. They’re guided conversations that bring your team’s actual dynamics into the open.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Three Lasting Takeaways
Every Team Dynamics Workshop produces these deliverables — documents your team can reference and build on long after the session ends.
Team Composition Map
A report showing your team’s type distribution with my observations on what it means — which types dominate, which are absent, and how that shapes the way your team operates: where you’re likely to excel, where you’re prone to friction, and what to watch for.
“Working With Me” Cards
Each participant leaves with one completed card covering three things: something teammates should know about working with them, a specific request, and a growth commitment they’re accountable to. Shared with the team and kept as a lasting reference.
Team Agreements
A shared document the team builds together during the session — communication norms, working preferences, and specific practices based on what the group discovers. Practical, specific, and grounded in your team’s actual dynamics.
Most teams have never had a direct conversation about how they actually work together.
Not in theory — not in a survey or a one-on-one with a manager — but in the room, with the whole team present, naming the patterns everyone has already felt but no one has said out loud. This session creates the environment for that conversation, and the structure to make it productive.
The “Working With Me” card is the anchor. Each person shares something their teammates should know about working with them, makes a specific request of their teammates, and commits to a concrete growth practice — not a vague intention, but the specific behaviors they’ll hold themselves to. When every person has done that and shared it openly, patterns emerge: recurring needs, complementary strengths, predictable friction points. The team agreements are built from those patterns — collective commitments grounded in what the group actually discovered, not generic norms.
In Enneagram work with teams, the moments that shift things most are always the honest ones — when someone names what everyone else has been feeling, articulates what they actually need, or owns a growth edge with enough honesty that it gives everyone else permission to do the same. Those are the moments when the room changes, and they don’t happen by accident. They require a facilitator who knows how to hold the material, pace the conversation, and create enough safety for people to say what they’ve been holding back. That’s what this session is designed to do — and done well, it’s one of the most useful conversations a team has ever had about how they work together.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Where This Fits
This session builds on the Introduction Workshop and sets the stage for ongoing application.
Introduction Workshop
The team learns the Enneagram system together, understands each other’s types, and builds a shared language for how they work.
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The team applies the Enneagram to their actual dynamics — type composition, communication patterns, friction points, and shared commitments.
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Focused sessions applying the Enneagram to specific workplace topics: communication, feedback, delegation, conflict, and more.
ExploreCommon Questions
All participants must have completed an Introduction Workshop and have a confident, considered sense of their Enneagram type. The dynamics work depends on everyone arriving with the same foundation — if participants are mistyped or working from different understandings of the system, the session can’t do what it’s designed to do.
The Team Dynamics Workshop is designed as either a half-day or full-day session, depending on how much time you want for exercises and discussion. Half-day works well for initial exposure; full-day allows for deeper application to your team’s specific dynamics.
In-person is the strong recommendation, especially when team cohesion and psychological safety are part of what you’re working toward. There’s something that happens when people are physically in the room together — the energy, the nonverbal signals, the sense of shared experience — that a virtual format can’t fully replicate. That said, this session works better over Zoom than most people expect, and if your team is distributed, don’t let format be the reason you don’t do the work.
Two to fifteen participants. This session works best when it’s small enough for everyone to speak, share, and be genuinely heard. Smaller groups (under ten) can go deeper into each person’s experience. Groups closer to fifteen benefit from the full range of type diversity but require a full day to give everyone adequate time. If your team is larger than fifteen, get in touch — there are ways to design around that.
This is often when the session is most valuable. The structure and framing are designed to hold difficult material — every session opens with a clear statement that the Enneagram is not a tool for labeling or judging, and the exercises are designed to build curiosity rather than defensiveness. I’ve facilitated this conversation with teams that came in with real friction. In most cases, naming the dynamics honestly — and understanding them through the lens of Enneagram type — is exactly what was needed.
A structured document each participant creates during the session. Each card has three parts: something their teammates should know about working with them, a specific request of their teammates, and a concrete growth commitment. The growth piece is the most specific part — not "I want to communicate better" but something like "I commit to asking clarifying questions before I respond when I feel reactive." Each person identifies a real growth edge and names the recurring behavior or behaviors that would address it. The cards are shared with the team and kept as a lasting reference.
Participants leave with their personal cards and the team’s shared agreements. Many teams follow up with Application Modules to go deeper on specific topics where their dynamics showed up — how the team communicates, how feedback flows, how decisions are made, etc. It’s a natural next step when the session surfaces something the team wants to work on directly.
The Introduction Workshop teaches your team the Enneagram system — what it is, how it works, and what each type looks like. This session skips the teaching and applies the framework directly to your group. Instead of learning about nine types in the abstract, participants explore what it’s like to be their specific type on your specific team. The content is built around the people in the room.
The Team Dynamics Workshop is about your team as a whole — your type composition, your collective patterns, how you work together. Application Modules focus on a specific topic — communication, feedback, delegation, conflict — and go through it type by type. They’re complementary: this session gives the team a shared foundation; the modules build on it.