Tools we use
Over time we have tested, evaluated and sometimes created, a wide variety of tools and resources for our clients. Following are a few that we find to be particularly helpful and that we can customize to the needs of each client.
ENNEAGRAM
The Enneagram is a very powerful tool, useful to managers, leaders and others. It is a deceptively simple model which is very complex to learn and apply well. This complexity, and the time required for mastery, has been a significant impediment to wider use of the model. Working over a long period of time, Joan has created a new unique tool to introduce clients to this system “Help me find my Enneagram Type” (newly published). This tool allows clients the opportunity to learn the map of the Enneagram system in a collaborative conversational interchange, either in a group setting or in an individual coaching session.
For more information about the Enneagram classes and groups offered please click here.
Enneagram Typing Card Sort Set
© Joan R. Ryan, July 2017
MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
Carol views the MBTI tool as particularly effective in helping individuals and teams gain an increasing awareness of differences in personality preferences related to communication, focus of attention, and decision making. A valuable part of the team building process, it creates a common vocabulary and framework for building relationships and moving beyond barriers.
As organizations look to develop their leaders, and create high performing teams, the MBTI can be an effective tool. The MBTI type indicator is the most widely used performance indicator in the world, with more than 3.5 million assessments administered each year. Based on a model of personality types developed by Carl Jung, the underlying principle is that “each of us has an urge to grow and that part of our growth comes from understanding, individually and collectively how we operate in the world.”
IMMUNITY TO CHANGE
Certified as an ITC facilitator, Carol has successfully led Boards, senior teams and individuals through this reflective and mindset shifting roadmap for change.
Based on the work of Robert Keegan and Lisa Lahey, the Immunity to Change approach is specifically designed to help individuals, work teams, and organizations make those
personal and collective changes that are most important to them – but have proven resistant even to thoughtful plans and heartfelt intentions. Based on a facilitated process for discovery, individuals and teams uncover how their current mindsets create an “immunity” which produces behaviors that work against needed progress on a goal where achievement is most desired. Once we can uncover the real source of what has prevented change, we can move through a guided process to a new path which will help us achieve it.