S4-Episode 6-Working Together Enneagram-Joey Schewee

About this episode

Jason Stonehouse interviews Joey Schewee about understanding team dynamics through motivation rather than just behavior.

Why is this person so difficult to work with? You've asked it. Every leader has. And the answer probably isn't what you think. Most of us assume difficult people are just... difficult. Wrong personality. Bad fit. Too much drama. But what if the real problem is that you're trying to fix behavior when the actual issue is motivation? Those are two completely different problems, and they require two completely different solutions. In this episode, Jason Stonehouse sits down with Joey Schewee , management consultant, executive coach, and longtime Enneagram expert, to talk about what's actually driving the friction on your team. Joey has spent 30 years helping leaders get past surface-level personality typing and into the harder, more useful question: why do people do what they do? Her new book, When Working Together Doesn't Work , is essentially a field manual for leaders who are tired of the same team problems showing up in different people. In this conversation, Jason and Joey dig into why self-awareness has to come before team awareness, what it means to lead from your dominant center (doing, feeling, or thinking), why those high-action "motor" types rise quickly and…

People in this episode

Host: Jason Stonehouse

Guest: Joey Schewee

Topics covered

• Enneagram
• team dynamics
• leadership
• motivation
• self-awareness

Keywords

• management consultant
• executive coach
• team problems
• self-awareness
• leadership strategies

Mentioned in this episode

Products: When Working Together Doesn't Work

Books & works: Working Together, When Working Together Doesn't Work

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