About this episode

This episode explores the challenges Type 2s face in giving feedback and offers strategies to improve their effectiveness while maintaining warmth in their leadership style.

For Type 2s, the Coach (source: Awareness to Action Enneagram), giving feedback isn't just uncomfortable, it can feel genuinely risky. When connection is your currency, anything that might strain a relationship hits differently. In this episode, we're walking through why feedback feels so hard for this type, what Type 2s are already doing well, and a few adjustments that can help their feedback actually land, without sacrificing the warmth that makes them so good at leading people in the firs...

Topics covered

• Enneagram Type 2
• feedback
• workplace relationships
• leadership
• communication

Keywords

• Enneagram
• Type 2
• feedback
• workplace
• leadership
• communication
• relationships

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Awareness to Action Enneagram

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