Coaching Type Three

In this episode of the Awareness to Action Enneagram podcast, Mario Sikora, María José Munita and Seth “Creek” Creekmore return to their series on coaching the Enneagram types by talking about Type Three. Mario and MJ explain how this type of Striving to Feel Outstanding is often misunderstood so it’s important to understand the instinctual bias as each subtype requires different coaching needs. However, they also share why this type provides some of their biggest success stories in their work with the corporate world.

“I also think that the Threes are often misunderstood, misrepresented, misdescribed in a lot of the Enneagram literature.” -Mario [04:27]

“And I’ve seen when it starts to become too hard and too obvious that they’re struggling, they’ll ditch.” -Creek [13:26]

“I think that for them, it’s just so fundamental to have goals and to kind of make the effort to get there. And it almost defines them. I think that with the others, we can all have goals, but they’re not that important to us or they don’t define us as they do for Threes.” -María José [15:07]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:02] Intro

[01:32] Feedback on Coaching Type Two

[03:16] A lot of misunderstandings about Type Threes

[08:41] Fundamentals of Threes

[14:32] Setting goals to know who they are

[17:14] Common things to work on with Type Threes

[23:21] Think about the subtypes

[28:50] Potential mistypings

[34:17] How to build trust

[35:45] Type Three Accelerator: Purpose

[39:18] Ways to incentivize Threes