Enneagram Assessment Research

Our 48 motivational work assessment tool highlights what motivates you, where you naturally focus, and blind spots that may drain you. Through this awareness, our platform helps business owners and team members improve teaming, communication skills, employee engagement, professional development, and talent acquisition. 

In the future of work, we want to foster a business setting where people can feel connected, authentic, and purposeful as well as tap into their unique talents. The Enneagram is a personality assessment that helps you determine core motivations, personality traits, thinking tendencies, strengths, areas of personal growth, and behaviors. The test involves nine fundamental personality types. 

We aim to support the Enneagram personality styles with our evidence-based tool backed by motivation theory and cognitive bias. Through F4S’ added dimension, backed by science, we hope to provide unique insights to help you thrive in the workplace and unlock your potential.

How F4S Enneagram research enhances the Enneagram personality test?

Through the deeper understanding generated from the personality test when applied to work, people gain a better insight into their team members' perspectives, behavior patterns, and internal motivations, resulting in improved team culture, teamwork, and performance. F4S research focuses on each Enneagram type's unique motivational and cognitive patterns. Incorporating the research will increase awareness of what motivates people, how they can work with others better, as well as optimal communication styles.

As F4S focuses on the workplace and what motivates people at work, it enhances Enneagram's use in the workplace, enriching work experiences, developing those in leadership positions, creating more cohesive teams, and dealing with conflict more effectively. Both tools will provide insight into creating a future of work that recognizes and appreciates the unique talents and perspectives of others.  

The Enneagram types at work: All 9 Types

The Enneagram has nine fundamental personality types of people and aims to enable awareness of team members' communication styles, habits, strengths, and areas for growth.  

Type One: The Reformer

The Enneagram Institute depicts the reformer as conscientious and ethical, with a strong sense of right and wrong.¹ A strong sense of right or wrong aligns with the motivation for Assertiveness, the energy to know and hold people to certain rules and standards. This type is well-organized, disciplined, and highly attentive to detail and accuracy.¹ At F4S, the motivation for remaining organized is Structure, and having high attention to detail is Depth.

Type Two: The Helper

The Enneagram Institute portrays the helper as empathetic, friendly, warm-hearted, and sentimental.¹ The energy gained from being empathetic matches with Affective Communication, and caring for others aligns with the motivation for People. This type of person is well-intentioned, generous, and driven to help and be close to others.¹ Shared Responsibility refers to the preference for collaborating with and helping others.

Type Three: The Achiever

The Enneagram Institute describes the achiever as ambitious, competitive, and valuing praise.¹ Their competitiveness and achievement-oriented nature align with the motivation for Achievement, being motivated by accomplishments and recognition for their efforts. Status advancement and how others’ perceive them highly drive this type.¹ Power is the energy derived from being in a position of influence, and External Reference, the motivation for seeking external inputs and opinions from others.

Type Four: The Individualist

The Enneagram Institute states that the individualist is inspiring and highly creative.¹ Their creativity speaks to the motivation for Alternatives, deriving energy from experimenting with new ways of doing things, and Indifference, the preference for thinking outside the box. This type is self-aware, self-conscious, and are truth-seekers about themselves and their experiences.¹ The self-conscious nature of type four speaks to Consistency, the motivation to be skeptical and constantly question conclusions.

Type Five: The Investigator

The Enneagram Institute refers to the investigator as curious, insightful, and preoccupied with their thoughts and manual constructs.¹ Their need to understand how things work together, speaks to the motivation for Systems, the preference to establish connections, and Concept, the energy for analyzing and theorizing. This type is independent, innovative, and inventive.¹ Solo Environment is the preference to work independently, and Evolution is the motivation to innovate.

Type Six: The Loyalist

The Enneagram Institute describes loyalists as problem solvers, aligning with the motivation for Away From Problems.¹ This type values commitment and loyalty to structures, processes, and people.¹ The committed nature of type six processes refers to the motivation for Reflection and Patience, the energy to persist with activities and be strategic. Procedures refer to the energy derived from following procedures and established methods to attain the best results. 

Type Seven: The Enthusiast

The Enneagram Institute depicts the enthusiast as constantly seeking new and exciting experiences and activities.¹ Seeking new experiences aligns with the motivation for Difference, the energy to make radical changes, and Activity, which refers to the preference for being continuously active. This type rapidly moves from one idea to the next and gains excitement from the initial stage of starting a project, aligning with the motivation for Initiation.¹

Type Eight: The Challenger

The Enneagram Institute portrays the challenger as self-confident, strong, and decisive.¹ Internal Reference speaks to the motivation for being confident in one's own skills, expertise, and knowledge, enabling rapid decision-making capacities. This type is charismatic, persuasive, and they are natural leaders who help others exceed their capacities.¹ The energy to lead and influence others matches Power, the preference to be in a position of influence and impact others. 

Type Nine: The Peacemaker

The Enneagram Institute states that the peacemaker is supportive and values harmony and peace.¹ Tolerance speaks to the energy for accepting other styles and values, and Affiliation is the preference for building harmony in the workplace. This type devotes itself to fostering peace and harmony in the world.¹ The desire to achieve and set grand goals matches the motivation for Goal Orientation. 

Leveraging Enneagram and F4S to improve the workplace

Enneagram shines a light on how you see the world, helping people gain awareness of your unique perspectives and point of view. It helps people understand what motivates you, providing opportunities to tailor work roles and responsibilities to feel more energizing. By learning more about your preferred communication styles, people can engage with you more effectively, and you can learn how to present and speak to people with impact. Through this awareness, you learn more about how you like to work and collaborate in a team, fostering more meaningful bonds and greater productivity.  

With the application of F4S motivational work assessment in addition to Enneagram, people can gain greater insights into various work factors, such as leadership styles and workplace conflicts, fostering an enhanced work culture where everybody feels engaged, productive, and aligned with their motivations. The tools can benefit individuals, teams, and organizations in achieving personal goals and developing skills, understanding, and shared values through human and AI coaching.

By applying the unique information gained from using a combination of Enneagram and F4S' evidence-based approach, business leaders can promote cognitive diversity, leverage everyone's strengths, and help individuals excel in the workplace.