Under the skin, behind the curtain, and up the skirt

Ever wondered what the chicken McF**k is going on in my mind and why? This'll help. I discovered The Enneagram Institute when I bought some high-level careers counselling last year. If you've ever been through a Belbin study and been named a plant, shaper, politician or similar then you'll be familiar with the format. However, the Ennegram goes a long way beyond this, 16PF, Myers-Briggs, or other rudimentary personality and characteristic profiling tools.

For starters, there are so many questions to answer that simply completing the questionnaire takes 2-3 hours alone. Most importantly, the Ennegram is not restricted solely to an individual's role in the workplace. It analyses individuals' roles in LIFE, with nine different basic personality types, and 27+ types in total that help to account for the subtleties that most classifications don't.