by Mario Sikora | Apr 2, 2020 | Article, Blog, Mario Sikora, Self Awareness and Emotional Intelligence, The Enneagram
Basic principle number one is that during a dual health and financial crisis, we are all going to be Preservers. Have you been focused on how to stockpile and conserve resources? Have you been mindlessly (or even mindfully, for that matter) cleaning and organizing...
by Mario Sikora | Mar 26, 2020 | Article, Blog, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora, The Enneagram
I was recently asked about an approach to coaching Eights; particularly, how to help them access the “high side of Two.” I’ve coached quite a few Eights over the years and, as I am an Eight myself, I have a few thoughts on the topic. This blog is a slightly...
by Mario Sikora | Mar 5, 2020 | Article, Blog, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora, Self Awareness and Emotional Intelligence
In life, there are problems and there are conditions, and they are not the same thing. Here is an example of what I mean: My 16-year old son is 6’3” with an excellent vertical leap. He plays on a local club basketball team and, being the tallest player on his team and...
by Mario Sikora | Jan 29, 2020 | Article, Blog, Mario Sikora, The Enneagram
People tend to view the three instinctual domains as three discreet and specific “instincts”: self-preservation, social, and sexual (or one-to-one). This is an archaic and outdated view of biology, which is far more complicated. It is more...
by Mario Sikora | Jan 23, 2020 | Article, Blog, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora, The Enneagram
Excerpted from the book “Instinctual Leadership: Working with the 27 Subtypes of the Awareness to Action Enneagram” by Mario Sikora with Maria Jose Munita. Copyright 2020. All Rights Reserved. As we stated in the previous section, no one can be good at everything. We...
by Mario Sikora | Jan 22, 2020 | Article, Blog, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” (Lord Acton) Acton may be correct (most people leave out the important word “tends” when repeating this quote), but I have never seen an effective leader who was powerless. In fact, the best...
by Mario Sikora | Jan 2, 2020 | Article, Blog, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora
“So, what advice do you have for me?” asked Michael. The question took me a little by surprise. It came at the end of a social lunch, not a coaching session, but Michael was a client I have known for a long time and he never missed an opportunity to learn how to get...
by Mario Sikora | Dec 16, 2019 | Article, Blog, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora, The Enneagram
When it comes to working with your instinctual biases, there are two things to focus on: Learning to manage our reactions to them rather than being managed by them, andBecoming more skillful at the activities related to the three instinctual domains. One might be...
by Mario Sikora | Nov 29, 2019 | Article, Blog, Mario Sikora, The Enneagram
Warning–This post is for true Enneagram geeks! I was recently asked on a Facebook forum about my view on the instinctual biases and how they differed from some of the other perspectives; here is my response. Note that I will be part of panel discussion on this...
by Mario Sikora | Nov 27, 2019 | Article, Blog, Leadership-Teambuilding-Performance, Mario Sikora
One occupational challenge I face is trying to stay current with the literature on management and leadership. As in every other field, we have more access to more ideas than those even a generation ago could have ever imagined. In addition to internet-based...
