Which Truity Team Workshop is Right for Your Team? Comparing the TypeFinder® and Enneagram Workshops

The most effective teams are the ones that truly get each other. Team members understand one another’s strengths, weaknesses and communication styles — and know how to adapt to meet each other’s unique needs. These teams don’t just work well together; they lift each other up, creating something far greater than the sum of their parts.

Of course, this kind of synergy doesn’t usually happen by chance. It helps to have a framework to guide the way, and that’s where we come in. At Truity, we offer two powerful tools: the TypeFinder®, based on the Myers-Briggs system, and the Enneagram.

For teams, we offer two-hour virtual training sessions that dive deep into these frameworks. Each session includes a team map and valuable insights to help your team build a shared language and a deeper understanding of one another.

Because the TypeFinder and Enneagram offer such distinct approaches, we’ve created a quick guide to help you choose the right fit for your team’s journey. Let’s find the framework that will take your collaboration to the next level!

Why Your Team Needs a Personality-based Workshop 

Hosting a team workshop is more than a fun team-building exercise — it’s a game-changer. Here’s why:

First, it gives each team member the chance to dive deeper into their personality report, ask questions and reflect on how their traits show up in real life, leading to greater self-awareness and growth.

Second, it opens the door to understanding their colleagues on a deeper level. By learning about each other’s personality types, preferences and tendencies, team members gain valuable context for why they click easily with some coworkers — and why others might challenge them.

But the real magic happens when the team shifts from individual insights to collective growth. In a training session, the team learns how their unique personality dynamics come together to create a team culture that influences communication, collaboration and overall effectiveness. This understanding leads to many benefits for teams, including: 

• Improving Communication: Clear communication is essential for effective teams. Personality helps us see and understand the different ways that individuals prefer to give and receive information. When we recognize these differences, we can listen more openly, without judgment or confusion. 
• Increasing Collaboration: We all bring different skills to the table, but it can be hard to value other’s strengths unless we first feel that our own are recognized and valued. Personality helps everyone feel seen and heard. Knowing that you bring tactical, logistical, strategic and diplomatic skills to the table increases an individual's confidence and enhances a team's overall effectiveness.

• Navigating Conflict: When we recognize that there are common core values for the different personality types, such as freedom, belonging, competence and significance, it is easier to get to the heart of the conflict and find a win/win solution. 
• Appreciating Diversity: Cognitive diversity is a key attribute of high-performing teams. Yet sometimes we don’t recognize the value in the skills we have or we undervalue our strengths and overvalue our weaknesses. Fostering an appreciation for a team’s different approaches and cognitive diversity can help lessen conflict, increase cooperation and boost empathy.

Each team receives a team map that plots the individual personality types across all the options. This helps the team see their strengths, blind spots, values and biases, providing the team with a platform to discuss how that is helping or hindering their day-to-day operations and long-term goals. You’ll also see whether changes need to be made, and have a framework for how to make them.  

Whether you choose the TypeFinder or the Enneagram, both sessions help your team:

• Value their individual strengths 
• Honor their colleagues’ strengths
• Recognize the value in cognitive diversity 
• Increase self-leadership 
• Build a shared language to reduce miscommunication 

Benefits of the TypeFinder at Work Workshop 

The TypeFinder in the Workplace workshop is interactive, practical, fun and engaging. It focuses on comparing and contrasting the strengths of each of the four dimensions of the TypeFinder (e.g., Introversion versus Extraversion and so on) so team members can see the value of each. 

The workshop focuses on helping the team work together effectively and applies the TypeFinder to topics such as:

• Effectively running team meetings
• Problem-solving as a team
• Giving and receiving appreciation
• Appreciating different working styles 
• Self-awareness and empathy for others in the workplace

This workshop is great for teams who:

• Are newly formed and looking for a way to get to know each other
• Want to explore better ways of working together 
• Are looking for a fun way to reconnect.

For teams that are new to personality type and personality assessments, we recommend that they start with the TypeFinder and the TypeFinder team workshop. 

Benefits of the Enneagram at Work Workshop

Truity’s Enneagram in the Workplace workshop provides your team with an opportunity to understand their colleagues' deeper motivations, strengths and challenges. The workshop explores each of the nine Enneagram types, and applies them to topics like communication, stress, teamwork and leadership. 

It focuses on:

• The lens through which each Enneagram type sees the world
• The strengths and challenges for each type at work
• Growth activities for each of the nine types
• Applying those insights to the team’s communication and working style 

This workshop is great for teams who:

• Want to reduce miscommunication
• Increase trust
• Are focused on developing their emotional intelligence
• Want increased empathy for their colleagues
• Are ready to understand their motivations at a deeper level 

Read more: Meet the Leaders Using the Enneagram to Drive Real Business Results

An important note about the Enneagram: the Enneagram reveals why our strengths are also our challenges. It reveals the deeper motivation behind why we developed those strengths, based on strategies we developed to manage childhood challenges. For some people, this can be very confronting. It is common for people to feel uncomfortable reading the report. Unless your team is ready for this, they may find it hard to speak up and share about their type before and during the workshop. 

While sharing your workplace experiences in the session is entirely optional, it is what helps build trust within the team. Hence, we recommend this session for teams who have done some personal development or team-building workshops previously, and/or are focused on developing their emotional intelligence. 

How the process works

Once you decide to go ahead with the workshop, you’ll complete the form linked below, and we’ll be in touch to confirm availability. Ideally, your workshop will be scheduled at least three weeks in advance, as that provides time to complete all the stages in a timely fashion. 

Stage 1: Testing

The first step is to have your team complete their tests. Our Truity @ Work platform allows you to send tests to your team using test credits, monitor their progress and view their test results from your own separate account. We'll get you started with a demo of the platform, so you understand how the testing process works before you start sending tests to your team. 

We recommend you allow plenty of time for your team to complete their tests. When deciding on a deadline, also factor in that we need to prepare your team’s map, insights and customize your workshop based on the results. Hence we prefer that the testing is complete at least a week before the scheduled session.

Stage 2: Manager/Organizer Briefing (15-30 mins)

Here you’ll meet your workshop facilitator via Zoom. They will learn more about your team and its objectives, take you through the session's agenda and answer any questions you have. They’ll also confirm any technical logistics for running the workshop. 

Stage 3: The Workshop (2 hours)

Each session runs approximately two hours, although it may be longer for larger teams. People learn best when they can contribute to the discussion in both small and large groups. The goal is to maximize each participant’s opportunity to learn about their type, that of their colleagues, and how to apply that in the workplace. We also recommend that everyone have a copy of their report on hand during the session. 

Stage 4: Post Workshop Info pack

We’ll email you a copy of the slide deck as well as links to other resources. 

Next Steps

If one of these sessions sounds right for your team, complete this form to tell us more about your team, which session you’re interested in and the date or timeframe you want to run it. We look forward to supporting you and your team.