hey guys welcome back to my channel Enneagram and coaching i'm hillary your certified enneagram life
coach and today i'm going to teach you guys about the type 7 in the workplace
all right guys so i know the workplace looks so different right now right for some of you
you're working at home you're working at your kitchen table or maybe you have an office at home
it might look like zoom calls text facetime or it could even be in person right there's so many
different scenarios going on in the world right now but the one thing that has stayed constant
is the need to be able to work with other people and so that's why i'm doing this series how to
work with each type and today we are covering the type 7 the enthusiast whether you are a seven you
work with a seven or you work four or seven this video will help you and actually i've gotten so
many comments from you guys telling me that this is helping you outside of the workplace too in
your home and your friendships and your family that all these things that i'm teaching you're
able to use them in your everyday life and so i love hearing that and then also if you are a seven
still watch because another thing i'm hearing from you guys is it's helping you guys see how other
people see you and that is a huge help to you guys as well so i'm gonna cover lots of info today on
the type seven but before i do don't forget to push the like button please give it a thumbs up
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for you through the youtube platforms so let's learn about the seven who are they who are the
type sevens well they're called the enthusiasts they are the visionaries they need freedom to
pursue new ideas adventures opportunities they love having the freedom to do that they love to
interact with people and get to know them and engage with them about things that they love
they usually bring an optimistic and positive attitude to everything that they do they are
spontaneous playful extroverted and enthusiastic and if you want more info about the type 7 i have
lots of videos already covering the heart of the type seven i even have some interviews
um of me interviewing type sevens i'll link a couple of those down below because that's not what
this video is about today today we're gonna talk about the type seven in the workplace but i just
wanted to give you a little info on who the seven was okay so let's move on to the strengths of the
type seven what are their strengths the first one is they have extremely high levels of energy
whether they are getting their to-do list done finding a project leading something whatever it
looks like they have a bundle of energy to put towards it they're super gifted at brainstorming
and envisioning all the possibilities they're gonna be the ones that are usually cheering
you on they're great motivators and um yeah super like they're they're that cheerleader for people
they bring the can-do attitude to work they're the ones that are like yep we can do it they
believe it they imagine the best case scenario and always think everything's going to turn out good
they are called reframers they could turn any negative thing into a positive thing i always
i don't know why every time i think of this for the type 7 they're so good at reframing
things i always think reframe reframe um but yeah they're the ones that if something's
negative they're gonna be able to see the positive in it and just reframe it for good
okay so let's move on to areas of development and i'm gonna share three different areas of
development that i think are important for the type seven the first one's gonna be it's hard
for the for them to commit to things in advance they need freedom um they might feel boxed in but
some of the questions i want you to ask yourself if you're type seven when this happens when you're
like oh i can't commit first thing when when this happens now this isn't always a bad thing but here
in the area of development i'll say ask yourself um is there a reason why you don't want to commit
is it deeper than what's going on in the moment or does it just plain make you feel boxed in
you know those are just some of the questions to ask yourself the second one is they can get too
fast-paced they might not pay attention to all the important details because they're going so fast
sometimes if you're seven you need you need to be able to slow down and go through the task with
more detail so that the job is done well the third thing is is sevens tend to run away from hard
painful sad emotions an area of development would be to stay in the motion and process all the way
through it because this leads to a healthier seven and you'll also learn to be more present all right
so let's move on to you might be working with a type 7f they get extremely animated about projects
and things that they are working on they're like the ones that are like hey guys oh my gosh this
is exciting um not all sevens i do want to put that out there there are some types of sevens
and some sevens aren't like that but for the most part um the sevens tend to be very animated when
they're talking about something they love and they're excited about another thing you might
be working with a seven if they're charming and funny and they get along with everybody they are
amazing motivators they inspire people to do the things that they did not think that they could do
another you might be working with a seven if is if they over book themselves they arrive
late to meetings or they just forget things and the last thing is is when things get hard or
heavy they might be the ones that are making a b b-line for the door because that kind of
stuff can be hard for them all right moving on to what's great about working with a type seven
like i said they're super funny they make work fun they are the life of the party and they just love
everybody they are open to listening to others and will always try to make sure other people like
team members and whoever feel heard and supported because they need a great deal of freedom at work
they will give this to people and if they are your boss they're probably more than likely not paying
attention to the time clock but i will say i know a bunch of sevens and they they are like you know
you can have all the freedom you want but you gotta get your work done because they love freedom
but they also get their work done the last one is they are sincerely interested in people whether
they work with you your friends or whatever that is they want to get to know you and they love to
do life with you okay so let's move on to type seven would say it's hard working with others
because the first thing is people who don't enjoy work as much as they do they can be hard for them
the next thing is when people don't allow them space and time to brainstorm they don't want
like if something just comes across their desk and it's like okay you got to do it right now
that could be hard for seven because they do want to brainstorm they do need that space and
they want to do an amazing project another thing a seven might say is if there's a ton
of rules and not a lot of freedom because getting to work on time might actually be hard for a seven
but more than likely they are the ones that get like these amazing ideas at like 10 o'clock at
night and work for two hours and put on a ton of work but let's be honest that's off the clock
and so they will work when it's not work hours that nine to five can be hard for a
seven sometimes another thing a type seven might say that it's hard working with others because is
when people don't like to have fun at work like they do because they believe working and fun can
definitely go hand in hand and they don't want to be judged for that they just they think that the
two can and should go together and the last thing is people that don't see things as positively as
they do maybe the people rain on their parade or bring a lot of negative towards them that could be
hard for them to work in that kind of environment all right so let's move right into ways to
communicate with the type 7. the first way i would say is if you're communicating through text
use a ton of emojis exclamation points capital letters anything that says i'm excited you know
they're gonna love that so that's a great way to communicate with them but on the same hand i do
realize that there are other types that are like i've never used emoji in my life and so obviously
that's not the expectation i'm just saying that could be a great way to communicate with them
the next thing i would say is if you have to have a meeting or talk about something hard with them
maybe start off with something positive and then go into something hard or the negative whatever i
think that that would be a good way to communicate with them the next thing is use their ideas
when solving an issue or a problem give them as much control as you can of the solution and the
outcome that definitely could help the last thing is don't try and try not to be too judgy they can
feel it because you know they're excited and like sometimes they feel like you know they
look so different from everybody else on their mannerisms and how they are they definitely
can pick up if you're judging them and so try not to be judgey try to just accept them and
for who they are and let them be them and and not have that expectation that they would show
the way you show up which let's move right into how to get along with the type seven the first one
is appreciate their stories and ideas and listen patiently without shutting them down the next one
is give them lots of encouragement and dependence and space seven's like a lot of freedom to do the
work the way they wanna do it if they have a boss they need the boss to trust them that's
really important to them for the boss to trust them to get the job done because they will do it
they just don't want to be micromanaged they they don't micromanage and they don't want
to be micromanaged last thing avoid excessive criticism now the key word i said is excessive
because they don't mind legitimate criticism but if it doesn't have a constructive purpose it's
gonna hurt them and they're gonna feel resentful so it just it needs to have a purpose it needs to
be constructive criticism not accessible all right so let's move on to how to motivate a type seven
i feel like this has kind of been covered in some way or another so i'm just gonna sum it up
the first thing they are motivated by is new ideas and adventures the second thing multiple options
third thing meeting new people and getting to know them the fourth thing fun events especially fun
work events they love them the fifth thing i can think of is choices and lots of them but actually
i'm thinking of one last thing that does motivate a seven that i have not set up till this point
their love for creative and trendy aesthetics this can definitely motivate them not all sevens but
the ones i know for sure um they do have a love for trendy aesthetics and creativeness and so that
definitely can motivate them okay so we're at the end the last thing i want to cover today which is
growth practices for the type seven first thing i would say to a seven is slow down to think and
process through things that are upsetting you slow down and process them learn to become conscious of
your need to avoid pain and discomfort and so that is a deep deep need in you but what's healthy is
to stop think and process and so try to implement that into your life the next one is when you are
reframing things or refocusing negative things learn to recognize when you are just wanting to
see the things the way you want them or wish them to be it's important to just be able to recognize
this sometimes you do need to see things as they are or how others are seeing them and
this is okay last thing is learn to notice when you are amping up your excitement and enthusiasm
as a way to avoid something see the enthusiasm and the amping and the excitement is not wrong but
when you're doing it as a way to avoid something that's when i think that you need to look a little
deeper into what's going on and it's important for type 7 to learn to be okay in the moment
um if it is hard or tough so all right well guys that's it those are the 10 things i want to share
with you about working with a type 7 today i hope you learned something about yourself the
people you work with the people you work for or if there's a seven just in your life at all friends
family anything i hope you learned something about them today something that will help you
embrace them and love them and just enjoy them more because that's one of the big reasons why
i teach this so that we will love each other and let each other be who you're meant to be
and i think that is important so and if you want to watch the other how to work with types videos
i have types one two three four five and six already done i'll link those in the box below
if you want to go and check those out because you guys know i think it's super important not
only to learn about ourselves but to learn about everybody else in our life too super important but
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