When Working Together Doesn't Work

A Solution-Driven Handbook for Workplace Relationships

Why is it so difficult to collaborate with that one coworker? Why can't your boss understand where you're coming from? We all want to experience a healthy, flourishing work environment, but interpersonal conflicts and miscommunications often make work feel frustrating, overwhelming, and maybe even toxic.

With the Enneagram as her guide, Joey Schewee provides a holistic, empowering approach to relating to one another in the workplace, as she helps you foster behavioral consciousness through awareness of motivational differences. She provides practical explanations of a dynamic wisdom for immediate application using anecdotes gained from seventeen years of consulting in professional environments. Drawing from her work with thousands of employees and hundreds of teams, Schewee introduces new concepts such as processing centers, reference points, and focus shifts, Enneagram advancements shared in this book for the first time.

In When Working Together Doesn't Work, you'll learn



- how differing motivations or types can affect employee cohesiveness and productivity,

- how managers can engage individuals by type, so that employees feel understood and valued, and

- how to significantly reduce the perception of personal slights and pave the way for understanding, trust, and collaboration.

While many personality typing systems focus on behavior, they often fail to address the core motivations behind it—something the Enneagram does exceptionally well. When Working Together Doesn't Work is designed to equip you, at any level of business, to improve workplace dynamics. By applying the proven approach outlined in this book, you'll significantly reduce misunderstandings, build trust, and encourage collaboration at work. As you grow in your understanding of your coworkers, you'll experience improved employee engagement and shape your work culture in powerful and lasting ways. Start transforming your workplace today!



Suzanne Stabile is a highly sought-after speaker, teacher, and internationally recognized Enneagram master teacher, having conducted over five hundred workshops. She is the author of The Path Between Us and she is creator and host of The Enneagram Journey podcast. Along with her husband, Rev. Joseph Stabile, she is cofounder of Life in the Trinity Ministry. Their ministry home, the Micah Center, is located in Dallas, Texas.







Joey Stabile Schewee is a sought-after theorist with bone-level understanding of the unique motivations that inform human behavior. She has advanced the historic wisdom of the Enneagram for modern consumption and practical application and works asa management consultant for business cultures and an executive coach for leaders. Joey and her husband, Billy, live in Texas with their two sons and enjoy contributing to meaningful conversation surrounding marriage and parenting through the Enneagram lens.



Foreword by Suzanne Stabile



Introduction

Part I: How the Enneagram Works



Centers of Intelligence



Triads and Primary Types



Processing Centers and Stances

Part I Summary and Quick Reference

Part II: The Enneagram at Work



Enneagram Eight



Enneagram One



Enneagram Nine



Enneagram Two



Enneagram Four



Enneagram Three



Enneagram Five



Enneagram Seven



Enneagram Six

Part II Summary and Mistyping



Conclusion



Acknowledgments



Appendix A: Wings



Appendix B: Part I Reflection Questions