Employee Well-Being: Whose Responsibility Is It, Anyway?
Employee well-being matters. Most of us have had jobs that made us stressed or miserable. We know what it’s like to feel as though a boss or workplace is costing us our physical or mental health. In the words of Robert Hogan, PhD, “Bad leaders perpetrate terrible misery on those subject to their domain.” Who should […]
The Future of Personality Assessment
Measuring personality is complex. How can personality assessment retain what is valuable in traditional methods while leveraging the technology of the future, such as AI and machine learning? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, spoke with Georgi Yankov, PhD, senior research scientist at Development Dimensions International, about […]
Understanding Elon
In every area of human endeavor there are people who make a living doing things, and there are people who make a living criticising what others do. Movie critics, literary critics, music critics, architectural critics, foreign policy critics, and business critics. Elon Musk is indisputably the first camp, but as the world’s richest person, he […]
Why your hiring process is missing a crucial component
CVs, interviews, reference checks – do they tell you who your candidate really is? Managing director Peter Berry discusses the importance of personality assessments to hiring and talent development. When organisations hire, most will fall back on their tried and tested method: post a job ad, select candidates, conduct an interview and contact referees. However, this process […]
Humble Leadership in Action: Subaru case study
How Subaru Shaped it’s Culture Subaru of America President and CEO Thomas J. Doll led the company through the 2008–2009 financial crisis to 12 years of growth at a time when the auto industry faced significant challenges. He did this by modeling the characteristics in Hogan’s recent research showing the link between humility and strong […]
Reskilling: The Importance of Socioemotional Skills
How can organisations prepare employees for a future of work that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous? The answer is reskilling. The way we work has changed a lot recently, and that transformation isn’t likely to stop soon. An environment characterized by constant change can be described with the acronym VUCA: volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and […]
What is Executive Presence?
Executive presence is one of the hottest management topics in the business world. Executive presence features heavily in leadership literature, is a major component of executive coaching and is taught in business schools. If you google executive presence you will find descriptions that include gravitas, body language, appearance, emotional intelligence (EQ) and integrity. With communications […]
Case Study: Multinational Petrochemical Company Hogan 360
Background A multinational company based in Europe, one of the largest companies in the world, was looking for a new approach to developing and identifying high potential leaders. As part of this new approach, they reviewed their current leadership assessments and recognised a need to enhance their assessment suite which included their multi-rater survey. They […]
What are the competencies of great leaders?
New research from PBC covering the results of nearly 30,000 360 profiles of managers has reviewed the answers. By looking at senior roles, specifically CEO and C-suite results at the 75th percentile, we get key insights into benchmarking the best. Four super competencies emerged. They have a strong achievement focus and are strategic. In short, they […]
Case Study: Canon Oceania Hogan 360
Canon Oceania were interested in utilising a 360 multi-rater survey specifically aligned to the revised leadership capability framework. Canon wanted to measure against a consistent framework across the employee lifecycle. Peter Berry Consultancy were asked to provide a customised Hogan 360 and Group Report with mapping to their leadership capability framework. Canon needed an individual and group 360 […]
