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 […]
Six Safety-Conscious Personality Traits for the Post-COVID Workplace
With many workers returning to their offices, preventing the spread of COVID-19 and protecting employee health is a top priority for business leaders. While initiatives like enhanced sanitation and social distancing policies are a must, the biggest threat to workplace health and safety is often overlooked by managers—recruiting safety-conscious staff. The Hogan Safety Report, which scores […]
How Personality Assessments Improve Safety at Work
Gaining the best and most suitable employees for your company is the key to success. Nowadays, companies are trying to hire the best of the best and are putting a lot of effort into new and exciting forms of recruiting. While a strong recruiting strategy provides only one major advantage for most companies, it is […]
Leadership Through Organisational Crisis
Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer for Hogan, gave a presentation on leadership through organisational crisis at the Peter Berry Consultancy Thought Leadership Forum in Sydney. In 2018, Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 experienced engine failure. Debris from the engine struck the wing and a window, causing rapid decompression in the cabin and one passenger fatality. […]
Personality of Elite Athletes
PBC has worked with the elite athletes at both state and national level across Australia, developing their players, teams and umpires. We also published a research paper to examine the following points of interest: • Do elite sports players differ from non-elite sports players in terms of their personality? • How do any observable difference […]
