Personality and Mindfulness – More Natural for Some than Others and How it Matters
Mindfulness has been around the world for centuries. For roughly 40 years and popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn in the west, it’s been taught as a set of practices to increase insight, manage pain, and reduce stress. Also known as present-moment awareness, mindfulness has become a bright, shiny object in business literature and, to a growing […]
What Makes Up the Personality of a Successful Entrepreneur?
Businesses have long used the powerful information contained in personality assessments to facilitate leadership performance and outcomes. Understanding an individual’s personality—or their unique characteristic ways of being—can be helpful when seeking to identify those who may be well-suited to leadership roles (i.e., selection), as well as to improve the performance and outcomes of those already inhabiting leadership roles (i.e., […]
CEOs in Crisis: The Influence of Leaders’ Performance Risks (Part 2)
Some personality traits can pose risks to companies’ success. These traits, which Hogan calls derailers, tend to arise when people are stressed, fatigued, or bored (that is, when we do not exercise self-control). These are the most challenging elements of personality to work with, and they are the most damaging to our careers. Because crises such […]
Staying Creative in a Virtual World
*This post originally appeared on Hogan Assessments and was authored by Arlene Pace Green, Ph.D.- Executive Coach & Consultant, Enelra Talent Solutions, LLC, and member of the Hogan Coaching Network. “Creativity is intelligence having fun” – Albert Einstein Globally, since the pandemic began, we are working more hours, engaged in more meetings, sending even more emails, and finding […]
How to Use Existing Resources to Address Difficult People Issues
*This post was authored by Melvyn Payne, Commercial Director for Advanced People Strategies and originally appeared on Hogan Assessments. Many of our clients use Hogan Assessments to support selection and talent development programs. Due to the pandemic, however, selection has (understandably) been cut back dramatically. Now, HR teams have to focus on more difficult people issues while learning […]
CEOs in Crisis: The Influence of Leaders’ Everyday Strengths (Part 1)
*This post was authored by Sara Ruiz, Research and Development Talent Management Model Lead at THUOPER, Hogan’s authorised distributor in Colombia. It originally appeared on Hogan Assessments. The new realities shaped by the disruptive and complex moment we are experiencing are completely different for each organisation. This situation is forcing some companies to completely reinvent themselves, while others […]
The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship: Avoiding Personal and Organisational Derailment
*This post was authored by Jorge Fernandez, a member of the Hogan Coaching Network and originally appeared on Hogan Assessments. Entrepreneurs tend to have a heroic status around the globe — and for good reason. Entrepreneurialism encourages individual proactivity, creativity, and economic vitality, yet a significant number of startups fail for many well-documented reasons. The organisational psychologist in […]
Accelerating Team Effectiveness in the COVID-19 World
*This post was co-authored by Hogan’s Erin Laxson, Holly Paine Magnuson, and Jessie McClure. It originally appeared on Hogan Assessments. Earlier this year, before the global pandemic, I returned to the office after an extended business trip. When I walked into the building, the environment felt different. The building was the same, the furniture was where […]
Parkinson’s Law in the Age of the Pandemic
C. Northcote Parkinson (1909—1993) was a British naval historian, lecturer, and novelist; he formulated his famous law in an essay in The Economist in 1955. Parkinson’s law was intended to describe the behavior of managers in the British Navy and British government, but it is also a pretty good description of work in most organisations. The July […]
Survival Skills: Who Will Succeed in the Automated Labour Market?
Automation has long been altering labour markets and eliminating jobs. Recent research suggests that up to 47% of U.S. jobs are at risk of becoming automated within the next 20 years.1 That percentage varies from country to country, but it consistently falls above the 40% mark. Although automation is largely thought to threaten low-skill jobs, advances […]
