How Change Fatigue Derails Teams

Derailers, in Hogan terms, are everyday personality strengths that can become overused—particularly during times of increased stress, pressure, or complacency. When we stop monitoring our strengths, our behaviours can become detrimental. Someone who tends to be supportive and loyal to authority, for example, could begin to seem excessively deferential and ingratiating. Derailment in the individual […]

How to Incorporate Well-Being into Leadership Development

Occupational well-being is an essential part of overall well-being. Effective leadership coaching will personalise developmental feedback to the leader’s needs based on the context of their role, function, and organisation and on their personality. Individual differences in personality reveal how people experience well-being at work and how they manage stress. Leadership development should investigate how […]

4 Ways Personality Tests Improve Your Candidate Experience

First impressions are undoubtedly important in the business world. But to what extent do the importance of first impressions extend to the job candidate experience? Should creating a positive candidate experience be a priority? Candidates are supposed to be the ones impressing you, right? Rather than leave this question to speculation, we sent out a […]

How to Coach Leaders Through Change

Every organisation experiences some degree of change. It’s a constant in business. This fact makes change management a key capability for leaders. How they lead through change affects their personal, team, and organisational success. It also makes responding to change a key theme in leadership coaching. Hogan practitioners can coach leaders through it by helping […]

Empowering the Next Generation of Women Leaders

How should we approach leadership development for college students? How can we use such efforts to empower the next generation of women leaders? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp spoke with Jennifer Tackett, PhD, professor and director of clinical training, and Haoqi Zhang, PhD, associate professor of computer science, both at Northwestern University. […]

AI in Psychology

Leadership consultants, executive coaches, industrial-organisational psychologists, and artificial intelligence all have the same goal: to help make people better at what they do. Do you agree? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, spoke with Ted Hayes, PhD, a research psychologist in northern Virginia, about the implications of […]

Four-Point Assessments and Norm Upgrades

Our 2023 norm and scoring upgrade is yet another example of Hogan’s strong commitment to actively take part in the promotion of equal employment opportunity and success for all. True to our founding principles of social justice and our core purpose of helping people and organisations succeed using data-driven talent insights, we believe people have […]

What Is Leadership?

Famed management consultant Peter Drucker, PhD, once described leadership as being about followership. This may sound redundant, but from our perspective, there’s much more to it. At Hogan, we’ve been studying leadership for decades. In fact, we’re an international authority in the subject—specifically in the relationship between leadership, personality, and job performance. But we realise […]

Using AI to Interpret Hogan Scores

Artificial intelligence systems, especially large language models such as GPTs, respond to text-based inputs with novel, humanlike text outputs. You can ask for an essay about the fall of Rome or a love poem to your romantic partner, and the system will readily generate it. Such systems can even take medical test information as inputs and […]

The Future Is Here: AI, Personality, and the Impact

Before we start catastrophising about our future AI rulers, we should stop and appreciate the potential good that artificial intelligence can offer. The impact of AI on personality assessment and workplace communication will likely be positive—and extensive. Recently on The Science of Personality Live, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager at Hogan […]