How Hogan’s Personality Assessments Improve Workplace Safety

Each year, accidents and work-related illnesses cost billions of dollars in needless business expenses. Serious workers’ compensation claims can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars each and can incur hidden costs for business continuity. The easiest way for companies to reduce these costs is to assess and predict potential candidates’ likely workplace safety behavior during the […]

The Impact of Personality on High Potentials

The science of personality matters to high-potential employees and to the organisations seeking to fill succession benches. The predictive power of personality data can help accelerate effectiveness in high-potential development. But how, exactly? On episode 117 of The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp spoke with Allan Church, PhD, cofounder and managing […]

How Do We Motivate, Engage And Retain Educational Leaders?

Our latest white paper has been written in collaboration by Dr Lynne Cruickshank and Dr Xander van Lill at PBC along with Rebecca Edgeley and Tara Staritski, Managing Partners at ialign. ialign, in partnership with Hogan Assessments, has gathered data from standardised, robust scientifically validated measurements of almost 1000 school leaders over the last decade […]

Neurodiversity Frequently Asked Questions

What is neurodiversity? Neurodivergence refers to differences in the way individuals analyse and process information. Neurodiversity is the view that neurological differences in people reflect normal variations in brain development. It commonly refers to conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There has been a push in recent years […]

Learning from Failure

Nobody’s perfect. Everyone has failed at some point throughout life. But while many of us try to avoid failure, some of us learn from it instead. Learning from failure involves a willingness to take risks, reflect on performance, and change. Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp discussed learning from failure in school, […]

PBC Thought Leadership Forum

We are excited to announce the return of our annual PBC Hogan Thought Leadership Forum.  Hogan’s Chief Science Officer, Dr Ryne Sherman will be presenting alongside a few of PBC’s leaders including Managing Director, Peter Berry (Sydney), Director of Consulting, Sharon Ardley (Melbourne) and Director, Desiree Grant (she/her) (Auckland).  Learn all about the bright and dark side of personality […]

Hiring Gen Z: Talent Attraction and Retention Strategies

Is it our age or our generation that defines us more? In this article, we explore characteristics that seem to describe the youngest generation of the workforce, as well as strategies for managing Gen Z workers. Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp spoke with Jean Twenge, PhD, a professor of psychology at […]

Why Equity Matters to Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

On July 10, 2024, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest HR professional society, published a LinkedIn post about changing its approach to inclusion and diversity. The SHRM announcement proclaimed that the organisation would immediately adopt “the acronym ‘I&D’ instead of ‘IE&D,’” removing the E for equity. It quoted Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., president […]

What Is Impression Management?

During everyday social interactions, people try to influence how others view them. Some people make this effort deliberately, while others do so unconsciously. In social psychology, this behaviour is called impression management. This article explores what impression management is, who impression managers are, and why it matters. Impression management is the process of trying to […]

3 Tips for Combining 360 and Personality Assessment Feedback

When introduced and interpreted effectively, both 360 feedback instruments and personality assessments play significant roles in helping participants develop greater strategic self-awareness. Here are three tips on introducing the feedback combination to participants: Participants should understand that each of these sources of feedback is based on a different time horizon.  Snapshot perspective: 360 feedback comes from […]