Leaders around the world: Who comes out on top?
Author: Adrian Chew, Principal Consultant, Peter Berry Consultancy Globalisation and the expansion of organisations across international borders present current and future leaders with a number of opportunities and challenges. As a consultant, psychologist and coach, it’s exciting to see more and more organisations around the world investing in the use of psychometric and multi-rater feedback […]
VIDEO: How Do You Derail?
At Hogan, we talk a lot about derailers and the dark side of personality. When the pressure’s on, the line between strength and weakness isn’t always clear — drive becomes ruthless ambition, attention to detail becomes micromanaging, perceptiveness turns to cynicism, etc. The dark side of personality derails careers and companies, but it doesn’t have […]
Our Assessments Work Anywhere
*This post was authored by Ryne Sherman and Brandon Ferrell. A recently published study suggests that some of the most common personality assessments (i.e., one’s based on the Big 5) don’t work in other countries. The study was published in a prestigious journal (Science Advances, impact factor > 12), and it has already gained prominent media attention. […]
Personality Theory and The Nature of Human Nature
*This article was written by Dr. Robert Hogan and Dr. Ryne Sherman for a special issue of Personality and Individual Differences. People are the deadliest invasive species in the history of the earth. People have the potential to kill every living thing and, in certain instances have already done so (e.g., passenger pigeons, western black […]
Hogan’s General Employability Helps Organisations Recruit the Right Candidates
he success of any organisation depends on the people who work in it. Therefore, it is crucial for businesses to hire the right employees. Using valid assessment tools such as General Employability, companies can more easily identify the personality characteristics that predict employability across a wide range of jobs. In turn, businesses are more productive, have […]
Defining Leadership
There are numerous perspectives and fundamental disagreement about the true definition of leadership. The good news is, most definitions of leadership fit into two broad categories. On one hand, we can think of a person who has a supervisory or management title as being a leader. On the other hand, we can think of a […]
Transformational Leadership: It’s Not What You Think
The idea of transformational leadership sounds good when taken at face value. A transformational leader is someone who instills pride, respect and trust in its followers. They inspire and motivate people beyond expectations, sparking innovation and change. And, if you look up “transformation” in the dictionary, you will see it defined as “a thorough or […]
Risk Type: How Instincts Shape Decisions – Implications for Finance, for Safety and for Life
Geoff Trickey, Managing Director of Psychological Consultancy Ltd (PCL) joins us to discuss risk dispositions and decision making. FOCUS ON RISK Financial professionals know a great deal about risk. The risk they know about is numerical, statistical, probabilistic, based on precedent and economic history. This is the world of economists, actuaries, underwriters and financial intermediaries. […]
CEO Assessment and the Performance of Portfolio Companies
*This post was co-authored by Robert Hogan and Rob Kaiser, and was originally published by Hunt Scanlon Media. In the final analysis, business is about money and people. By definition, successful private equity firms understand finance, but on average they tend to be less sophisticated about people issues. This makes sense: deal partners and analysts are […]
When should you customise a 360?
Organisations are often interested in customising diagnostics to align with their competency models or leadership frameworks to assess for those capabilities important to their organisational strategy. At PBC, we know the importance of 360 items being empirically tested, validated and benchmarked, which is why it is not always appropriate to customise a 360 degree feedback […]
