Working with Derailers: Coaching Insights at the Top of the Stress-performance Curve
Derailers are important because they are the habitual behavioural patterns that can get in our way. Typically operating below the level of conscious awareness, these behaviours are often easy to ignore. But when overused, they hinder performance. Coaching people to learn to work with derailers and manage stress can be a gateway into new understanding […]
From Resistance to Receptivity: Overcoming Feedback Resistance
The decision to change your behaviour based on personality assessment results is hard. Arriving at that choice requires a leader to have an open mindset, strategic self-awareness, and Hogan coaching. Hogan practitioners who hold feedback sessions and ongoing development discussions need to understand how to predict feedback resistance and guide leaders past it to receptivity. […]
Talent Pro, Beware: 11 Employee Behaviours to Watch Out For
Job-related stress is a major problem faced by people worldwide. As many as 60% of workers in the major global economies reported experiencing stress at work, and in the United States, a staggering 80% of workers say they are stressed because of their jobs. Aside from the health implications that job-related stress can have for […]
Quiet Quitting and Personality: Who Becomes a Quiet Quitter?
By now, you likely have heard the term quiet quitting. Since the idea went viral on TikTok, quiet quitting has been debated, clarified, celebrated, and reviled. It seems to evoke strong, emotional reactions from individual contributors to corporate leaders and everyone in between. Because the original TikTok video about quiet quitting was posted by a Gen […]
Using Personality Assessments to Save Lives
Personality plays a role in developing and maintaining a safe workplace environment. It can predict safe behaviour and even save lives. But how? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp spoke with Zsolt Feher, managing director of Hogan’s International Distributors Network, about personality and safety. Every time there is a […]
How Faking Impacts Personality Assessment Results
People constantly ask us how faking affects the results of personality assessment. We believe that faking doesn’t matter, and we say this for two reasons. First, the data show that people can’t or don’t fake their answers on personality questionnaires. Second, it is very hard to define faking. Let’s take these two points in order. […]
The Benefits of Cooperation at Work: Why Getting Along Matters
Humans just don’t excel at surviving in the wild alone. We have no claws, horns, fangs, shells, or spikes. What we do have is each other—and a far higher chance of survival when we practice cooperation in groups. Our instincts for cooperation at work and elsewhere stems from our group-living ancestors who passed down their […]
How to Take a Personality Test
A personality test isn’t quite like other job-related tests. There’s no such thing as passing or failing, for one. And it’s not even truly a test—it’s an assessment, which is more like a measurement. Because of that, we have a few important tips for how to take a personality test. Recently on The Science of Personality, […]
Workplace Competition: Why We Compete at Work
Workplace competition is universal. The workplaces themselves aren’t the cause of why we compete at work, though. People are the common factor in all work environments everywhere. Something fundamental exists in human nature that motivates us to compete. Competition in the workplace can produce outcomes that are positive, negative, or a complex mixture. The desire […]
The Psychology of Sleep
Our personality can affect our sleep, and our sleep can affect our personality. Given that we spend about one-third of our time asleep, the psychology of sleep may have a greater influence on our well-being than we tend to believe. Recently on The Science of Personality, Zlatan Krizan, PhD, an award-winning researcher and professor of psychology […]
