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 […]
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 […]
HR Burnout: The Organisation Is Fine, But Are You?
Exhausted? Feeling cynical or negative? Checking out? It’s not just you—especially if you’re an HR professional. As much as burnout today is a global experience, even recognised by the World Health Organisation, it has taken an especially serious toll on the very people who are deeply concerned with occupational well-being: human resources professionals.1 So, what’s led to the […]
The 2022 Derailers of the Year
It was quite a year, wasn’t it? From supply chain issues to quiet quitting, from Will Smith to Elon Musk, it seems as though 2022 was characterised by big events, big personalities, and big derailers. Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, continued their annual tradition of […]
The Future of Personality Assessment
Measuring personality is complex. How can personality assessment retain what is valuable in traditional methods while leveraging the technology of the future, such as AI and machine learning? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, spoke with Georgi Yankov, PhD, senior research scientist at Development Dimensions International, about […]
Leadership Through Organisational Crisis
Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer for Hogan, gave a presentation on leadership through organisational crisis at the Peter Berry Consultancy Thought Leadership Forum in Sydney. In 2018, Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 experienced engine failure. Debris from the engine struck the wing and a window, causing rapid decompression in the cabin and one passenger fatality. […]
Personality of Elite Athletes
PBC has worked with the elite athletes at both state and national level across Australia, developing their players, teams and umpires. We also published a research paper to examine the following points of interest: • Do elite sports players differ from non-elite sports players in terms of their personality? • How do any observable difference […]
CEO Behaviour
Are luxury possessions and speeding tickets indicative of CEOs who will cultivate scandal and commit fraud? They can be. Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, spoke with Aiyesha Dey, PhD, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, about how CEO personality influences CEO behaviour. By researching the […]
