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A&D Resources Becomes Summit in January
We are delighted to announce that we are finally merging A&D Resources A/S and Summit Consulting A/S under one brand name “Summit” effective January 1, 2023.
Employee Well-Being: Whose Responsibility Is It, Anyway?
Employees remain stressed out and burned out despite an employer focus on well-being strategies. Who should be responsible for employee well-being?
Reskilling: The Importance of Socioemotional Skills
The future of work is uncertain—and it requires a strategic approach to talent development. But it’s not just about technical skills. Here’s why socioemotional skills belong in your reskilling strategy.
Product Focus: Team Report
There’s little sense in developing individuals if they don’t come together to make an effective team. A&D Resources and Hogan’s unique approach to team development examines the goals of the team and identifies how the different personalities within the team can help or hinder achieving them
The Superstar Effect
Superstar workers aren’t always as good as they seem. When other high performers must compete with superstars, they can become demotivated. This is known as the superstar effect, and it can have a significant impact on teams and organizations.
Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, explored the superstar effect and how it relates to teams and organizations.
Let’s dive into what to do about the problem of superstars.
Successful Teams Throughout History
Historically, humanity’s largest steps have been accomplished not by individuals but by teams. When we look at what made teams successful in the past, we learn principles of teamwork to apply to teams today. Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, analyzed the traits of successful teams throughout history.
Let’s dive into this review of some of the most successful teams in history.
PRODUCT UPDATE: HOGAN VALUES REPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN FINNISH
We are continuously developing and making Hogan products available in local languages in Scandinavia and Benelux where we offer our services. The latest is the Hogan Values Report in Finnish.
Young Top Performers – How to Best Manage Them
Would you also like to know more about the personality of young top performers and consequently how to best manage them? Here is what we know based on Hogan assessing 600 NFL-draft athletes.
Clones, Diversity, Innovation, and Personality
People sometimes ask whether using personality assessment for selection will create an organization full of clones, decrease diversity, and narrow the range of innovative thought available to solve company problems. Their concern is that if they hire people with similar personality characteristics, they will create a culture of groupthink. Some assessment providers have fostered this view by (a) suggesting that personality assessment can enable you to clone your best workers’ personalities by hiring more like them, and (b) arguing that would be a good thing. Neither is true.
What Is Unconscious Bias?
The category for Jeopardy! is Bias in Hiring. Your clue: the talent acquisition process that led to Mike Richards being named as the new Jeopardy! host may have been influenced by this psychological phenomenon.[1]
The Easy Way to Increase Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Your Organization
Diversity, equity, and inclusion. If you work in human resources, or a related field, you’ve heard these terms before and, odds are, you have some idea of what they mean. But just so that we are all on the same page, I’ll use the following, heavily borrowed, definitions for diversity, equity, and inclusion:
Why Leadership Development Is Broken
Leadership development is big business. The programs and practices used to grow top-level talent are prolific and diverse, and 95% of organizations plan to maintain or increase their current leadership development investment.1
How Organizations Can Improve Gender Equity in Leadership
March brings one of my favorite international holidays, International Women’s Day. March 8 is dedicated to celebrating the incredible accomplishments of women.
Product Focus: Leadership Forecast Series
Organisations depend on leaders to make important tactical decisions, manage changing market trends, and set strategic vision. When competent leadership prevails, people and companies prosper. Bad leadership, however, leads to disengaged workers, corporate corruption, and eventual business failure.
What’s Driving the Big Quit? (Part 2)
Earlier this month, Hogan shared the first part of a two-part blog series about the Great Resignation. If you recall, part 1 discussed how feelings of empowerment and burnout are the two primary drivers leading to the mass exodus of talent. In part 2 of this blog series, we will discuss the insight we have gained from our research on personality to respond to two important questions: What can organizations do to retain talent? And how can individuals find meaning in their work?
Do Personality Tests Fail At Selection?
There are a lot of hiring personality tests out there that claim to predict workplace performance. Unfortunately, you get what you pay for.
How to Grow Employee Engagement
Wondering how to grow employee engagement? Using personality tests can ensure that your company’s employee engagement initiatives are successful.
PRODUCT UPDATE: HOGAN TEAM REPORTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN NORWEGIAN & SWEDISH
We are continuously developing and making Hogan products available in local languages in Scandinavia and Benelux where we offer our services. The latest is the Hogan Team Reports in Norwegian and Swedish.
What You Need to Know About Leadership Development
Leadership is usually defined in terms of a person’s status in an organisation. If people have leadership titles, then they must have the leadership skills, right?
Wrong.
Absentee Leadership: The Silent Killers of an Organisation
Leadership effectiveness is of paramount importance, as most organisations continue to operate remotely with virtual teams. Crises such as the current pandemic act as a litmus test for leaders, with effective leaders rising to the challenges of guiding their organisation through hardship, and ineffective leaders unravelling under pressure.
4 Reasons Why Bad Hires Cost So Much
Everything is getting more expensive these days, and bad hires are no exception. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, employees who fail to live up to expectations usually cost their organizations at least 30% of their first-year earnings.1 And the indirect costs of a bad hire? They can be even more draining.
While there are wide-ranging reasons why bad hires are so expensive, let’s review four of the most common reasons why bad hires cost so much.
Product Update: Title Changes for Swedish, Norwegian and Finish Reports
We are always striving to deliver a consistent user experience across our different markets in order to provide the best possible products and services to our clients.
Personality in Sports: Characteristics for Athlete and Team Success
Imagine the final minute of a national championship match. The fate of the game relies on the final scoring opportunity. The top player receives the ball, and the coach is counting on this player to take the winning shot. Instead, the player passes the ball to a teammate, who shoots and misses. The team loses.
Leveraging Values to Keep Individuals and Teams Engaged
The world of work, and our individual and collective place in it, has been continually shifting over the past hundred years.
How Do Personality Tests Work?
Personality is a person’s disposition or core wiring. It drives our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in ways that are highly predictable. In the same way that drivers use a map to see their route before stepping on the gas, employers should use a personality test to predict the likely performance trajectory of job candidates before making hiring decisions. But how do personality tests work?
Charisma in Job Interviews: Identifying Top Talent
Few of us are immune to the charms of charisma. Research even suggests that our biology may cause us to prefer individuals who project a confident social presence, strong vision, and high risk tolerance.
Survey Reveals How Personality Tests Improve Candidate Experience
According to a recent survey from Hogan Assessments, 75% of respondents take their candidate experience into account when deciding whether they will accept a company’s offer. Only 7% of job seekers say that the hiring process does not affect whether or not they view a company positively.
Product Update: Hogan Leadership Forecast Series Summary Report Now Available in Norwegian
We are continuously developing and making Hogan products available in local languages in Scandinavia and Benelux where we offer our services. The latest is the Hogan Leadership Forecast Summary Report and Candidate Report in Norwegian.
Accelerating Team Effectiveness in the COVID-19 World - Four Ways to Accelerate Long-term Effectiveness
A year since the beginning of country-mandated stay-at-home orders and workplace shutdowns due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, team functioning, and office routines have been significantly impacted and changed dramatically.
Virtue or Vice? What Personality Tells Us About Patience
Posted March 2, 2021 by Scott Gregory
The Big Five Personality Characteristics: A Look Behind the Hogan Personality Tests
Posted February 9, 2021 by Hogan Assessments
The Key to Economic Survival: Your Hiring Practices
Just a month ago, large companies in competitive industries were seeing a high rate of job turnover. Conversely, if recruitment had stopped a few months ago, the result would have been an almost immediate labor shortage.
Getting Along, Getting Ahead and Finding our Meaning…Even when it’s “Business as "Un-usual”
For most of us right now our new reality is happening online…but how do we stay in-line? A&D Resources continues to deliver assessment services, certification workshops and consultancy services – online.
A&D Resources and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
The health and safety of our customers, partners and employees is our top priority and we follow instructions from the authorities to limit the spread of COVID-19.
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 person who supports and guides a group to work toward common goals as being a leader. The first definition is based on a person’s formal role within an organisation. The second definition is based on the function the leader serves and the group’s outcome.
Product Release: Hogan Advanced Interpretation Workshop
The Neuropsychology of Teamwork
“Why can’t they just act like adults!”
“It’s like herding cats!”
Although teams are our default organisational unit, team leaders often struggle to get individuals to cooperate and coordinate. Partly, that’s down to the fact that each individual has their own agenda for getting ahead, which they balance with getting along with everyone else.
Our Assessments Work Anywhere
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. One outlet said that these personality tests don’t hold up around the world. NPR said that personality tests don’t reveal the real you.
To identify talent is not a difficult task – if you know what you are looking for
So, the crucial questions to ask yourself are: ‘Talent for what?’ and ‘Do we have the necessary assessment tools to identify potential?’
Five assessments pitfalls you shouldn't fall for
Almost every week I learn about a new psychological assessment company entering the marketplace. Although each company is different, they all tell the same story.
Hogan Learning Lab
Join our knowledge sharing forum for Hogan users. Expand your understanding of Hogan and get the opportunity to share and discuss topics related to interpretation, feedback and analysis with other certified Hogan users.
Product Update: HBRI
Getting it "just right" - Identifying the true leaders of tomorrow
Hogan CEO Scott Gregory joins A&D's spring event
Don’t Try to Be the “Fun Boss”
— and Other Lessons in Ethical Leadership
The ethical misconduct of leaders in not a new concern, but it seems to be a more prevalent concern today. So what should today’s leaders do to build trust with their teams and the public?
Four-Point Response Options
We are excited to announce some upcoming changes to the Hogan participant platform.
Successful Teams: The New Blueprint
Building the perfect team isn’t about assembling an all-star squad of archetypes. It’s about finding contributors who are generous and respectful, but confident and charismatic, too— and picking the right leader who can pull them all together.
Humility, Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness
Hogan Assessment Systems' Chief Science Officer, Ryne Sherman offer three generalizations about Humility, Leadership and Organisational effectiveness.
Hogan Cares About Validity; Most Test Publishers Do Not
The test publishing industry is unregulated. As a result, many commercial test publishers ignore validity, and sell the psychometric equivalent of snake oil.
Watch the full video on Hogan's blog
The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader
The popular media is full of examples of bad leaders in government, academia, and business. But the most common kind of incompetent leader isn’t the ranting, narcissistic sociopath that might immediately come to mind. Rather, it’s the “absentee leader” — those in leadership roles who are psychologically absent from them.
Are Your HiPos Overrated
Most organizations across the globe make it a top priority to identify and develop high potential employees for leadership roles. Unfortunately, organizations large and small have struggled to recognize those with the most potential and, in many cases, select employees with very little potential at all.
Which Gets You Further At Work: Effort Or Talent?
Most of us have no trouble admitting that some people are more talented than others, yet we believe everyone can work hard. Not quite, says one psychologist.
What makes talent?
At A&D Resources we work with executives, leaders and talent.
In my frequent encounters with business and HR leaders, I often run into a discussion of potential and talent:
"Who are they and how do we identify them?
Then follows...
"How to motivate, develop and retain them?"
A Safer Personality
Businesses spend $170 billion a year on workplace injuries, and proper safety training can lower these costs by 20-40%. To create the most comprehensive safety climate, a company has to combine the right traditional safety methods with safety-based personality assessments.
11 WAYS TO WRECK YOUR CAREER
The Hogan Development Survey (HDS) describes the dark side of personality – qualities that emerge in times of increased strain and can disrupt relationships, damage reputations, and derail peoples’ chances of success. By assessing dark-side personality, you can recognize and mitigate performance risks before they become a problem.
Hogan Pick 2 HPI
Hogan Pick 2 HPI allows you to easily interpret the high or low score implications of any two HPI scores by tapping LOW or HIGH for any two HPI scales.
From Professionalism to personality…The evolution of HR assessment from the 1980s to the future
"Today, the biggest challenge for HR professionals is measuring and predicting personality – the most sustainable asset for business success. In terms of accuracy, today’s personality tests are three times better than a job interview, and they will only get more sophisticated in the future. Even so, most corporations are still using unreliable, biased methods for personnel decisions."
Hogan Configure: Why Competencies?
Hogan experts weigh in on what competencies are, why they're important, and how Hogan Configure leverages competency data to help you find the right candidate.
What Science Says About Identifying High-Potential Employees
"What are the key indicators that signal star potential?... As academic reviews noted, the first and most important decision that needs to be made in this regard is to decide “potential for what?”"
Share Your Hogan Knowledge
As the number of certified Hogan users increases, we are experiencing a demand for the opportunity to share experiences and knowledge with other certified Hogan users.
Could Your Personality Derail Your Career?
"Leaders tend to do a poor job of evaluating their own dark sides." - Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains how understanding your dark side, you will have a better chance changing your behaviour in critical situations.
Talent Identification
Talent Identification is not a difficult task when you remember to start with the question: "Talent for what?" - our Managing Director Joan Jakobsen gives her perspective on Talent Identification.
Hogan launches High Potential Talent Report
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Hogan High Potential (HiPo) Talent Report, a new product that simplifies the way organisations evaluate and develop talented people. The report is a rigorous, assessment-based development solution designed to identify and close the skills gap between what your organisation requires in a leader and what is in your talent pipeline.
Understanding Elon
In recent weeks, Elon Musk has faced enormous criticism for business decisions; however, nothing in his biography suggests Musk is narcissistic, malevolent, or experiencing psychosis.
The Future of Personality Assessment
Measuring personality is complex. How can we retain what is valuable in traditional methods of personality assessment while leveraging the technology of the future, such as AI and machine learning?
Dream Team: The Inner Workings of Teamwork
How did humans become the dominant species? Because of effective teamwork (and, OK, opposable thumbs). Hogan coach Jayson Blair explains here.
New Team Members: Bettina, Søren and Amanda
A&D Resources are delighted to announce two new Senior Consultants and one new Support Coordinator have joined the team.
What Team Psychological Safety Is and Why It Matters
Tania, the team lead, lays out a new process for the team to follow. Fatima sees an efficiency improvement but doesn’t say anything. Nigel feels disrespected that Tania didn’t consult him about his field of expertise. Sam wonders how the process will affect other teams but shows enthusiasm for Tania’s plan. Denise thinks the timeline is far too tight and asks how hard the deadline is. Tania says the deadline is a priority. What’s missing from this team? Psychological safety.
Maximizing Team Potential
Corporate team building done right can make productivity skyrocket. Maximizing team potential starts with understanding how personality influences our behavior at work.
Inclusive Leadership - Moving the Needle on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
The focus on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) has increased over recent years, but for some reason, we see very little change in terms of measurable differences year by year.
Diversity and the Dark Side
Diversity in the workplace remains a top concern for HR professionals and hiring managers. Changing the hiring process is a necessary step in preventing discrimination and keeping ahead of the competition — a recent study from the Center for Talent Innovation found workplaces that ensure diversity enjoy more success and attract more innovative employees than workplaces that don’t.
New Chairman of VPP Advisory Board
We are pleased to share that Thomas Clement-Christensen, Senior Consultant at A&D Resources, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Videnscenter for Professionel Personvurdering (VPP) Advisory Board.
Improving Diversity and Inclusion: Practical, Evidence-based Recommendations
The protests against systemic patterns of racism and police brutality following George Floyd’s death, the success of female heads of state leading their countries through the global pandemic, and the recent United States Supreme Court decision prohibiting workplace discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation are just a few of the topics that are spurring discussions about diversity and inclusion (D&I) right now.
How Companies should go about the talent development
Manage and Retain Creative Talent with These 5 Strategies
Talent shortage in creative roles is real and pressing, bringing employee retention to the forefront of effective managerial strategy. Because disrespect, lack of flexibility, and underwhelming benefits are major reasons workers quit their jobs in 2021,1 leaders must give even greater attention to the management of employees in creative teams—the innovators and creatives whose ideas drive organizational growth.
Using Personality Tests in Interviews: The Ticket to Hiring Success
Never underestimate a sound talent acquisition strategy. When organizations commit to using personality tests in interviews, they find candidates who fit seamlessly into their roles. And the candidates who discover a perfect synergy between their personalities and roles? They end up making magic on the job.
Key Steps to Choosing, Developing and Retaining the Right Talent
A position has just opened in the company. Either someone left the company, or a new position has been created internally. You need to figure out who to choose, how to develop them and enhance the chance of them staying in the new role for a longer period to avoid a quick turnover.
What’s Driving the Big Quit? (Part 1)
Early in my career, a friend and mentor shared sage advice with me. When you begin exploring other job or career opportunities, be certain you are running toward the new opportunity and not away from your current situation. Since then, I’ve always approached career growth and transition with intention, asking myself: Will this new opportunity fulfill me? Will I be challenged? Will it teach me something I want, should, or need to know?
Hiring Gen Z: Talent Attraction and Retention Strategies
You know the story: The skills gap is cavernous. The Great Resignation is here. Baby boomers are retiring at record pace. The employment climate is changing too quickly, and you have jobs to fill — you need to adapt. But how?
Your Talent Acquisition Playbook
A guide to crafting next-level talent identification, interviewing, and selection processes.
Executive Coaching: Strategic Self-Awareness
Can People Really Change? Practical Advice for Leadership Development
Can you change your personality? The answer is complicated — but it has profound implications for leadership development initiatives and the organizational results they produce.
How using Hogan Assessments can help develop effective teams
Humor and Personality in the Workplace
What is something that produces chemicals within the brain as if you are meditating and exercising at the same time, but is HR approved? Humor.1 Humor can be beneficial both outside the workplace and within the workplace. Outside of the workplace, humor improves physical well-being and mental health.2 Inside of the workplace, humor has been shown to reduce the negative effects of workplace stress and enhance job performance. Employee humor also boosts job satisfaction, team cohesion, health, and coping effectiveness, while decreasing burnout and work withdrawal.2
Team Development: Before you kick off…
If you have been following the European Football Championships this summer, you probably noticed that both coaches, players, and commentators have focused and talked a lot about “the strong team”. Teams have received a great deal of attention and there is a good reason for this. Selecting the best team and making it function has pretty much always shown to be a huge competitive advantage.
Can People Really Change? Practical Advice for Leadership Development
Can you change your personality? The answer is complicated — but it has profound implications for leadership development initiatives and the organizational results they produce.
How Do Personality Tests Work?
Personality is a person’s disposition or core wiring. It drives our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in ways that are highly predictable. In the same way that drivers use a map to see their route before stepping on the gas, employers should use a personality test to predict the likely performance trajectory of job candidates before making hiring decisions. But how do personality tests work?
Candidate Comparison Done Right
After the candidate pool has been sufficiently narrowed down, distinctions between highly qualified candidates can start to feel arbitrary. Employers may find themselves parsing minutiae, measuring Candidate A’s great anecdote about on-the-job innovation against Candidate B’s international experience and Candidate C’s arresting interpersonal skills.
On Fire or Out of Flames: Who Is at Risk for Burnout?
For the past year and a half, we all have lived with some degree of uncertainty as the global pandemic wreaked havoc, changing how we interact with others and live our lives.
The CEO Effect: What’s the Value of Who’s in Charge?
Reading the business news makes it obvious that CEOs have a huge impact on organizational success. When corporations succeed, their CEOs are usually credited for company performance.
Hogan Assessments Identifies A Strong Link Between Personality and Behaviours Supporting Diversity and Inclusion
Valid personality assessment promotes fairness in selection and can be used to identify leaders who promote diversity and inclusion in their decision-making
A&D Resources A/S Merges with Summit Consulting A/S
Summit Consulting A/S and A&D Resources A/S are pleased to announce the merger of the two companies.
Five Things To Know About Employee Engagement in 2021
The global shift to remote work following covid-19 has presented several key challenges for business leaders, many of which stem from communication obstacles and the of disruption of daily social activities. With teams suffering interpersonally right now due to remote work and lack of in-person interaction, leaders now more than ever are tasked with maintaining high employee engagement in the post-covid era.
Personality and Mindfulness – More Natural for Some than Others and How it Matters
Posted October 27, 2020 by Hogan Assessments
How Times of Crisis and Uncertainty Can Help You Spot High Potential
In any company, few things are more important than having a strong pipeline of high-performing leaders. In this new COVID-19 era, leadership teams everywhere are now faced with making critical decisions in an environment that changes hourly. Leaders from every size of organisation are required to exercise judgement in unprecedented scenarios.
COVID-19 and the Virtual Workspace: How personality assessments can help you manage talents during unstable times
With the spread of COVID-19, local and global regulations, decisions and recommendations are interrupting business. More companies choose to cancel physical meetings and limit employee travel while they let employees work remotely and transform in-person meetings and interviews into virtual meetings. That way organisations can continue to bring together groups of employees, interview and assess their candidates the best possible way.
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 dramatic change in form or appearance.” So, what organisation wouldn’t want to introduce some form of transformational leadership to respond to the disruption caused by the current digital revolution?
Teaming up tests can produce better results
Combining cognitive ability tests with personality assessment is twice as predictive of job performance in new candidates than critical reasoning tests alone.
Dr. Robert Hogan Receives RHR International Award for Excellence in Consulting Psychology
Hogan Assessment Systems are excited to announce that Dr. Robert Hogan was given the 2020 RHR International Award for Excellence in Consulting Psychology at the Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP) annual conference on February 8 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
How Hogan’s Personality Assessments Improve Workplace Safety
Each year, accidents and work-related illnesses cost billions of euros in needless business expenses. In 2017, Europe lost more than €476 billion – an amazing 3.3 % of the European Union GDP. That figure can be reduced with better occupational safety and health strategies, policies, and practices.
Personality Assessment and Performance Management
A critical task for leaders is to ensure that their followers are working efficiently toward the organisation’s goals. In business, employees whose work is aligned with the organisation’s objectives are more productive. So-called “performance management processes” are intended to create alignment between the employee’s work and the organisation’s goals.
Using Cognitive and Personality Assessments Together Improves Employee Selection
One of the primary tasks of leadership is to effectively and efficiently allocate an organisation’s resources. In business, this requires leaders to make critical decisions that ultimately determine the success or failure of the organisation. However, making good business decisions alone is not enough to guarantee success. Effective leaders must also have the interpersonal skills to get along with others and build high-performing teams.
Your Talent is Not a Game! Hogan Event in Stockholm 22 January 2020
The Dark Side of Leadership: 11 Reasons Leaders Fail
Being awarded a leadership role within an organisation may feel like an amazing accomplishment, but that is only half the battle.
A&D Resources obtains Hogan distribution rights in Sweden, Norway and Finland
Global Norm Update
In 2011 Hogan launched the world’s most representative and diverse working adult normative sample. Known as Hogan’s Global Norm, it quickly became the industry standard and allowed for true global assessment comparisons.
Since introducing the Global Norm, Hogan has assessed millions of working adults. With their commitment to providing the most well-constructed, state-of-the-art measurements, Hogan is pleased to announce an update to the Global Norm.
Hogan Personality Inventory Receives Stellar Review from The British Psychological Society
The British Psychological Society (BPS) has completed a test review of the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Assessments’ flagship assessment that describes normal personality.
Does Personality Change?
This is a question we receive regularly from our clients, along with a lot of hypotheses about when and why scores shift. Answering this seemingly straightforward question actually requires addressing three related questions:
- How often do scores on assessments change?
- When scores on assessments change, how large are those changes?
- Why do scores on assessments sometimes change?
Find, Grow, and Retain Top Talent: A 5-Step Plan
Assembling a roster of all-stars isn’t easy—and keeping your squad together is even harder. Steal these five strategies and your team will be a perennial contender.
Dealing with Poor Leadership
Last week we gathered more than 200 HR professionals, leaders and consultants in Copenhagen and Amsterdam to discuss the theme Dealing with Poor Leadership.
Dr. Jekyll + Mr. Jobs
Jorge E. Fernandez, a consultant with the Hogan Coaching Network, examines mercurial Apple founder Steve Jobs using the Hogan Development Survey (HDS), which describes the dark side of personality—qualities that emerge in times of increased strain that can disrupt relationships, damage reputations, and hinder peoples’ chances of success.
Six Lessons on Leadership
Dr. Robert Hogan continues to challenge mainstream thinking with his theories on personality and leadership. With his latest article he presents six lessons on leadership.
Another Shade of the Dark Side: Derailing Due to Underuse of Behaviors
The dark side of personality concerns behaviors and attributes that derail people – getting them into trouble and making them less effective as leaders. Typically, these derailers appear when people are under stress (e.g., they have a tight deadline, they are dealing with ambiguity, etc.) or when they are not self-monitoring (e.g., they are around people with whom they can let down their guard and not manage their image).
One person - two selves
In working with coaching, most of the topics that arise in deciding topics for a coaching process invariably float around two key questions:
- How am I to understand myself?
- How am I to understand my impact related to others i.e. understand others?
Test your knowledge about derailers
How well do you know the scales in the Hogan Development Survey? Test your knowledge on the 11 Derailers and perhaps challenge your colleagues to see who gets the best score. https://lnkd.in/eHB7QYa
RESILIENT TEAMS
The most important thing to create authentic, coherent and resilient teams is trust! Trust in the leader and trust in each other.
Those Elephants in the Room
The topic of team conflict has been a passion for me, and one I take seriously on behalf of the teams I work with. As easy as we might seem to grasp the word “conflict” rather intuitively, the actual tackling of the topic with teams has been conversely challenging, inspiring and perplexing all in one.
How to Work with Innovation Killers
Although we live in an age that glorifies innovation, there is a big difference between theoretically advocating for it and being able (or willing) to actually implement it. None of this is really new.
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
"...The recent debate over getting women to “lean in” has focused on getting them to adopt more of these dysfunctional leadership traits. Yes, these are the people we often choose as our leaders — but should they be?"
Dr. Hogan Discusses the Importance of Values
High performing groups will most likely share the same values - the important thing is to determine what those values are.
Too Much Charisma Can Make Leaders Look Less Effective
Conventional wisdom suggests that the most charismatic leaders are also the best leaders.
The Dark Side of Resilience
"Although we tend to celebrate individuals who aim high or dream big, it is usually more effective to adjust one’s goals to more achievable levels, which means giving up on others."
Hogan launches Leader Focus report
Hogan’s Leader Focus Report aims to simplify and provide insight into six leadership dimensions that influence leadership style and effectiveness.
What about Talent?
Everyone knows that the teams with the most talent and the best coach will win the competition. What is true for sports teams is often true for business operations. But finding top talent is difficult, and in any case, finding talent is not the same as using it efficiently. Here our managing director Joan Jakobsen and Hogan founder Dr. Robert Hogan present 5 points regarding how to find and use talent effectively.
Subscale Format Updates
In May, 2016 Hogan Assessments will launch a new brick format for graphically displaying HPI and MVPI subscale scores. This new display format is consistent with the format currently used for HDS subscales, although there are some minor differences in what these bricks mean across assessments.