High Potentials: Are You Doing It Wrong?

“High Potentials – Are you doing it wrong?” asks Hogan Assessment’s Ryan Ross in his presentation at Mentis Consulting’s Hogan Summit 2013. This in-depth talk focuses on identifying candidates most likely to help meet the future leadership needs of your company.

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HR’s Business Function

With technology and organizations more advanced and complex than they’ve ever been, HR is struggling to keep up the good fight. “Unfortunately, what we see is HR systems developed ad-hoc; one set of tools for selection, another for middle managers, and another for high-level leadership development, and none of those systems communicate,” said Ryan Ross, vice president of Global Alliances at Hogan.

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Robert Hogan on Good Judgment

“Personality is about what people do and judgment is about why they do it,” says Dr. Robert Hogan in this presentation given at Mentis Consulting’s Hogan Summit 2013. This 30-minute talk focuses on good judgment and decision making. Using examples and case studies from notable entrepreneurs and politicians around the world, Dr. Hogan illustrates how people’s decisions relate to leadership and how this affects their business.

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Military, politics, or the private sector – it’s lonely at the top

  It seems more trouble is brewing in the military’s upper ranks. In the same month the Army released a report detailing its problem with toxic leaders and their role in the rash of soldier suicides over the past year, the Washington Post is reporting misconduct among the nation’s top brass. From allegations drinking on duty in the Air Force to sexual misconduct and even assault in the Army and Navy, no branch was exempt. Read More »

The Eye of the Perceiver

In recent preparation for some out-of-town company, I panicked at the state of my house. The carpets had not been vacuumed, the bathtubs not scrubbed, and the mirrors needed glass cleaner, desperately.

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Narcissism: A truth universally acknowledged…by all but one

  With a college background in literature, I tend to relate ideas and concepts to narrative forms deriving anywhere from the classics to contemporary rom-coms (I don’t discriminate). So, when I see narcissism trending in the news, I inevitably search my story database for an exaggerated narcissistic character for comparison. And who should pop into my head other than that dastardly fink, Daniel Cleaver from Bridget Jones’s Diary, a contemporary version of Jane Austen’s antagonist, the rakish Mr. Wickham. Read More »