New eBook: Coaching Strategies

Providing candidates with accurate feedback about the behaviors they should keep doing, stop doing, and start doing is the first step to improving their interpersonal effectiveness. The Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and the Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory provide useful feedback about what individuals need to do to improve their performance at work. This interpretation guide uses a simple, but focused, series of steps to help affect behavioral and repetitional change for the coaching candidate. Visit our bookstore to purchase Coaching Strategies.

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2012 Business Outcomes

When you use one of Hogan’s assessment solutions, you can trust that it works. Hogan conducted 40 ROI studies in 2011 and 2012 for clients ranging from retail to manufacturing. Year after year, we provide empirical evidence, from increased store sales to improved organizational safety, of how our assesments impact clients’ bottom lines. Regardless of industry sector or job type, Hogan’s assessments provide a significant, long-term return on investment.

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We Want Mr. Personality

  Although it sounds like the plot from dozens of bad romantic comedies, recent research suggests that who you are on the inside (your personality) is more important than how you look when it comes to catching the eye of that special someone. Read More »

CEOs Aren’t Like Us

What makes a great chief executive? Although leadership is one of the most studied subjects in academia and the business world, there is no clear answer to this question, in part because so little research has been done examining what separates CEOs from the rest of us. To answer this question, Hogan partner Winsborough Limited analyzed a database of New Zealand chief executive applicants along three dimensions: bright-side, or normal personality, values, and dark-side personality, or derailers. Winsborough research describes three types of CEOs, their typical derailers, and the development needs of most CEOs. Occupying the top role is not the same as being effective in it. This research identifies the characteristics of the average CEO. However, these are not necessarily characteristics of a successful CEO. A good team can carry a mediocre CEO. A good CEO cannot carry a mediocre team. Thus, good CEOs build high-performing teams. To find out how CEOs are different from us, read the white paper.

The Chain of Screaming

In season 3, episode 15, of the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” one of the characters introduces the gang to a workplace phenomenon called the chain of screaming. I’ll let the video clip below do the heavy lifting, but it basically works like this: my boss’s boss screams at my boss, who in turn screams at me, after which I scream at one of my subordinates, and so on. Read More »