Reading Time: 3 minutesPopular wisdom will have you believe that a leader is someone who exudes confidence and charisma because they appear smart, interesting, and engaging. However, more often than not, these types of leaders wreak havoc on the workplace. A growing body of research suggests that humility is a far more important quality in a leader than… Read more »
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Don’t Miss Your Chance to Get Hogan Certified in 2018
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith four and a half months left in the year, you still have time to get Hogan Certified in the US in 2018. Hogan’s certification and learning programs will equip you to leverage Hogan’s powerful assessment tools to solve critical business problems. Whether you want to select high performers, develop your high potentials, coach executives,… Read more »
Engagement — Who Is Responsible?
Reading Time: 2 minutes*This is a guest post authored by Rob Field, Learning and Development Director at Advanced People Strategies. Every business I know is working to measure engagement. After all, the difference between good and great lies in discretionary effort. Drive higher engagement and get better results. What could be simpler? How to make it happen and… Read more »
Forget Charisma, Look for Humility in a Leader
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe existing paradigm in the business world holds that successful CEOs are ambitious, result-oriented, individualistic, and, above all, charismatic. The rise of agency theory, or the notion that incentivizing managers should improve shareholder returns, put greater emphasis on the need to hire leaders that appear leader-like. Unfortunately, conventional wisdom of what a leader looks like… Read more »
Hogan Announces RELEVANT Management Consulting as New Distributor
Reading Time: 2 minutesHogan is proud to officially announce the addition of RELEVANT Management Consulting to the Hogan International Distributor Network. Hogan has an intense focus for helping individuals, teams, and companies across the globe be the best they can be, and we are so happy to have RELEVANT improving our reach throughout Europe and beyond. Leading this… Read more »
There Must Always Be a Leader, and It Matters Who That Is – Interview with Dr. Robert Hogan
Reading Time: 6 minutes*This interview was originally published in Business Class Magazin – this is the translation of the Hungarian text. The original version can be found here. We met Dr. Robert Hogan at the Four Seasons Budapest. He is an American psychologist and the founder of Hogan Assessments who has institutionalized the use of personality assessments for… Read more »
What’s Worse Than a Tyrannical Leader? One Who Isn’t There
Reading Time: 4 minutes*This article was written by Danielle King and published in Human Resource Executive on June 1, 2018. How to Recognize Absentee Leaders. A high-performing salesperson knocks his sales goals out of the park every month and consistently brings in new clients while maintaining great internal and external relationships. When a new sales-leadership position opens, his… Read more »
New Study Lists Robert Hogan As One of the Greatest Living Psychologists
Reading Time: 2 minutes*This press release originally appeared on Business Wire. In a new study published in Psychology, Dr. Robert Hogan, Chairman & President of Hogan Assessments, was nominated by his peers as a top psychologist in multiple categories. The study, conducted by Adrian Furnham, Professor of Psychology at University College London and the Norwegian Business School, asked… Read more »
THUOPER Developing Colombia’s Next Generation of Leaders
Reading Time: 3 minutesTHUOPER, Hogan’s Colombian distributor, embodies one of Hogan’s core values: developing future leaders. Ineffective leadership has plagued the global workforce for centuries, mostly because the characteristics that help people emerge as leaders are quite different from those that make an effective leader. Of course, when leadership potential has been measured incorrectly for so long, there… Read more »
Find, Grow, and Retain Top Talent: A 5-Step Plan
Reading Time: 4 minutes*This article was authored by Robert Hogan and Joan Jacobsen, and was originally published in The New Thinking Issue of Talent Quarterly. Visit their website to purchase the full issue as well as all previous issues. Assembling a roster of all-stars isn’t easy—and keeping your squad together is even harder. Steal these five strategies and your team… Read more »