Tag: personality

Our Assessments Work Anywhere

Reading Time: 5 minutes*This post was authored by Ryne Sherman and Brandon Ferrell. 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… Read more »

Personality Assessment and Performance Management

Reading Time: 3 minutesA critical task for leaders is to ensure that their followers are working efficiently toward the organization’s goals. In business, employees whose work is aligned with the organization’s objectives are more productive. So-called “performance management processes” are intended to create alignment between the employee’s work and the organization’s goals. A typical performance management process might… Read more »

VIDEO: Bob Hogan on the Nature of Human Nature

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to Hogan Assessments founder Robert Hogan, life is about competition. There’s competition within groups to attain status, and those who win generally are those with good social skills. There’s also competition between groups, and the groups with the strongest leaders win in this arena. Competition within groups is what fascinates and entertains people. However,… Read more »

It’s Time to Stop Vilifying Ambition

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe concept of ambition has a bad reputation in popular culture. The textbook definition – a strong desire to achieve something, typically through determination and hard work – seems innocuous, but the word is often associated with destructive consequences. Napoleon, Stalin, and Hitler were ambitious, and that cost the world millions of lives. On a… Read more »

The Value of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe MBTI is the best known and most widely used personality “instrument” in the world. Find out why!

Does Personality Change? On the Stability of Personality Assessment Scores

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Reading Time: 5 minutesDoes 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? Personality assessments—like the ones we create at Hogan—measure patterns of behavior. Decades… Read more »

The Personality of Donald Trump

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe fate of any organization is largely a function of that organization’s leadership. The organization of the United States is no exception to this rule. As such, it is appropriate to understand Donald Trump’s personality and its impact on the function of the United States. I do not personally know Mr. Trump and I have… Read more »

Assessing the Assessor—Evaluating Personality Assessment Tools

Reading Time: 3 minutesToday, many organizations use personality assessment tools to assess their employees. But before deciding to use a personality tool, should organizations create their own thermometer test?  Imagine someone walking up to a doctor with a new kind of device that claims to measure the body temperature. What if the manufacturer requested the doctor to endorse… Read more »