What’s the Difference Between Groups and Teams?
What is a team, and what is a group? The difference between teams and groups lies in how the group or team members pursue goals. Here’s how you can differentiate between groupwork and teamwork.
Competency Mapping: The Path to Successful Selection
How can you ensure that you identify and select the right leaders to meet your specific needs and goals?
Workplace Safety in Europe: Detailed Analysis of Accidents and the Preventive Role of Personality Assessments
Despite continuous efforts by industrials, companies and governments, workplace accidents persist across the European Union.
Unleashing Potential: The Power of an Assessment and Development Centre
In today’s competitive business landscape, selecting the right talent and nurturing their potential is crucial for the success of any organisation. To ensure an objective and comprehensive assessment of candidates, our Assessment and Development Centre combines Hogan’s assessments with a wide range of exercises tailored to match the required competencies. Here we highlight the key features and benefits of our Centre, as discussed in an interview with our expert consultants.
The Importance of Competency Assessments for Sustainable Talent Management
More than ever, the future of organizations depends critically on reliably identifying and developing the competencies of employees that are critical to the organization.
Making a Difference: The Impact of Cykelnerven
We are delighted to share that we are sponsoring Cykelnerven, a charity bike ride in Denmark that aims to raise funds for research into multiple sclerosis. It is an honour to support such a worthy cause and make a contribution that helps fund the research. The money raised through Cykelnerven goes towards research into finding […]
What the Dark Triad Misses
The Dark Triad refers to narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. But those aren’t all the dark-side personality characteristics. What are the others?
AI in Psychology
You can’t avoid AI in psychology, coaching, or consulting, but you can learn to partner with it. Find out how.
What is leadership?
Famed management consultant Peter Drucker, PhD, once described leadership as being about followership. This may sound redundant, but from our perspective, there’s much more to it. At Hogan, we’ve been studying leadership for decades. In fact, we’re an international authority in the subject—specifically in the relationship between leadership, personality, and job performance. But we realize […]
Using Personality Assessment to Save Lives
Personality plays a role in developing and maintaining a safe workplace environment. It can predict safe behavior and even save lives. How?
Leadership Emergence vs. Leadership Effectiveness
Emergent leaders seem leaderlike. Effective leaders lead. Find out how personality influences leadership and why versatility is key.
From Resistance to Receptivity: Predicting Feedback Resistance
Hogan assessment data enables practitioners and coaches to predict the likelihood and the types of feedback resistance. Learn how.
Which Personality Traits Characterise a Leader in the Nordic Region?
It has been speculated about for years what kind of differences there are between leaders from different countries and cultures. Are there even differences based on regions or are the differences based on something else? We have analysed Hogan Assessments data from more than 7,000 leaders from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland against the global […]
How to Incorporate Well-Being into Leadership Development
Hogan practitioners should incorporate well-being into leadership development conversations. Learn how and why to add well-being to your repertoire.
Psychological Safety and the Distant Leader
How a leader responds to stress affects the team’s psychological safety. Find out about the effects of a distant leader’s dark-side characteristics.
Our New Name: Summit
As of January 1, 2023, we are operating under a new name, finalising the merger of Summit Consulting A/S and A&D Resources A/S.
The 2022 Derailers of the Year
From Will Smith to Elon Musk, the year saw big events, big personalities—and big derailers. Welcome to the 2022 derailers of the year.
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?
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?
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.
Improving Diversity and Inclusion: Practical, Evidence-based Recommendations
Defining Diversity and InclusionThere are different ways to define D&I in the context of the workplace.
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.
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 is Personality? Identity Versus Reputation
Most of us believe that we are intimately aware of our own personalities, but this belief is only partially true.