Positive Leadership Traits Unveiled: Learning Approach – When Mastery Stalls Progress
Learning Approach measures how strongly an individual values formal learning, intellectual growth, and staying current with industry knowledge. High scorers gravitate toward education and expertise, while low scorers favour hands-on experience and real-time problem-solving.
Charismatic Leadership in Politics
Since the dawn of government, charismatic politicians have seemed to have a significant advantage when it comes to holding leadership roles. They enamor us with their confidence, vision, and their ability to tell us what we want to hear. But charismatic leadership is not necessarily the same as effective leadership. Why do humans feel so attracted to charisma?
Positive Leadership Traits Unveiled: Inquisitive – When Curiosity Becomes a Distraction
Is your thirst for knowledge fuelling radical innovation, or is it leading you down a rabbit hole of endless possibilities without action?
Positive Leadership Traits Unveiled: Prudence – Precision or Paralysis in Decision-Making?
Is your meticulous attention to detail propelling your success, or could it be holding you back from innovation?
Positive Leadership Traits Unveiled: Interpersonal Sensitivity – Balancing Empathy and Excess
Does your knack for harmony help your team flourish, or could it hinder honest communication?
Positive Leadership Traits Unveiled: Sociability – Is your ability to connect with others great or not?
Have you ever wondered if your natural flair for conversation is propelling your career forward—or if it might be creating unexpected roadblocks?
Positive Leadership Traits Unveiled: Ambition – The Fine Line Between Drive and Disruption
Is your drive to succeed propelling you forward or pushing others away?
Positive Leadership Traits Unveiled: Is Adjustment Resilience or Rigidity?
Have you ever considered that your greatest strengths might also present challenges?
Can Job Applicants Fake Personality Tests?
Not really, although it depends on what is meant by the word “faking.”
Udvikling af det personlige lederskab – refleksioner og værktøjer
Godt lederskab er en kompleks disciplin, der stiller væsentlige krav til lederens evne til at tilpasse sin ledelse til mange forskellige situationer, som “kalder på” meget forskellige adfærdsmønstre – adfærd som kan falde lederen mere eller mindre naturligt.
Development of Personal Leadership – Reflections and Tools
Good leadership is a complex discipline that places significant demands on a leader’s ability to adapt their leadership style to a wide range of situations, each requiring very different behavioural patterns – some of which may come more naturally to the leader than others.
Top Trends in Personality Assessment in 2025
Which talent challenges inform how the most effective organizations will use personality assessment for people decisions in 2025? Learn more.
The Impact of Personality on High Potentials
Personality assessment can have a critical impact on high-potential development. Find out how.
The 2024 Derailers of the Year
The year 2024 seemed to go by in the blink of an eye, yet it was full of newsworthy people and events that relate to the Hogan Development Survey (HDS).
Three Types of Social Influence: Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
We’ve all allowed others to influence our decisions, whether consciously or subconsciously.
The Hidden Drawbacks of a Nice Corporate Culture
A nice corporate culture comes with some hidden drawbacks. Discover why organizations with a nice culture struggle with productivity and profitability.
What is Artificial Harmony, and Why Does It Hold Teams Back?
Why Do So Many Team Meetings Feel Polite but Unproductive? Picture this: a team meeting where everyone nods in agreement, avoiding disagreements and maintaining a calm, polite atmosphere. On the surface, it seems harmonious. But beneath the smiles, key issues remain unaddressed, feedback is withheld, and progress stalls. This is the trap of artificial harmony, […]
Navigating Leadership Transitions: Advice for New CEOs
What unique transition challenges do new CEOs face? How can they optimize high performance in the crucial first few months?
A Quick Guide to: Validity and Reliability
Choosing the right assessment for selecting or developing employees can make or break the success of a talent initiative. Why bother using assessments that don’t predict performance or that fail to resonate with your business leaders?
The Ultimate Guide to Personality Tests
Personality is the driving force behind human behavior. At Hogan, we eat, sleep, and breathe personality psychology. We study the science of personality, we’ve pioneered the use of personality tests to improve workplace performance, and our tests evaluate all aspects of personality: the bright side, the dark side, and the inside.
Is Your Employee Engagement Strategy Working?
Low employee engagement isn’t necessarily a bad thing. For an effective employee engagement strategy, transparency is critical. Here’s why.
Modern Team Development
Teamwork has changed significantly in recent years, as many of us have transitioned to hybrid or remote working models. But teams haven’t disappeared; they just operate differently now.
Measuring IQ and EQ
What are the differences between IQ and EQ? This article discusses the meaning and measurement of intelligence and emotional intelligence.
Job Satisfaction: What Is a Dream Job, Anyway?
We all want to find meaning in our lives, and this includes finding job satisfaction or a fulfilling career. But what is a dream job, anyway? Find out here.
How Imposter Syndrome Can Improve Performance
Ever feel like a fraud? Learn about the three types of imposter syndrome and how to use imposter syndrome to improve performance.
Summit Is Expanding Its Horizons by Becoming the Authorised Hogan Assessments Distributor in the Baltic Region
We are proud to announce that Summit has become the authorised distributor of Hogan Assessments in the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. This strategic move is part of our efforts to grow our portfolio beyond the Nordic and Benelux regions.
How to Develop High-Potential Employees
How can organizations build an effective program to identify and develop high-potential employees? Find out in this article.
The Importance of Values
Values influence organizational effectiveness. Learn about the importance of values and how organizational values promote success.
Getting Assessment Advice from ChatGPT
Getting assessment advice from ChatGPT or other AI tools is ill-advised. Find out why here.
How to Adapt Leadership Development Strategies Across Managerial Levels
Leadership development strategies should be implemented across managerial levels. Learn how to equip leaders for success as their roles evolve.
Do you know your dark sides? – Dutiful
Coaching the Dutiful scale
Do you know your dark sides? Diligent
Coaching the Diligent scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Imaginative
Coaching the Imaginative scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Colorful
Coaching the Colorful scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Mischievous
Coaching the Mischievous scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Bold
Coaching the Bold Scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Leisurely
Coaching the Leisurely Scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Reserved
Coaching the Reserved scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Cautious
Coaching the Cautious scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Skeptical
Coaching the Skeptical scale
Do you know your dark sides? – Excitable
Coaching the Excitable scale
2023 Derailers of the Year in the US
For the fourth year in a row, Hogan evaluates the derailers of the year. Find out what they picked for 2023.
Culture Matters
Do different types of leaders emerge in different markets? How do personality and culture impact cross-border business?
Elevating the Recruitment Journey with Hogan Assessments
Recruitment is an essential aspect of any organisation, and it is constantly evolving. The recruitment landscape in Europe is no exception, with various trends shaping the industry.
The Talent War: A Conversation with George Randle
When talent is your only true competitive advantage, you should base your talent acquisition strategy on personality data. Find out why here.
A World Without Assessments: Rolling the Dice on Candidates
Attempts to ban personality tests in the workplace have thus far been unsuccessful. But what would a world without assessments look like? Find out here.
The Psychology of Humility
Humility is a dimension of personality that is essential to understanding leadership performance. Here’s why.
How to Lead a Creative Team
Not everyone has the skills needed to lead a creative team. Find out which five are most necessary for leading creative teams effectively.
Why Assessment-Based Coaching Is Far Superior
Assessment-based coaching is superior to any other kind because it starts with data. Learn more about why this matters for coaches and talent.
Vad ska man göra med ett underpresterande team?
Ett annat ledningsmöte har just avslutats, och du sitter kvar med en känsla av frustration. Trots alla ansträngningar, planering och diskussioner, verkar det som om ditt team inte lever upp till förväntningarna.
What To Do With an Underperforming Team?
Another leadership team meeting is over, and once again, nothing useful came out of it. And it’s likely that the next time won’t be any different. So, what should be done when the results are lacking, and the team is underperforming?
What Is Psychological Safety?
Learn about the importance of team psychological safety and how to develop it in the workplace.
Candidate Comparison Done Right
Using personality tests with interviews makes candidate comparison objective and — dare we say it — easy.
How Change Fatigue Derails Teams
How can teams mitigate the risk of change fatigue and team derailment? And what can leaders do if their team has already derailed?
Maximizing Team Potential
Team building isn’t as easy as it may seem. Tune in to learn how personality affects teams and how to maximize team potential at work.
Product Focus: Team Report
There’s little sense in developing individuals if they don’t come together to make an effective team. Summit and Hogan’s unique approach to team development examines the goals of the team and identifies how the different personalities within the team can help or hinder achieving them.
Leveraging Values to Keep Individuals and Teams Engaged
The world of work, and our individual and collective place in it, has been continually shifting over the past hundred years. But with the current unprecedented global disruption, these shifts have become dramatic and jarring, seemingly redefining weekly what it means to work. Employee motivation has been thrust into the spotlight, and for good reason…
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.
