Flawed Leadership: Is it Pressure or Personality?

Webinar: August 12, 2008
2 PM - 3 PM EST

Every Talent Manager is trained to recognize the positive attributes that identify a high-potential candidate. However, when the pressure is on, a whole new side of the candidate emerges. These derailer characteristics are what peers and subordinates encounter during day-to-day interactions.

If talent management is indeed about building for the future, these derailers should be at the front and center of related discussion. Ryan Ross, Director of Alliances and Partners at Hogan Assessment Systems, and Brandy Agnew, Global Organizational and Talent Development at DELL will discuss trends in proactively identifying candidate derailers prior to placement in a high-potential program, best practices to minimize their effect on performance, and preventing derailment by focusing on correct placement and promotion strategy.

With the shrinking talent pool, expanded responsibilities of leaders, and the intense pressure being placed on leaders, the impact of flawed leadership attributes has become a central focus across organizations.

To learn more about the free webinar, click here. To sign up, click here.

The Conference Board Webcast featuring Dr. Robert Hogan
Assessing Leadership Derailment Behaviors

Webcast: July 17, 2008
2 PM - 3:30 PM EST

"Leadership derailment" by definition means behaviors that cause leaders to overestimate their own abilities, lose sight of how their actions impact others, and alienate peers and subordinates. This webcast will feature an historical overview of the concept of derailment, a review of available assessment instruments and case studies detailing how organizations have incorporated derailment assessments into their talent management process. As a participant pre-registering for this webcast, you will have the opportunity to complete an assessment that measures derailment characteristics, receive a copy of the data and review your assessment report in a follow-up phone call with an outside consultant if you so desire.

This webcast will discuss:
• The history surrounding leadership derailment behaviors — early research, development of a taxonomy of derailment, and ways of assessing derailment.
• Specific tools to measure derailment tendencies and ways of profiling an organization's culture to determine which derailment behaviors carry the most weight in a given corporate culture.
• Ways organizations use and integrate information on derailment in the talent management process including development planning initiatives.

Dr. Robert Hogan, President, Hogan Assessment Systems

For more information and to register, please call +1 212 339 0345.
Webcast Fees: The fee for this webcast is $350 for Conference Board members and $450 for non-members. Please contact customer service at +1 212 339 0345 for more information on special rates.

Management Derailment
Personality Assessment and Mitigation

The base rate of managerial incompetence is about fifty percent, and every competent study of managerial failure points to overriding personality defects as the key issue. These personality derailers undermine a leader's ability to build and maintain a high functioning team.

Bad management can be minimized through selection, development, and managing job transitions carefully. If organizations observe the principles of good management, including how they manage their managers, then they are more profitable. When organizations ignore the principles of good management, they are less profitable, and they subject their employees to unnecessary stress and abuse.

To read the full white paper by Robert Hogan, Joyce Hogan, and Rob Kaiser, click here.

The Hogan Safety Report is an easy to use, intuitive and high-performing measure of safe work behavior. Based on 28 years of research, the Hogan Safety Report is designed to help companies improve productivity, reduce turnover, lower accident rates and increase team and customer satisfaction.

Applicable to a wide range of industries, the Hogan Safety Report determines a candidate's work style and overall safety orientation, assuring high-quality, safety-conscious employees. Employers can expect to maximize selection procedures for hiring safer employees, as well as to help determine the extent to which their current workforce is comprised of safe workers.

Click here to view our latest client value stories using the Hogan Safety Report.

Every leader has personality characteristics that threaten his or her success. The Hogan Development Survey is the only business-related inventory that measures performance risks that impede work relationships, hinder productivity and limit overall career potential. The HDS provides valuable feedback for strategic self-awareness, which is key to overcoming these tendencies and achieving success in the workplace.

Click here to view the 11 HDS derailers. Which one are you?

Hogan Attends Assessment Summit

with German Partners

In mid-May, Hogan Assessments’ partners in Germany, Metaberatung, welcomed Hogan consultants Jamie Bomer and Eric Nelson to Dusseldorf. Dr. Rainer Neubauer and the Metaberatung staff offered multiple opportunities for Ms. Bomer and Dr. Nelson to update staff on the newest developments at Hogan Assessment Systems and to meet with Metaberatung clients seeking to expand the use of Hogan Assessments in their own selection and development activities.

Dr. Rainer Neubauer (far left), Dr. Eric Nelson (third from left), Jamie Bomer (far right), and members of the Metaberatung staff in Dusseldorf

Attendees of the conference appreciated both the information offered throughout the day, and the collaboration between Metaberatung and Hogan in organizing an informative and energizing conference. For more information on using Hogan Assessments in Germany and Switzerland please visit Metaberatung.

Hogan and OPTIMAL Consulting Host Seminars in Singapore and Malaysia

Jarrett Shalhoop, a consultant with Hogan's International division, gave a series of talks May 8th and 9th in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, respectively. The events were sponsored by Hogan Assessments’ partner in the region, OPTIMAL Consulting Group, Pte Ltd.

In Singapore, Dr. Shalhoop gave a presentation to a private audience from Motorola titled “Leadership and Fate of Organizations,” based on the recent article published by Dr. Robert Hogan in the journal American Psychologist.

Wan Leng Ho, Managing Director of OPTIMAL Consulting Group, noted “The audience was enlightened by the many different ways in which Hogan assessments can be used to deliver bottom line impact in organizations.” The events highlighted the partnership of Hogan Assessments and OPTIMAL Consulting, who have been Hogan’s representatives in the region for 3 years. For additional information about using Hogan assessments in South Asia, please visit Hogan Worldwide.

Hogan Launches Partnership in South Korea

Hogan Assessments is proud to announce its partnership with Organizational Revitalization and Performance Institute (ORPI), which will serve as Hogan’s representative in South Korea. On May 12th and 13th, Jarrett Shalhoop, a consultant with Hogan's International division, traveled to Seoul and conducted a Hogan Certification Workshop for ORPI and their clients.

Throughout the 2-day workshop attendees were introduced to the theory behind personality assessment, learned about the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values Preferences Inventory (MVPI), and practiced interpreting assessment results as well as delivering development feedback.

Upcoming Hogan Certification Workshops

Hogan Advanced Workshop - Team Building*

Workshop Location: Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Atlanta, GA
Dates: July 15, 2008
Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For More Information or To Register: click here
*As a prerequisite for the Hogan Advanced Workshops, participants must have successfully completed the Hogan Assessment Certification Workshop.

Hogan Assessment Certification Workshop

Workshop Location: Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Atlanta, GA
Dates: July 22 - 23, 2008
Hours: Tuesday, July 22nd - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, July 23rd - 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For More Information or To Register: click here

Hogan Assessment Certification Workshop

Workshop Location: Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Atlanta, GA
Dates: August 26 - 27, 2008
Hours: Tuesday, August 26th - 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, August 27th- 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For More Information or To Register: click here

A variety of Hogan Assessment Certification Workshops are available throughout the year. Please click here for more information.

Hogan Out, About and in the News

• Dr. Robert Hogan recently was consulted for an MSNBC article on the recent increase in safety-related workplace deaths and injuries.

• James Killian and Stephanie Jackson will speak at the annual convention of the International Association of Black Professional Fire Firefighters on August 5th. The workshop title is Leadership Development: Using Assessments for Strategic Self-Awareness, and covers the competencies and personality characteristics that define leadership success and/or derailment. The workshop also will highlight how personality assessments can provide strategic self-awareness to maximize leadership career development.

• On September 4th, Dr. Robert Hogan will be a featured speaker at ERIAC Capital Humano organiza el Foro Mundial de Recursos Humanos 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico. For more information, click here.

• Dr. Robert Hogan will be the keynote speaker for the 2008 Personnel Testing Council Annual Conference on October 2-3 in Huntington Beach, California. To learn more, click here.

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