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Understanding and Preventing Burnout: A Major Challenge for Companies

9. May 2025

Burnout is a state of physical, psychological, and emotional exhaustion resulting from chronic stress.

burnout, PGLecture

Business Breakfast Meeting - 14th May 2025

8. May 2025

We look forward to welcoming our guests to the Widder Hotel next Wednesday, 14th May, for an insightful breakfast focused on strategic self-awareness!

PGEvents, Insights

Can Burnout Risk Be Identified During the Selection Process?

14. April 2025

While certain personality traits can increase an individual's susceptibility to burnout—such as a strong drive for achievement, perfectionism, or a tendency to take on too much—burnout rarely arises from personality alone.

Business Impact Study

14. April 2025

We’d be happy to co-develop a Business Impact Study with you to evaluate how using Hogan assessments or our consulting services (e.g., team workshops, leadership development, selection processes) influences key outcomes relevant to your organization.

PGStudy

Female Leadership Training

17. March 2025

Gain valuable insights into your personality profile, discover areas for development, and access modules on visibility, negotiation, conflict management, and more to enhance your leadership skills.

Female Leadership

Interview on Women at Work - Nevena Buzek

17. March 2025

Our team member Constance Tournier recently interviewed Nevena Buzek, leadership coach, about the challenges women face in leadership and how to overcome them.

PGmeet, Female Leadership, Future Skills, Leadership

Leadership & Personality Workshop with Femella

17. March 2025

Discover more about our workshop on personality and leadership, hosted in collaboration with the Femella Organisation in Zürich!

PGEvents, Feedback, Female Leadership

How to Structure Meetings for More Flow

6. February 2025

Ever been fully immersed in a task, performing at your best? That’s flow, and your meeting schedule can significantly impact it. Research by Steven Rogelberg highlights three strategies to optimize your workday:

PGarticle, Future Skills, Leadership

How to boost your employees' FLOW?

6. February 2025

Drawing on insights from Knight Campbell, Leadership Instructor, here are 3 strategies to foster FLOW within your team.

Leadership, Personality Assessments

What is your leadership style?

15. January 2025

One way to ensure success in 2025 with your team is to develop self-awareness about your leadership approach.

Leadership

Vision Board 2025

15. January 2025

Are you still in planning mode, or is your vision board for 2025 ready?

PGarticle, Leadership

Transformational Leadership

15. January 2025

Transformational leaders inspire employees to exceed expectations and work toward a shared vision.

Leadership

Team Personality Diversity: The Key to High Performance?

23. December 2024

These past years, work psychologist researchers focused their studies profoundly on how to increase the performance of teams at work.

Diversity, Teams

Let’s Talk About Team Meetings!

23. December 2024

We’ve all left a team call at some point thinking, “What a waste of time!”

Team Workshop – Interview with Florian Franzen

23. December 2024

Florian Franzen serves as our Personality Guide at PG, overseeing consulting, certification, and coaching initiatives.

Exercise on Biases in Performance Reviews

20. November 2024

Performance management is crucial for aligning employees’ goals with those of your organization. When evaluating your team members, you typically consider both task performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) – those extra efforts employees make that go beyond their formal duties to support your team and your organization. These are often included in a 360-degree review.

PGExercise

Recruitment Biases – Interview With Julia

20. November 2024

Julia Pelé, Senior Consultant at Michael Page in Geneva, tell us more about her perspective on recruitment biases.

PGmeet, Diversity

Interview on Feedback with Florian Franzen

18. November 2024

Can you describe your approach to giving constructive feedback? How do you ensure it is effective and well-received?

Feedback, PGmeet, Future Skills

BUSINESS SUNDOWNER ZÜRICH

18. November 2024

In her inspiring keynote, Out of comfort zone – magic can happen, Deniz shared key insights into how she achieved her dream of crossing the Channel in 15 hours and 8 minutes in 2019.

PGmeet, Personality

Success factor #1: Trust

18. November 2024

The world has undergone rapid transformation in recent years due to digitalization, fundamentally changing communication, business, and even the economy, while the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents an even greater challenge in various sectors, including education and research. Amid these shifts, trust remains the one essential element that no technology can replace, even as new skills and talents are needed to adapt to the evolving landscape.

PGarticle, Leadership, Personality

Work biases - Interview with Virgilia

7. November 2024

Virgilia Jansen-Preilowski, systemic coach and psychologist, tell us more about her perspective on work biases.

PGmeet, Leadership, Talent Management

List your values - exercise

16. October 2024

Edgar Schein is a Swiss-born American psychologist who made notable contributions in the field of career development and organizational culture. He created an organizational culture model with 3 levels: artifacts, values and underlying assumptions.

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AI in Focus

26. September 2024

Since the introduction of Chat GPT in November 2022, we have probably all become familiar with the advantages and limitations of AI. Reason enough to take a look at how AI specifically affects the implementation and further development of personality assessments.

PGarticle, Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights

Can AI predict personality?

26. September 2024

Artificial intelligence is probably older than you think. AI has existed as a concept for more than 70 years, and the first models were built in the mid-1950s. While the technology is not brand new, it’s the center of public attention right now. This is especially true regarding the use of AI in personality tests and other talent management applications. We’ve put together this guide to answer some of your most pressing questions about AI, personality tests, and talent management.

PGLecture, Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights

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Managing Creative Teams

26. September 2024

If you’ve ever led creative people, you know that managing creative teams takes special techniques. Creativity and imagination can bring innovation as well as impracticality.

PGLecture, Leadership, Insights, Teams

Launching New Teams and Improving Team Performance

26. September 2024

Teams are fundamental structures for getting work done, and tens to thousands of teams can be found in organizations. Despite the prevalence of teams, research shows that only 10-20 percent are high-performing, which means most have room for improvement.

PGLecture, Insights, Teams

Exercise - Hiring Talents

18. September 2024

One effective way to recruit top talent is through behavioral interviews, which focus on measuring competencies. Talented employees excel in their work by displaying effective behaviors. Behavioral interviews ask candidates to explain how they have behaved or would behave in specific situations, rather than simply observing their behavior.

PGExercise, Talent Management

Too-much-talent effect

18. September 2024

Have you ever heard of the Tiki-Taka football style in the Barcelona Team? This technique based on short, quick passes was Xavi, Iniesta and Messi strategy to be coordinated and performant. If we think about these players, we think about top talents. And if we think about how they were able to perform Tiki-Taka, we think about task interdependence.

PGarticle, Personality Assessments, Talent Management

Femella - the challenge of giving feedback

14. August 2024

On one side, feedback is a fundamental aspect of workplace communication, often perceived as a straightforward task. Many assume that giving feedback is simple or even unnecessary, viewing it as a mandatory formality rather than a valuable tool for growth.

PGmeet, Future Skills, Insights

Feedback Exercise

14. August 2024

Self-awareness is crucial for effective leadership. One way to enhance self-knowledge is by understanding how others perceive you. As an exercise, we recommend that leaders take the opportunity to seek feedback from their colleagues or employees.

PGExercise, Feedback, Insights

How to grow from feedback

2. July 2024

From an early age, feedback is an essential part of personal and professional personal and professional development. Who doesn’t remember parent-teacher conferences at school, getting feedback from professors at university…

PGarticle, Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights

From resistance to acceptance

2. July 2024

The decision to change your behavior based on personality assessment results is hard. Arriving at that choice requires a leader to have an open mindset, strategic self-awareness, and Hogan coaching….

PGLecture, Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights

Developing leadership skills

3. June 2024

How to Adapt Leadership Development Strategies Across Managerial Levels When organizations select a leader, they are making a multiyear investement in development. As leaders prepare to move to higher managerial…

PGLecture, Leadership, Personality, Insights

Organizational Culture – Interview with Nicolas Montagner

27. May 2024

Personality Guidance interviewed Nicolas Montagner, the CEO of Coucou&Co, a scale-up based in Sion, Switzerland. The primary goal of Coucou&Co is to offer Airbnb concierge services to chalet and mountain apartment owners to combat the issue of empty beds.

Recognizing and overcoming burnout

6. May 2024

Burnout has been a key term for years when it comes to professional – and other – stresses that affect mental health. Although the discourse on psychosomatic illnesses has become…

PGarticle, Leadership, Personality, Insights, Teams

Employee Burnout

6. May 2024

Do You Know It When You See It? A blog post by Hogan Assessments. When demands on productivity escalate while resource availability and team sizes shrink, the pressure to do…

PGLecture, Leadership, Personality, Insights

New Skillset

12. April 2024

When knowledge alone is no longer enough: The skillset of the future You earn more than 75,000 euros a year? You have studied? You work in a tech or IT…

Future Skills, Personality, Insights

Empowering The next Generation

9. April 2024

A blog post by Hogan Assessments: Empowering the Next Generation of Women Leaders. How should we approach leadership development for college students? How can we use such efforts to empower…

PGarticle, Female Leadership, Leadership, Insights

Female Leadership: cultural change, not quotas

8. April 2024

Women’s quota. How do you feel about that? Melissa Di Donato, one of the leading top female managers and head of the world’s largest open-source software company Suse, said about…

PGarticle, Female Leadership, Leadership, Insights

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The Psychology of Humility

5. March 2024

A blog post by Robert Hogan, PhD, president and founder of Hogan Assessments. Academic psychology maintains that personality should be described in terms of five dimensions—the so-called five-factor model—and that…

PGLecture, Leadership, Personality, Insights

3 ways to build team trust

6. February 2024

The research is clear: Highly effective teams drive organizational performance.1 When a highly effective team comes together to accomplish a goal, the unique skills and characteristics of each team member work…

PGLecture, Personality Assessments, Insights, Teams

Business Breakfast Zurich

8. September 2023

At our Business Breakfast in Zurich on September 8, 2023, Nicole Neubauer, CEO of metaBeratung, presented the agency ‘Personality Guidance’, which was founded in 2023, as the new Hogan distributor…

PGEvents, Insights

Interview mit Dr. Robert Hogan

15. September 2019

Nicole Neubauer, CEO metaBeratung, interviewed by Robert Hogan, Founder & President of Hogan Assessments, during a metaBeratung event 2019.

PGmeet, Insights

Flyer Business Breakfast Zurich 14th May (3)

Register for our upcoming Business Breakfast Meeting in Zurich, taking place Wednesday 14th May, themed “Why it always comes back to strategic self-awareness: In this complex, volatile world, it is essential to account for the challenges we face"!

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