Leadership & Personality: Expert knowledge from metaBeratung

My Personality Journal

2. December 2025

The metaBeratung reflection book helps employees and managers apply the insights gained from the Hogan reports to their everyday work. The focus is on your personal development and the practical application of the insights gained.

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

Self-management – how to do it?

2. December 2025

In many areas, self-management is cited as one of the skills needed to be successful and happy in both your private and professional life. We got to the bottom of this and asked ourselves: what exactly does this term mean?

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture, Teams

Review: HR-Collective Night in Düsseldorf

14. November 2025

Dear HR Collective, Thank you for this wonderful evening! We were pleased to welcome the HR Collective Düsseldorf to our metaBeratung offices. It was an evening full of inspiration, honest exchanges, and genuine connections.

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaEvents, Teams

Why companies rely on executive short-term coaching

3. November 2025

In an era of rapid change and mounting pressure on managers, short-term executive coaching is emerging as a vital approach. It provides targeted support where it is needed most urgently — quickly, focused and effectively.

Female Leadership, Future Skills, Leadership, Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaArticle

20 Years of Excellence in Talent Management

16. October 2025

VIVID MAGAZIN | 02/25 The business magazine for Düsseldorf, which won the German Design Award, published an article on the 20th anniversary of metaBeratung, Düsseldorf, in its current issue on the topics of digitalization, innovation and new work.

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaArticle

Strategic Self-Awareness – Know Yourself!

7. October 2025

Many of us have experienced how self-perception and others’ perceptions can differ: we leave a meeting thinking it could have gone better – only to receive enthusiastic positive feedback. Or we prepare thoroughly for a meeting, feeling confident, and suddenly everything turns out differently than expected. But what exactly does self-awareness have to do with success?

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

Review - Business Lunch Munich

7. October 2025

Inspiration and ideas: At our exclusive Business Lunch in Munich, we engaged in in-depth discussions with our guests about the importance of Strategic Self-Awareness for successful leadership and personal development.

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaEvents, Teams

We celebrate 20 Years of metaBeratung

5. September 2025

To celebrate our anniversary, we are delighted to present exclusive congratulations and insights from our valued partners and clients.

Personality, Personality Assessments, metaArticle

Team Effectiveness and Domino Derailers

2. September 2025

The Hogan podcast "The Science of Personality" explores team dynamics – and how one individual’s stressed behavior can trigger a chain reaction.

Leadership, Personality, Personality Assessments, metaLecture, Teams

Book Review: The Culture Code

1. September 2025

We all know teams that function as if by magic—where trust reigns, ideas flow freely, and the shared mission is palpable. But how does such a culture come about? In his book "The Culture Code", Daniel Coyle provides a fascinating answer: not by chance, but through conscious behavior and clear direction.

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

Ethical Considerations in Workplace Assessments

5. August 2025

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.

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

Ethics and responsibility in leadership

5. August 2025

What exactly does responsible leadership mean? Dr. Maxim Egorov¹, interim professor of responsible leadership at Munich Business School, defines it as “the ability to influence employees in a value-oriented and sustainable manner, to promote their motivation, and to empower them to contribute to the success of their organization.” In today's world, however, many employees define “corporate success” more in terms of the meaningfulness of their work than in terms of the financial results achieved.

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

Work biases - Interview with Virgilia

5. August 2025

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

Personality, Personality Assessments, Talent Management, metaLecture, metaMeets

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Business Lunch Munich

29. July 2025

On September 17, we invite our customers to an exclusive networking event in Munich – featuring brand-new Hogan insights on strategic self-awareness.

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaEvents, Teams

Business Events (LinkedIn-Beitrag) (Deutsch) - Reminder Business Lunch Wien

Meeting Point ZPE Cologne 2025

25. July 2025

On the occasion of the annual Zukunft Personal Europe in Cologne, we are pleased to once again welcome our clients and partners at the trade fair this year.

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaMeets, Teams

Dream Team: The Inner Workings of Teamwork

30. June 2025

A Hogan blog post by Jayson Blair about the qualities of effective teamwork and why successful teams don't always get along.

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture, Teams

Book Review: Personality – A User's Guide

30. June 2025

Who am I really? This question has preoccupied people for centuries. And personality psychology now provides well-founded answers - and this is exactly where Personality - A User's Guide by Georgi Yankov and Nikita Mikhailov comes in. This book offers an in-depth but easy-to-understand introduction to the nature of personality and its influence on our daily lives.

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

Review Hogan Distributor Summit 2025

2. June 2025

The 2025 Hogan Distributor Summit was more than just an industry gathering. It offered an inspiring exchange among nearly 50 distributors from around the globe who are passionate about personality diagnostics and effective leadership.

Diversity, Insights, metaEvents

20 Years of Excellence in Talent Management

2. June 2025

VIVID MAGAZIN | 02/25 The business magazine for Düsseldorf, which won the German Design Award, published an article on the 20th anniversary of metaBeratung, Düsseldorf, in its current issue on the topics of digitalization, innovation and new work.

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaArticle

We celebrate 20 Years of metaBeratung

20. May 2025

To celebrate our anniversary, we are delighted to present exclusive congratulations and insights from our valued partners and clients.

Personality, Personality Assessments, metaArticle

Personality & Resilience: The Foundation of Inner Strength

6. May 2025

Lily Rose Golebiowski, M. Sc. in Psychology, on personality traits as inner resources that promote resilience, using Teresa Enke's story as an example.

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaArticle

Leadership in MalaysiaA Cultural and Psychological Perspective

31. March 2025

A Hogan blog post from the series ‘The Science of Personality’ about

Leadership, Personality, Personality Assessments, metaLecture

Cultural Intelligenz (CQ)

31. March 2025

The art of avoiding gaffes and the significance of CQ in selection, development and team building, as discussed by Julia Reimann.

Future Skills, Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaArticle

Emotional Intelligence - the magic key to success

10. March 2025

In today's workplace, emotional intelligence (EI) is becoming increasingly important. Recent studies show that 71% of employers rate their employees' emotional intelligence higher than their IQ, and as many as 61% of managers worldwide believe that EI will be an essential skill in the coming years.

Future Skills, Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaArticle

Measuring IQ and EQ

10. March 2025

A Hogan blog post from the series ‘The Science of Personality’ about the definition, measurement, and impact of IQ and EQ. Can we improve IQ or EQ? Read on to find out.

Future Skills, Leadership, Personality, Personality Assessments, metaLecture

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Review Business Lunch Vienna

13. February 2025

20 years Hogan distributor! On March 26, 2025, we celebrated with our customers from Austria and our special guest Dr. Robert Hogan.

Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaEvents, Teams

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Organizational Resilience

3. February 2025

Nicole Neubauer on organisational resilience and how a person's resilience can be seen in the results of the Hogan Assessments.

Personality, Personality Assessments, metaArticle

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Learning from Failure

3. February 2025

A Hogan blog post from the series ‘The Science of Personality’ about learning from failure.

Personality, Personality Assessments, metaLecture

Out of Comfort Zone

3. February 2025

Interview with Deniz Kayadelen about resilience, leaving the comfort zone, Hogan Assessments and new records.

Personality, Insights, metaMeets

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The 2024 Derailers of the Year

10. January 2025

The year 2024 seemed to go by in the blink of an eye, yet it was full of newsworthy people ad events that relate to the Hogan Development Survey (HDS). That’s right – we’ve announced our 2024 derailers of the year.

Personality, Personality Assessments, metaLecture

The 5 Most Important Steps in Employee Onboarding

3. December 2024

A Hogan blog post from the article series “New Year, New Hire".

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

Onboarding - Interview with Michael Schmeja

3. December 2024

We asked Michael Schmeja, coach at metaBeratung, about onboarding coaching, the first 100 days on board a company and how Hogan Assessments can be incorporated into the 4-phase plan.

Leadership, Personality Assessments, Talent Management, metaMeets

Interview with Garrett Shaffer

29. November 2024

Nicole Neubauer, CEO metaBeratung, in an interview with Garrett Shaffer, Director Europe, Hogan Assessments, October 2024.

Insights, metaMeets

Success in Dubai: THE MERIT Awards 2024

28. November 2024

We are proud of our award at THE MERIT Summit & Awards 2024 in Dubai.

Future Skills, Leadership, metaEvents

Why Equity Matters

5. November 2024

Read the latest Hogan Blog article to learn why, despite the recent SHRM announcement, equity remains central to successful diversity and inclusion efforts.

Diversity, Personality, Personality Assessments, metaLecture

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Business Lunch Review

18. October 2024

New leadership: Confident leadership, strong team! Under this motto, we invited our customers to an exclusive business lunch in Düsseldorf on October 9, 2024.

Leadership, metaEvents

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.

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaArticle

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.

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

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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.

Leadership, Insights, metaLecture, 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.

Insights, metaLecture, Teams

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…

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaArticle

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….

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture

Agile Leader Skills

4. June 2024

The most important leadership skills to address the challenges of today? Already back in 2016, the team at metaBeratung discussed these most important skills for managers and how these could…

Leadership, Personality, Talent Management, Insights, metaArticle

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…

Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaLecture

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…

Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaArticle, 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…

Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaLecture

Business lunch Vienna

26. April 2024

NEW LEADERSHIP: SOVEREIGN LEADERSHIP, STRONG TEAM! On 25 April 2024, we hosted an exclusive business lunch for our Austrian customers at the renowned Café Landtmann in the heart of Vienna….

Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaEvents, Teams

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, metaArticle

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…

Female Leadership, Leadership, Insights, metaLecture

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…

Female Leadership, Leadership, Insights, metaArticle

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HOGAN REFRESHER BURNOUT – May 29, 2024

8. April 2024

On May 29th we offer our online event Hogan Refresher Special on the topic of Burnout. Nicole Neubauer, CEO of metaBeratung, and Susanne Nannsen, psychologist and trainer at metaBeratung, will…

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaEvents

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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…

Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaLecture

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…

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaLecture, Teams

Success factor #1: Trust

6. February 2024

In recent years, the world has undergone rapid change due to digitalization. This has affected both, our personal communication and the economy. However, we have yet to fully adapt our…

Personality, Insights, metaArticle, Teams

How to Resign: Lessons from Christine Lambrecht and Jacinda Ardern

24. January 2024

How a person resigns from an important job says a lot about their personality. While personality is stable over time, some key moments put a bright spotlight on it. We…

Female Leadership, Personality, Insights, metaArticle

Hogan Refresher Special Narcissism – March 15, 2024

22. January 2024

DATE FULLY BOOKED! On March 15th we offer our online event Hogan Refresher Special on the topic of narcissism. Nicole Neubauer, CEO of metaBeratung, and Susanne Nannsen, psychologist and trainer…

Personality, Insights, metaEvents, metaMeets

Kyle Cermak on the importance of the partnership with Metaberatung

19. September 2023

We spoke with Kyle Cermak, Regional Director Europe – Hogan Assessments, about the importance of the partnership between Hogan Assessments and metaBeratung for the German market at our Business Breakfast…

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaMeets

Business Sundowner Cologne

12. September 2023

On the occasion of this year’s Zukunft Personal Europe in Cologne, Nicole Neubauer, CEO of metaBeratung, welcomed selected HR experts from various industries to this exclusive event format. We were…

Personality Assessments, Insights, metaEvents, 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…

Diversity, Insights, metaEvents

Personality Matters

1. June 2023

TOP BUSINESS CONSULTANTS | DISCOVER GERMANY, SWITZERLAND & AUSTRIA | 06/23 Talent is personality at the right place – this is how success stories start. Following their credo ‘personality matters’,…

Personality, Personality Assessments, Insights, metaArticle

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.

Insights, metaMeets