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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.

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We celebrate 20 Years of metaBeratung

10. January 2025

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

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The 5 Most Important Steps in Employee Onboarding

3. December 2024

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

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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.

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Interview with Garrett Shaffer

29. November 2024

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

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Success in Dubai: THE MERIT Awards 2024

28. November 2024

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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….

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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….

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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…

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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
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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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
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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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’,…

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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.

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