According to Geoff Trickey, Managing Director of PCL Ltd, current affairs and history demonstrate both bright and dark sides to personality. The bright sides are the “polished, social aspects” of our performance, the dark sides are the “raw social performance” that under pressure can be over used and over relied upon. » Read more: The 11 Aspects of Leadership Failure – “The Dark Sides of Personality”
At Zircon we believe that understanding personality is vital to assessing and developing Talent and we use a number of personality questionnaires in order to achieve this. In a recent blog (“Zircon are bringing in a Strengths Tool to complement our Talent Model”) we reviewed how the personality psychometrics we use at Zircon fit with our model of Talent. One tool we considered was the HDS, which focuses primarily upon ‘dark sides’ that occur as a result of overused strengths. » Read more: Changes to the HDS Scale Names
Mood & Creativity – Surrey University Lecturer Paul Sowden
It was my first time at a BPS Wessex event and this particular one was held at Surrey University on the evening of 29th September 2011. There were around 100 Psychologists (Clinical, Counselling, Developmental and Occupational) in attendance, ranging from PhD students and Chartered Psychologists practicing in the market, to academic psychologists sharing their knowledge and research. » Read more: Zircon at the BPS – Wessex Conference.
Increasingly our Zircon Directors Dr Amanda Potter and Julie Lee are being asked by our clients to provide them with experienced coaches for the executive and senior managers. Our clients are also asking for a clearly defined programme of coaching over 3 or 6 months with review points along the way. The objective is the create leaders who are self aware and develop their » Read more: The Zircon 6 Month Coaching Model
According to Geoff Trickey, Managing Director of PCL Ltd, current affairs and history demonstrate both bright and dark sides to personality. The bright sides are the “polished, social aspects” of our performance, the dark sides are the “raw social performance” that under pressure can be over used and over relied upon. » Read more: The 11 Aspects of Leadership Failure – the “Dark Sides of Personality”
Adrian Furnham, a Professor of Psychology at UCL presented an interesting speech on leadership derailment at the ABP Conference this year. He captivated the audience whilst explaining why leaders derail at work and provided a though-provoking question… do successful individuals become narcissists or do narcissists become successful?
He stressed that the failed business leader is a paradox because the characteristics that help you on your way up can derail you at the end. “This is a common problem amongst many leaders who have demonstrated strengths which Belbin refers to as allowable weaknesses.” Adrian enlightened listeners with research findings showing genders derailling in a different way, where successful males have a tendency towards psychopathology and narcissism and females towards avoidance and hysteria. » Read more: Challenge of Leadership
Rather than focusing only on leadership talents, research has also examined leadership failure and the reasons why leaders so frequently self destruct. Hogan states that this is due to a prevelance of the “dark side aspects of personality”. These darks sides are overused strengths under conditions of stress and pressure. The Hogan development Survey (HDS) measures 11 dispositions that are generally desirable, but flip under pressure if not managed well under pressure. For example, Confidence builds to Arrogance, and Diligence builds to Perfectionism under pressure. » Read more: The Pros and Cons of Measuring the Dark Side of Personality
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