Lucie Ilbury - How not to get derailed by your own personality

The Future Talent Learning Podcast

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How do we measure personality? What is the difference between ‘type’ and ‘trait’-based psychometric assessments? And what impact does the ‘H’ factor of personality have on you and your career?

To answer these questions, Nathalie and Ross G are speaking to Lucie Ilbury, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Head of Client Enablement at Sova Assessment. Lucie specialises in the psychology of leadership, assessment and learning and development, while Sova provides a fully customisable assessment platform which delivers evidence-based assessment via cutting-edge digital technology.

We discuss:

• What makes a psychometric assessment valid and helpful
• Why some people are manipulative, self-entitled, materialistic and exploitative
• What we mean by ‘good psychopaths’.

Episode Timestamps

• Introduction to Psychometric Assessments [00:01:15]
• Type-based vs. Trait-based Personality Models [00:08:10]
• The HEXACO Model and the 'H' Factor [00:11:05]
• Leadership Derailment and Lopsided Leadership [00:17:55]
• Organizational Culture and Personality Fit [00:16:54]
• Blended Assessment Approach [00:39:04]

Additional Information

For reference, the two models discussed are:

OCEAN = Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism

HEXACO = Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience

Note that in the HEXACO model, ‘Honesty-Humility’ is new, and neuroticism has been re-named ‘emotionality’.

For more on HEXACO, read The H Model of Personality, by Kibeom Lee and Michael C. Ashton.

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In ‘One Thing I Learned This Week’, Ross G discussed ‘Web 3’: https://www.wired.com/story/web3-paradise-crypto-arcade/

Nathalie discussed the ‘Internal Family Systems Model’: https://ifs-institute.com/resources/articles/internal-family-systems-model-outline