The Hogan Assessment
Using the Hogan Assessment with your Executive Coaching
“Only Hogan examines personality from every angle. By measuring the bright side, dark side, and inside of personality, we’re able to achieve the highest level of predictive validity in the industry.
This is a personality test that is discoverable by answering questions of how you may go about different situations. As you do, it is able to predict how you are viewed within the workplace. It is a tool that may be used by HR to reliably predict if someone would do well in a certain position and also as a developmental tool as to how someone is performing in a role.
It’s comprised of three sections: (per the graph above)
Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) - measure of normal personality and includes a measure of your Adjustment, Ambition, Sociability, interpersonal Sensitivity, Prudence, Inquisitive and Learning Approach.
Hogan Development Survey (HDS) - designed to measure potential career-derailing tendencies that are behavioral patterns that may impede relationships, hinder productivity, or limit overall career potential.
Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) - a measure to overstand the motivational factors that are important for work and life satisfaction.
Per the Hogan FAQ page: The HPI and HDS are normed on samples of over 100,000 working adults. The MVPI is normed on a sample of over 65,000 working adults.
Once we have the results and I have reviewed the results with you, we then work together to help minimize the derailers that may show up in moments of stress and lean on the strengths of other areas in order to advance in your career - or show up in a way that is in line with how you want to be viewed.
That’s the official Hogan language. Now here’s the language how I use it and what you can expect.
I am certified in the Hogan Assessment. As are many others - but how I approach delivering this assessment is in a very systematic and wholistic way. I’m looking at diving into patterns that tell me a story.
By looking at the assessment for a wholistic place vs. just individual behaviors we are able to jumpstart our coaching so quickly because there is no place to hide. I can see from the get go - what you are hiding and how it’s holding you back, in order to focus on your strengths.
I’ve sat on enough Hogan calls where the facilitator goes line item by line item - helping you to understand each “area” almost the same as opening up a dictionary.
I’m not doing that. I’m taking each piece of the story and weaving them together with other pieces in order to tell the whole story.
A story of how you are perceived.
So that you can start doing the work of actually changing those perceptions - first by awareness of the patterns that you put out into the world and then by starting to slowly put the brakes on the behaviors that aren’t helping you. And for really sticky emotions, using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to target the issues on a subconscious basis that are holding you back.
With these two techniques together, along with traditional Leadership Coaching with me - a PCC certified coach with the ICF, to then make resonate decisions that sit with your values - not just what your head or you “think” you should do because that’s how it’s always been done, in order to make drastic changes not only as a leader but in your life in order to take on the two areas that will make the greatest difference in your effectiveness as a leader: self-accountability and self-awareness.
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