Hogan Personality Inventory

The Bright Side of Personality

The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) describes normal, or bright-side personality – qualities that describe how we relate to others when we are at our best. Whether your goal is to find the right hire or develop stronger leaders, assessing normal personality gives you valuable insight into how people work, how they lead, and how successful they will be.

Quick Facts

15- to 20-minute completion time
Available in more than 40 languages
Based on the Five-Factor Model
More than three million participants assessed
Validated for use in more than 1000 research studies
No invasive or intrusive items
No adverse impact
Instantaneous scoring and reporting output
Online administration

The HPI was developed in the 1980s in the context of socio-analytic theory. Within this model, getting along with and getting ahead of others are seen as the dominant themes in social life. The HPI captures key behavioral tendencies relevant to these life themes and are based on the five-factor model of personality.

The Hogan Personality Inventory is comprised of seven primary scales, six occupational scales, and 42 subscales.

Scale Name	Low scorers tend to be	High scorers tend to be
Adjustment	Open to feedback Candid and honest Moody and self-critical	Calm Steady under pressure Resistant to feedback
Ambition	Good team players Willing to let others lead Complacent	Energetic Competitive Restless and forceful
Sociability	Good at working alone Quiet Socially reactive	Outgoing Talkative Attention-seeking
Interpersonal Sensitivity	Direct and frank Willing to confront others Cold and tough	Friendly Warm Conflict averse
Prudence	Flexible Open-minded Impulsive	Organized Dependable Inflexible
Inquisitive	Practical Not easily bored Uninventive	Imaginative Quick-witted Poor implementers
Learning Approach	Hands-on learners Focused on their interests Technology averse	Interested in learning Insightful Intolerant of the less informed

Occupational Scales

Service Orientation: attentiveness and courteousness toward customers

Stress Tolerance: composure, calm under pressure

Reliability: honesty, positive organizational citizenship

Clerical Potential: self-discipline, meticulousness, and the ability to communicate clearly

Sales Potential: energy, social skills, and the ability to solve problems for customers

Managerial Potential: leadership ability, planning, and decision-making skills

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Leader Focus

Helps new leaders and first-time managers understand how their personality characteristics may influence their leadership effectiveness.

Leadership is complex and multi-dimensional. Regardless of your current or aspirational role, you are constantly making leadership impressions on those around you. For first-time leaders or managers, understanding how their personality characteristics define their leadership style can be difficult and hinder their ability to lead. Hogan’s Leader Focus Report aims to simplify and provide insight into six leadership dimensions that influence leadership style and effectiveness.

Sales Basis

Out-of-the-box solution for hiring high revenue-generating sales professionals, used for a broad range of sales jobs across industries.

Sales Basis is an out-of-the-box solution for hiring high revenue-generating sales professionals, used for a broad range of sales jobs across industries.

Teams

Designed to help team members gain an understanding of team strengths, weaknesses, and culture.

Hogan Team is designed to help team members gain a holistic, personality-based understanding of team strengths, weaknesses, and culture, and to understand how members’ personalities and motivators may support or hinder team effectiveness in light of the team’s character, business, context, and goals. The report draws on personality assessment to help teams identify and understand three internal dynamics: strengths and weaknesses, potential fracture lines, and culture and shared values.

Summary

Snapshot of interpersonal performance, organizational fit, and a primer for performance improvement and shifts in behavior.

Hogan Summary is a self-guided interpretation of individual strengths, values, and challenges. The Summary Report is a snapshot of interpersonal performance, organizational fit, and a primer for performance improvement and shifts in behavior.

Potential

Predicts how others describe a leader’s day-to-day approach to work and leadership along with behavioral and leadership implications, competency analysis, and development recommendations.

Hogan Potential identifies leadership potential by detailing inherent personality characteristics which contribute to the achievement of goals and desires. The Potential Report predicts how others describe a leader’s day-to-day approach to work and leadership along with behavioral and leadership implications, competency analysis, and development recommendations.

Leader Basis

Out-of-the-box solution that identifies a candidate’s strengths and potential areas of weakness for leadership roles.

Leader Basis is an out-of-the-box solution that identifies a candidate’s strengths and potential areas of weakness for leadership roles and provides a hiring recommendation.

Configure

Determines key attributes, qualities, and skills, to accurately evaluate potential talent in prospective and incumbent employees.

We leveraged three decades of experience and billions of data points to build Hogan Configure, the only competency solution that puts Hogan’s predictive power and scientific rigor at your fingertips. Using a simple yet robust web-based platform, Configure’s three-step process helps you determine key attributes, qualities, and skills, allowing you to accurately evaluate potential talent in prospective and incumbent employees.

Manage

Identifies strengths, as well as potential shortcomings, with tips to optimize employee performance.

Hogan Manage provides effective techniques for managing your employees based on their personalities. It identifies employees’ strengths, as well as their potential shortcomings, with tips to optimize employee performance.

EQ

Assesses emotional intelligence, the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions.

Hogan EQ assesses emotional intelligence, the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions. People skills determine success, and individuals who lack the ability to build effective relationships are destined to fail – no matter how smart or talented they are. The easy-to-understand EQ Report provides an overall score, as well as scores and feedback for six emotional competencies. The report also includes a summary of likely behaviors, score pros and cons, and discussion points.

Flash

Designed for use by a coach or user with expertise to interpret based on numbers alone.

Hogan Flash graphically displays Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory scale scores and provides raw data for HPI, HDS, and MVPI subscales. No interpretation information is provided. The report is designed for use by a coach or user with expertise to interpret based on numbers alone.

SafeSystem

Identifies safety-minded candidates, focuses and improves training, and recognizes and repairs safety-related gaps in your organizational culture.

Advances in equipment and procedures have improved worker safety, but traditional safety training programs continue to neglect the overwhelming cause of workplace catastrophes: human error.

SafeSystem uses personality assessment to evaluate workers along six safety-related competencies. Using SafeSystem, you can identify safety-minded candidates, focus and improve training, and recognize and repair safety-related gaps in your organizational culture.

Safety for Selection

Outlines candidates’ strengths and areas of concern and evaluates whether he or she is suited for employment in a safety-critical work environment.

The Safety Report outlines candidates’ strengths and areas of concern and evaluates whether he or she is suited for employment in a safety-critical work environment.

Safety For Development

Provides a graphic summary and interpretation of a candidate’s safety-related behavior and outline strengths and areas of concern for a particular work environment.

The Safety Report for Development provides a graphic summary and interpretation of a candidate’s safety-related behavior. These results outline strengths and areas of concern for a particular work environment.

The Engaging Leader

Provides a picture of your underlying motives and values and how these influence your behavior at work, which affects how engaged your team feels.

Employee engagement is the extent to which employees think, feel, and act in ways that represent high levels of commitment to their organization. Engaged employees are motivated to contribute 100% of their knowledge, skills, and abilities to help their organization succeed.

Hogan Engaging Leader provides a picture of your underlying motives and values and how these influence your behavior at work. You’ll see what your team thinks about working for you – and how engaged they feel as a result. Engagement drives performance, so the more engaged and effective your team feels, the better their performance will be. Interpretive guidelines are shown alongside each section.

Leadership Forecast Series

Provides leaders with an understanding of their strengths, challenges, and underlying motivators. Requires feedback from a certified coach/user.

The Hogan Leadership Forecast Series includes four development-focused reports. Based on Hogan’s trademark assessments, the Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory, each report offers information regarding the characteristics, competencies, and values that underlie how a leader approaches work, leadership, and interaction with others in the workplace.

Insight Series

Explores a mid-level manager’s strengths, performance risks, and values, and can be used as a feedback tool for selection or development.

The Insight Series provides organizations with scientifically validated information about an individual’s strengths, performance risks, and core values. Used as a feedback tool for selection or development, the easy-to-understand report series gives emerging and mid-level managers the self-awareness needed to perform effectively.

High Potential

Intended to help the emergent leader become more effective and the effective leader be more emergent, resulting in maximized leadership potential.

Hogan High Potential Talent Solution is development focused to equip an organization’s high-potential talent population to become the next leaders. Potential for what? Potential to build and lead teams that can consistently outperform the competition. Some people who appear to have leadership potential are often not effective leaders; conversely, many effective employees are overlooked for promotion because they do not self-promote enough to get noticed. The Hogan High Potential Model measures the three dimensions of leadership potential, highlighting individual strengths and ranked areas of actionable development. The intent is to prioritize areas where focus and attention should be targeted, resulting in maximized leadership potential.

Express

Identifies each candidate as high, moderate, or low fit for a job.

Hogan Express is an out-of-the-box solution that identifies each candidate as high, moderate, or low fit for a job. The Express Report identifies the candidate’s strengths, areas of concern, and interview style based on seven dimensions that influence occupational success within seven job categories: Managers & Executives, Professionals, Technicians & Specialists, Operations & Trades, Sales & Customer Support, Administrative & Clerical, and Service & Support.

Basis

Custom solution that describes job fit and provides a hiring recommendation, interview guide, and method for making a hiring decision.

Hogan Basis describes a candidate’s fit to the job and organization. The report provides a hiring recommendation, behavioral interview guide, and systematic method for making a hiring decision using a combination of the assessment and interview results.

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Hogan Personality Inventory

The Bright Side of Personality

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