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Hogan Assessments
At Workplace Wizards, we recognise the transformative power of understanding personality traits for enhancing organisational success. We proudly offer the Hogan Assessment suite, an internationally acclaimed toolset designed to unlock potential and provide deep insights into personality traits that impact workplace dynamics and individual performance.
What is a Hogan Assessment?
The Hogan Assessment suite comprises three specialised components:
- Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI): Evaluates everyday interpersonal style.
- Hogan Development Survey (HDS): Identifies potential performance risks and derailers.
- Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI): Outlines core values and motivators of individuals.
These tools are critical across a variety of organisational activities:
- Recruitment: Enhance your hiring process by understanding the underlying personality traits of candidates to predict job performance.
- Leadership Development: Equip leaders with the self-awareness needed to manage their behaviours and improve interactions with teams.
- Team Dynamics: Analyse team compositions to foster better collaboration and understanding among members.
- Career Development: Empower employees to recognise and leverage their strengths and develop areas crucial for their career paths.
- Succession Planning: Identify and prepare future leaders within your organisation by understanding their potential and readiness for higher responsibilities.
- Organisational Alignment: Assess how well individuals’ values and personalities align with your company’s strategic goals and overall work environment.
- Conflict Resolution: Provide insights into personality traits that may lead to conflicts and strategies for managing and resolving these effectively.
- Performance Improvement: Identify specific areas where individuals might struggle and offer data-driven guidance to enhance their professional performance.
- Employee Retention: Understand what motivates and satisfies your employees, leading to tailored strategies that increase job satisfaction and loyalty.
- Change Management: Assess how different personalities perceive and react to change, helping you to tailor communication and change strategies.
Types of Hogan Assessments We Offer
Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)
HPI looks at day‑to‑day strengths: how you work when things are going fine. It measures traits linked to job fit, reliability and how you collaborate. For hiring, HPI helps you spot people who match the behavioural demands of the role. For development, it gives clear feedback on strengths to leverage and gaps to close. If you want consistent performance and a healthy team culture, start here.
Hogan Development Survey (HDS)
HDS identifies derailers: behaviours that can surface under pressure and quietly reduce performance. Think perfectionism that slows delivery or boldness that becomes risk‑taking. In hiring, HDS flags potential risks before they show up on the job. In leadership development, it provides a practical roadmap to manage triggers and build more mature self‑management. Use HDS when the cost of a poor hire or a misfiring leader is high.
Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI)
MVPI maps what motivates people and the environments where they thrive. It’s valuable for aligning personal drivers with team norms and company values. In selection, it helps you choose candidates who will stay engaged for the reasons your culture actually rewards. In development, it supports career planning and succession conversations grounded in what matters to the person. Use MVPI to reduce turnover and strengthen cultural fit.
Case Study: Recruitment
A client tasked Workplace Wizards with conducting Hogan Assessments for shortlisted candidates for a senior management role to ensure the new hire would complement the existing leadership team, focusing on a strong cultural fit and the ability to effectively implement strategic initiatives. The assessment evaluated not only the candidates’ competencies but also how well they would integrate into the team. The successful candidate demonstrated a robust ability to implement strategies, aligning perfectly with the CEO’s vision and complementing the strategic strengths of the existing team.
The Hogan Assessment aided in:
- Team Composition Analysis: Provided a detailed understanding of the existing leadership team’s strengths, challenges, and derailers.
- Candidate Matching: Assessed how well each candidate’s profile fit the team dynamics, ensuring alignment with the team’s culture and working style.
Benefits of Hogan Assessments for Organisations
Hogan assessments give you practical data on personality, risk and motivation. You use that data to make better hiring decisions, target leadership development and shape culture with intent.
- Higher quality hires. Screen for role fit and behavioural strengths linked to performance so you reduce mis‑hires and speed up ramp time.
- Lower turnover. Align values and motivators with the work and team environment. People who fit tend to stay and contribute.
- More effective leaders. Identify derailers early and coach leaders to manage pressure without harming results or morale.
- Stronger culture. Use MVPI insights to hire and promote people who reinforce the behaviours you want to scale.
- Clearer development plans. Translate scores into focused actions. Less one‑size‑fits‑all training, more targeted coaching.
- Defensible decisions. Structured, research‑based tools help you explain why a candidate or development path is recommended.
Hogan tools are built on large occupational datasets with strong validation and job‑performance links. Organisations use them to predict workplace behaviours that matter: dependability, safety, service, sales and leadership potential. The result is fewer surprises and more predictable outcomes.
If you want a straight answer on which Hogan assessment types fit your roles and goals, talk to us. We’ll map HPI, HDS and MVPI to your jobs, your culture and the business results you need.
What is a Hogan Assessment?
The Hogan Assessment suite comprises three specialised components:
- Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI): Evaluates everyday interpersonal style.
- Hogan Development Survey (HDS): Identifies potential performance risks and derailers.
- Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI): Outlines core values and motivators of individuals.
Our Approach
Our accredited Hogan Consultants deliver comprehensive interpretations of assessment reports and one-on-one consultations to discuss results and next steps. Reports are tailored to the specific needs of the hiring manager for recruitment, the manager for internal planning, or the employee for professional development. Each report includes an analysis of strengths, potential watch-out areas, and behavioural patterns, providing insights into natural behaviours and motivations. Contact Workplace Wizards today to learn how our Hogan Assessment services can help optimise your organisational effectiveness and develop your teams to their fullest potential.
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