The Hogan Personality Inventory
This is one of Dr. Falwell’s favorites because it integrates valuable information about our day to day behaviors with our values - what drives and motivates us toward change. An excellent quality about the Hogan is its basis in reputation - not just your input about yourself, but how others perceive you.
Things to know about The Hogan:
Informative and predictive.
Measures reputation (how other’s view you).
3 Assessments blend for a wealth of information.
Specific details regarding:
Highlights in your personality
Areas that can derail your success
Motivators and values
Variety of reports available for individuals and teams, depending on your growth focus.
Why does identity and reputation matter in assessments? Most assessments are “identity” focused - what you say about yourself and your preferences. The Hogan specifically focused on “reputation” and the predictive value that comes from what other people say about you.
Identity: “I am a fun, spontaneous individual that looks forward to starting each day with a clean slate, ready to meet whatever challenges life has to offer.”
Reputation: Individuals responding this way tend to be inattentive to details, resist supervision, ignore small process steps, no plan ahead, and rarely think through the consequences of their actions.”
Why this is predictive:
We approach our own identity with familiarity and favor. We like our ways and are usually resistant to hearing not-so-great feedback about how we make situations challenging for others. Think about it for a second. Think about a person you love and appreciate. You have excellent experience with both their highlights and the things they do that are challenging, ineffective or even maddening.
The Hogan picks up on that type of information - how other people experience you. Great parts of you, the environment you create for others, what you are like when you don’t even know you are causing difficulty in your own world and bristle when it is brought to your attention.
We can rate ourselves all day long without having critical information about how others experience us as a friend, a teammate, a leader. The Hogan provides that in how it is set up - helping you see the consistency and the high likelihood you will respond in a certain way based on test results from others like you and how people experience you.
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.