Interpreting Your Hogan HPI Results

The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) is a measure of one's normal, everyday personality. HPI Scores measure everyday personality characteristics that influence your ability to achieve career goals, build effective teams, and develop future leaders on my team. They reveal how you manage stress, interact with others, approach work tasks, and solve problems. As a leader, gaining insights into these traits is invaluable, as they underpin your everyday behaviors and what it means for others to interact with you.

Before you continue reading, please open your Hogan Report that was emailed to you by rachsebellshavit@helm365.co. If you have not yet completed your hogan assessment, please stop here and complete it before reading this article. If you took the assessment and have not received your results, please email me at the email above and let me know.

Scales Explained

The Hogan HPI assesses a person's fundamental personality across 7 dimensions:

1. Adjustment: This scale measures emotional stability and resilience.
2. Ambition: Ambition measures the drive for achievement, advancement, and success.
3. Sociability: This scale assesses an individual's social orientation and outgoingness.
4. Interpersonal Sensitivity: Interpersonal sensitivity measures empathy, tact, and the ability to understand and respond to the feelings and perspectives of others.
5. Prudence: Prudence measures conscientiousness, responsibility, and self-discipline.
6. Inquisitiveness: This scale assesses intellectual curiosity, creativity, and openness to new experiences.
7. Learning Approach: Learning approach measures receptivity to feedback, willingness to learn, and adaptability.

These dimensions are critical to understand because they inform how we behave across the 3 behavioral categories and thus what we live and others experience of us. Those 3 behavioral categories are:

1. Drive: Describes a person’s level of assertiveness, results-orientation, proactive or reactive tendencies, and pace. Individuals with a high drive will appear faster and more proactive than those with a lower drive style. (Informed by: adjustment & ambition)
2. Interpersonal: Describes how an individual communicates and builds relationships with others. Individuals who have a high interpersonal style are often described as outgoing, sociable, and skilled at building relationships. (Informed by: sociability & interpersonal sensitivity)
3. Intrapersonal: Intrapersonal behavioral style describes behaviors that relate to how an individual solves problems and makes decisions. Individuals with high intrapersonal behaviors tend to be curious, academic, and able to adjust quickly. (Informed by: prudence, inquisitive, and learning approach)

By spending time looking through the lens of the HPI, leaders can better understand their natural inclinations, strengths, and potential areas for development, enabling them to leverage their personality traits to drive organizational success. Whether it's fostering collaboration, inspiring innovation, or navigating change, the HPI empowers leaders to create a work environment that aligns with their values and maximizes their leadership impact.

Next Steps

• Open the Hogan report link that was sent you.
• Watch this brief video to learn how to read your HPI scores
• Start answering the HDS reflection questions in this Hogan worksheet (you can download the worksheet or add it to your personal google drive)