The Dark-side

Hogan Development Survey

The Hogan Development Survey (HDS) identifies personality-based performance and derailment risks of interpersonal behaviour. These behavioural tendencies negatively impact an individual’s leadership style, actions and ability to maintain interpersonal relationships. If these tendencies are recognised, they can be managed and compensated for with development and coaching.

The HDS concerns characteristics not covered by the Five-Factor Model. Under normal circumstances, the elevated scores on the HDS scales may actually be strengths. However, when an individual is tired, pressured, bored, or otherwise distracted, these risk factors may impede effectiveness and derail success in careers, relationships, education, and life.

Whether you are implementing an organisational assessment process or enhancing your executives’ development, the HDS can help you identify the behavioural tendencies that can undermine otherwise successful performance.

Uses

Coaching and Development.
High-level position selection.
Team functioning.
Selection for safety sensitive jobs.

Key Features

Identifies problematic aspects of behaviour that are hard to detect during an interview.
Multiple language on-line test items and instant report output with 24hr availability.
Normed on more than 10,000 working adults globally.
No invasive question items, no adverse impact, validated in over 100 organisations on working adults.
15- to 20-minute completion time.

Key Benefits

Provides insight on risks of over-using skills that could lead to career derailment.
Flexible implementation across international boundaries with various report options.
A tool that can be applied tactically and strategically across an organisation for all levels.
A unique, trusted and reliable tool, known for scientific rigour.

HDS Scales

The HDS has 11 primary scales. Data is presented in terms of risk ranges, where scores indicate the level of negative risk relative to the wider population.

Scale Name	Low Scores tend to appear	High Scores tend to appear
Excitable	to lack passion to lack a sense of urgency	easily annoyed emotionally volatile
Sceptical	naive gullible	mistrustful cynical
Cautious	overly confident to make risky decisions	too conservative risk averse
Reserved	to avoid conflict too sensitive	aloof and remote indifferent to others' feelings
Leisurely	unengaged self-absorbed	uncooperative stubborn
Bold	unduly modest self-doubting	arrogant entitled and self-promoting
Mischievous	over controlled inflexible	charming and fun careless about commitments
Colourful	repressed apathetic	dramatic noisy
Imaginative	too tactical to lack vision	impractical eccentric
Diligent	careless about details easily distracted	perfectionistic micromanaging
Dutiful	possibly insubordinate too independent	respectful and deferential eager to please

HDS Risk Illustration

HDS Assessment