My Hogan Journey : When Low Scores Become Superpowers

A friend told me Hogan was the most robust personality assessment in the market. I took his word for it and signed up for the certification. That is how I came to read my own report for the first time, while I was still preparing to read other people’s reports.

The timing was transitional. I had stepped away from twenty years of corporate life and was working out my next phase. The report was useful in that in-between stretch. It gave me a clearer sense of what helps me and what doesn’t, if I was going to build a profession differently. Some of it I read with an aha!. Some of it with an oh, is it? No wonder! The outside-in lens helped me see what was actually important to me, and over time I learned to respect those preferences rather than question them.

For a while after that, I just used it. With myself and with clients. That is what made the Advanced Interpretation Certification a complete gamechanger, when I got to it. It changed the way I read the report. Everything pulled into one picture; at an elevation I had not expected. And I came away with a new order of respect for it. I have come to trust the science underneath these reports completely, from my own experience of it.

What anchors all of this is what I see in my own scales. I had always counted my perceptiveness as an asset. I also understood how it can make things harder, for me and for the people around me. I keep a bit of awareness on it now, which is a good check-in for staying balanced. Then, there is my low Adjustment and low Science, which are the parts I am most grateful for. I have come to call them my superpowers. In the right context, they let my intuition do its best work.

Over the years, the reflecting has not stopped. I still take my report out every now and then, when I want to recalibrate how I am working and what might support me. Going back to it on purpose has been an absolute goldmine. I keep working on myself through it, the same way in which I sit with clients, working on theirs.

My Hogan report is not a verdict. It is a conversation I keep having with myself.