The Hogan Judgement assessment helps leaders understand how they make decisions and correct judgement-related mistakes. Because real world decision-making is fast, biased, and often subconscious, the Hogan Judgement model shines a light on the cognitive and personality factors that shape a person’s choices, reactions, and learning style. By combining cognitive ability with bright and dark-side personality tendencies and core values, Hogan Judgement provides a comprehensive view of decision-making.

What Hogan Judgement Measures

Hogan Judgement brings together three critical components that influence decision-making:

• Information Processing: How individuals absorb, interpret, and work with verbal and numerical information. This reveals the thinking style behind their decisions. Whether they lean toward a deliberate, qualitative, quantitative, or a blend of approach to processing information.
• Decision-Making Approach: How personality biases shape our pre-decision biases. This includes whether someone is more reward-seeking or threat-avoidant, more tactical or strategic, more data-driven or more intuitive. Understanding these tendencies helps predict which decisions leaders are likely to make when approaching problems.
• Reactions to Feedback (Coachability): How someone responds after a decision, especially after receiving negative feedback. Do they become defensive or stay cool-headed, deny or accept feedback, superficially or genuinely engage with feedback? This dimension is essential for long-term growth.

Why Organisations Use Hogan Judgement

• Identify development opportunities that traditional assessments overlook, especially in complex roles that require good judgement.
• Improve decision quality across teams, reduce costly errors and enhance strategic clarity.
• Support coaching and leadership development with targeted insights into how leaders learn, decide, and adapt.

Key Features

• First assessment to integrate cognitive ability, bright-side personality, dark-side personality, and values.
• Timed measures of verbal and numerical reasoning paired with non‑cognitive scales for a complete decision-making profile.
• 30-minute completion time with both timed and untimed components.
• Certification available via complimentary webinar.
• Individual results are compared to a global norm
• The assessment and report are available in multiple languages

Report Outputs

The report provides norm-referenced percentiles with practical interpretations related to information-processing style, decision-making approach, feedback reactions, and openness to feedback and coaching.