March 2007		www.hoganassessments.com



:: A Note To Our Readers
This H-newsletter brings you news about Hogan Assessment Systems and its staff, including case studies, activities in South Africa and China, and a note about the company's worldwide leadership coaching services. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please e-mail us at webmaster@hoganassessments.com.

:: HAS Helps Top Institution Find Just the Right Financial Advisors
One of the world's largest financial institutions posed a challenging problem to Hogan Assessment Systems: The institution's HR executives wanted to hire the best financial advisors - but they also wanted these new hires to excel at consultative sales. To read more and find out how this challenge was solved, click here.

:: HAS Holds Conference, Special Training in China March 1-8
Hogan Assessment Systems, a leading U.S.-based provider of personality assessments for employee selection and development, was in Shanghai March 1-8 to hold its annual international distributor conference and to conduct special training for its new partner in China, Mobley Group Pacific. To read more, click here.

:: HAS Staff to Chair Panels, Present Research at SIOP Conference April 27-29
Ten staff members of Hogan Assessment Systems will take part in a variety of panel discussions and present several research papers at the annual conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology April 27 to 29 in New York City. Hogan Assessment Systems, one of the conference sponsors, will have a booth at the conference. To read more, click here.

:: Certification Workshop To Be Held May 8-9 in Atlanta
A workshop for participants to learn to administer, interpret and implement three assessments developed by Hogan Assessment Systems is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, May 8 and 9, at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The certification workshop will provide a comprehensive tutorial on the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI); Hogan Development Survey (HDS); and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI). The workshop is approved for 13 recertification credit hours through the Human Resource Certification Institute and for 8 American Psychological Association continuing education credits. The next workshop of this type is scheduled for Aug. 28-29 in the same location. For more information or to register, click here, call (800) 756-0632, or send an e-mail to sales@hoganassessments.com.

:: Holiday Inn Managers Give High Marks to Hogan Tools
Do the assessments, reports and feedback provided by Hogan Assessment Systems make a difference to those who want to improve their leadership skills? The answer is yes, according to results of a survey of managers from Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts who took the Hogan Personality Inventory, received a Leadership Forecast series Potential Report, and then were provided in-person feedback. To read more, click here.

:: South African Distributor Benefits from Visit by HAS Consultant
Hogan Assessment Systems products and services are better known and understood in South Africa following a week-long visit earlier this year by senior consultant Greg Barnett, who was in that country to assist Hogan's South African distributor, Jopie van Rooyen & Partners, known as JvR. To read more, click here.

:: A Worldwide Team of Hogan Certified Coaches Is Available for Special Projects
Hogan Assessment Systems provides leadership coaching services to clients with high-volume needs or specific coaching problems. The Hogan coaching team is staffed by experienced coaches, all of whom provide professional services worldwide, who have built their coaching practices using the Hogan tools, and who meet stringent quality assurance criteria. All coaches have advanced degrees and many are former corporate executives. On average, these people have 25 years of coaching and leadership development experience. The coaching team members have similar backgrounds and expertise, but many have unique skills and/or backgrounds that enhance their abilities to meet the requirements of specific coaching engagements. The roster includes many multilingual coaches, and the team can deliver feedback in any of the 19 languages for which the Hogan assessments are currently available. Our coaches can deliver feedback in an initiative- or organizationally-specific manner (e.g., deliver feedback to specific teams and/or provide individual feedback based on development needs highlighted by Hogan's test results). The Hogan coaching team has been involved with leadership development initiatives in numerous Fortune 100 organizations. For more information, contact Ryan Ross, HAS senior consultant, at 1-800-756-0632 or rross@hoganassessments.com.

:: HAS Experts Quoted in National Publications
The expertise of Hogan Assessment Systems was tapped recently by editors at Sage Publications and by journalists for Forbes.com, the Houston Chronicle newspaper and Community Banker magazine. HAS President Robert Hogan was quoted in a Jan. 22 story on Forbes.com about use of personality tests. The story is titled "Surviving The Personality Test." He is also quoted in a short sidebar that is presented as a five-part slide show, titled "In Pictures: Surviving The Personality Test." To read the story on the Forbes Web site, click here. Jared Lock, director of consulting services, was quoted in the article "Retaining the Frontline" in the January 2007 issue of Community Banker magazine, a monthly publication of America's Community Bankers, an independent national trade association that represents the nation's community banks of all charter types and sizes. Robert Hogan was quoted in the article "Feeling a bit cranky today? Look on the bright side" that appeared in the Houston Chronicle on Jan. 18. The article includes Hogan's comments about new research that suggests that employees in bad moods can be creative problem-solvers. To read the story on the Houston Chronicle Web site, click here. A new book, "Foundations of Psychological Testing," published by Sage Publications, carries an endorsement on the back cover by Joyce Hogan, vice president of Hogan Assessment Systems. She states: "The psychology curriculum badly needs a modern textbook on testing, and this marvelous book fills that gap perfectly. It is up-to-date, well organized, and user-friendly, while maintaining the appropriate standards of scholarly integrity; it is the best new text in this field in a long time."

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