HiPOTENTIAL

A Human Capital Management company concerned with quality at all levels
We are organizational developers with extensive experience and expertise in the selection and development of managers, teams and organisations. Together, we have over 30 years of experience working within the field.

We select and quality check the most suitable candidates for positions at various levels, as well as develop managers and teams to become the best version of themselves. We are known for having a strong focus on quality, scientific methods and the use of recognized tests and instruments for business.

We collaborate with several other serious consulting companies and can take on both small and large assignments.

HiPOTENTIAL

A Human Capital Management company concerned with quality at all levels

We are organizational developers with extensive experience and expertise in the selection and development of managers, teams and organisations.


We select and quality check the most suitable candidates for positions at various levels, as well as develop managers and teams to become the best version of themselves. We are known for having a strong focus on quality, scientific methods and the use of recognized tests and instruments for business. We are certified in a number of psychological tests for working life, including as many as five different DNV certified Big 5 personality tests.


We collaborate with several other serious consulting companies and can take on both small and large assignments.


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“I have had the pleasure of working with Margrethe on several occasions over the last years. She is a capacity on psychometric testing, but most important a true professional. Highly competent, precise, friendly and effective. I look forward to my next opportunity to work with her and HIPOTENTIAL.” 


Tom Solberg
Chief of Staff
Höegh LNG
"Margrethe was my course leader when Iwas certified in a personality indicator. She has a wealth of knowledge about different personality models and how they can be used for personal development and the development of working communities. In addition, she has the ability to make people feel comfortable around her so that courses, seminars and conversations with Margrethe have always been a positive and educational experience."

Knut Mørken
Professor
University of Oslo
“I have had the pleasure of working with Margrethe on several occasions over the last years. She is a capacity on psychometric testing, but most important a true professional. Highly competent, precise, friendly and effective. I look forward to my next opportunity to work with her and HIPOTENTIAL.” 
Tom Solberg
Chief of Staff
Höegh LNG
"We have received very good assistance from Margrethe in connection with various HR-related projects, including conflict resolution in teams and individual coaching. Margrethe is thorough and good at communicating with and challenging different managers and employees. She is skilled in using tests for working life and has always delivered good quality in her work for us."
Lasse Lund
HR Director
Department of Energy Engineering (IFE)

"Margrethe was my course leader when Iwas certified in a personality indicator. She has a wealth of knowledge about different personality models and how they can be used for personal development and the development of working communities. In addition, she has the ability to make people feel comfortable around her so that courses, seminars and conversations with Margrethe have always been a positive and educational experience."
Knut Mørken
Professor
University of Oslo
“I know Margrethe through that
she has delivered final candidate assessments to me several times.
She is service-minded, good at follow-up and her work hasalways been professionalcarried out.”


Gry Skjønhaug

“I know Margrethe through that
she has delivered final candidate assessments to me several times.
She is service-minded, good at follow-up and her work hasalways been professionalcarried out.”
Gry Skjønhaug
HR Director
Norgesbuss

I have known Margrethe Hillesland since 2006 when she led the course that led to my certification in Hogan's product suite HAS (HDS, MVPI, and HPI). She has also trained me in the use of the intelligence test Matrigma.

We have had regular contact, especially regarding professional questions related to the use of such tests, their utility, and interpretation/errors. Margrete is a very competent advisor in psychometrics. She has been my professional oracle and has always provided solid and well-founded answers to the questions I have posed over the years (and there are quite a few). She goes to great lengths to find answers, takes the time to help, and documents well. I have always appreciated her objectivity; there is never speculation, supernatural beliefs, or wishful thinking in her responses.

She is positive, cheerful, funny, and customer-oriented, and always takes the time to help when I ask.

I recommend anyone with questions related to the use and application of psychological tests to contact Margrethe.


Stig-Rune Reese

Managing Partner

A`HEAD Executive



"I have known Margrethe Hillesland since 2005 when she led the course that led to my certification in Hogan's product suite HAS (HDS, MVPI and HPI). She has also trained me in the use of the Matrigma intelligence test.
We have had regular contact, especially in connection with professional questions concerning the use of such tests, their usefulness and interpretation/sources of error.
Margrete is a highly competent adviser in psychometrics. She has been my professional oracle and has always delivered solid and well-reasoned answers to questions I have asked over the years (and there are quite a few). She goes to great lengths to find answers, takes her time and documents well. I have always appreciated her matter-of-factness, there is never opinion, supernaturalism or wishful thinking in her answers.
She is positive, cheerful, funny and customer-oriented, and always takes the time to help when I ask.
I recommend that anyone who has questions related to the use and application of psychological tests contact Margrethe."
Stig-Rune Reese
Managing Partner
A`HEAD Executive
"In connection with further development of our management team in the department, we have used Margrethe for both individual coaching and team workshops based on LIFO. Margrethe is good at understanding issues, reading others and provides good guidance and follow-up. She is a pleasant person and is recommended if you want to develop yourself and the team you work in".

Helen Bjerke Olafsen
Head of Trade & Operations
United European Car Carrier (UECC)
"Margrethe has delivered final candidate assessments and leadership development to the faculty on several occasionsgives.Her deliveries were always carried out professionally and the feedback from the candidates was positive".



Bjorn Hol
Former Faculty Director,Faculty of Medicine
University of Oslo

"In connection with further development of our management team in the department, we have used Margrethe for both individual coaching and team workshops based on LIFO. Margrethe is good at understanding issues, reading others and provides good guidance and follow-up. She is a pleasant person and is recommended if you want to develop yourself and the team you work in".
Helen Bjerke Olafsen
Head of Trade & Operations
United European Car Carrier (UECC)
"Margrethe has delivered final candidate assessments and leadership development to the faculty on several occasionsgives.Her deliveries were always carried out professionally and the feedback from the candidates was positive".
Bjorn Hol
Former Faculty Director
Faculty of Medicine
University of Oslo

Collaboration partners

Our methods

HiPOTENTIAL is concerned with quality and qualified expertise at all levels and offers some of the market's best methods to help you select and develop the most suitable candidates for your company's needs. Below is an overview of globally recognized tests and instruments we are certified in, how many are DNV approved. The tests are owned by occupational psychology professionalstest development companies.

However, it does not help much that the tests and instruments are good, if the consultants do not know them well enough and interpret and use the results incorrectly. Unfortunately, it happens a little too often.

Managing director Margrethe Hillesland, and senior consultant Maria Wigenstad Myhre are experts in the use of psychometric tests and instruments and have tested customers and candidates for many years for use in Recruitment, Assessment Center, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Team Building, Coaching, Validation Studies and Cultural and working life initiatives. They have also for many years certified and trained others in the use of a number of tests and instruments.

Normal personality, Big 5


There are many tests on the market that try to measure our personality. It is not an easy task, and some manage it better than others. We experience that Hogan's five-factor model (Big five) test, Hogan's Personality Inventory (HPI), is one of those who manage this best. This ties in with Hogan's more than four decades of validated research on the impact of personality on organizational success and which personality traits promote success in various roles.

Read more about HPI

The dark side of the personality


In many cases, it is not enough to test our normal personality, often known as Big-5 personality traits. What destroys us in working life is usually the darker side of our personality, our areas of development. These most often emerge under stress and pressure, and in today's hectic working life many experience this on a daily basis.


Often there can be things that are normally our strength but which under stress are used too much and too extreme. For example, a self-confident person who becomes arrogant, takes too many chances and overruns others. Someone who is good at mediating between others is afraid to take sides and shy away from conflict. Someone who is good at details loses the overview and becomes a perfectionist. Someone who normally has a healthy skepticism becomes critical of other people's proposals, mistrustful and perceived as negative.

Read more about HDS here →

Inside the personality

Hogan's Motivation, Value and Preference Indicator (MVPI) measures your motivation and preferences - What do you like best? What drives you? What brings out the glow and energy in you?MVPIhas good reports for both recruitment and development purposes. Testen will be able to provide you with valuable information about which role, working environment, structure, framework, working style and communication style candidates will be most comfortable with. The test is also very good at giving managers an insight into how their values and preferences can unconsciously influence their leadership style and what they reward.
Read more about MVPI here →

Many of the tests
we useis
DNV GL certified

Why is it so important to measure intelligence?


What a candidate scores on an analytical test cannot alone predict whether he/she will be successful, but it shows who will have the best potential for success in many different roles and contexts. For the simple reason that smart people make fewer mistakes and learn faster. In today's society, where change is happening faster than ever before, high demands are placed on learning and making quick decisions. We prefer one of the world's most used and recognized tests, Raven's Progressive Matrices. It is a figurative test that measures a person's problem-solving and reasoning capacity and the ability to see logical connections. It is this type of test that is known to best measure general ability level (G-factor).

In development processes, we use, among other things, additions:


Target and development plans for individuals and teams, the well-known Talent/estimation matrix, coaching methodology inspired by the popular LØFT tradition, effective Trust cards from the Bader Group, as well as good cases and group exercises.

In development processes, we recommend, among other things, additions:

Target and development plans for individuals and teams, the well-known Talent/estimation matrix, coaching methodology inspired by the popular LØFT tradition, effective Trust cards from the Bader Group, as well as good cases and group exercises.
Why is it so important to measure intelligence?

What you score on an analytical test cannot alone predict whether a manager will be successful, but it shows who will be able to have the best potential for success in many different roles and contexts. For the simple reason that smart people make fewer mistakes and learn faster. In today's society, where change is happening faster than ever before, there are even higher demands for learning and making quick decisions.
We prefer one of the world's most used and recognized tests, Raven's Progressive Matrices. It is a figurative test that measures a person's problem-solving and reasoning capacity and the ability to see logical connections. It is this type of test that is known to best measure general ability level (G-factor).

Psychometric tests and instruments we are certified in


Many of the tests
we useis
DNV GL certified

Many of the tests
we useis
DNV GL certified
Why is it so important to measure intelligence?

What you score on an analytical test cannot alone predict whether a manager will be successful, but it shows who will have the best potential for success in many different roles and contexts. For the simple reason that smart people make fewer mistakes and learn faster. In today's society, where change is happening faster than ever before, there are even higher demands for learning and making quick decisions. We prefer the DNV-approved Matrigma test from Assessio, which measures a person's problem-solving and reasoning capacity and the ability to see logical connections.
In development processes, we also use:

Target and development plans for individuals and teams, the well-known Talent/estimate matrix, coaching methodology inspired by the popular LØFT tradition, effective Trust cards from the Bader Group, as well as cases and group exercises.

Contact

Get in touch to discuss how we can assist you

with your organization's needs



Hypopotential

Fjordalléen 16

Aker Brygge

0250 Oslo

Norway


Phone: 930 35 411

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