The most accurate motivation assessment you’ll ever take
Why do some activities energize you while others leave you drained? Why do you naturally excel in some areas yet struggle in others, even when using the same skills? Why do you work so well with some people, but have difficulty collaborating with others?
The answer lies in motivation.
The Motivation Code assessment is the only narrative-based, motivation-driven assessment that uncovers the hidden forces driving your actions, decisions, and performance.
Unlike personality or strengths assessments, which describe who you are and what you’re good at, MCode reveals what moves you to act, persist, and thrive, and helps you harness that insight for greater success in work, relationships, and life.
A simple Three-Step assessment
The MCode assessment guides you through a three-step process rooted in real-life experiences, not hypothetical scenarios. It takes less than 30 minutes to complete, yet delivers “scary accurate” insights that last a lifetime.
Step One
Share your stories
Your most meaningful stories hold the key to understanding what truly drives you. MCode prompts you to recall and share a few of your most fulfilling and satisfying achievements — the moments when you felt engaged, alive, and at your best.
Step Two
Answer questions
Once you’ve shared your stories, you’ll answer questions using a simple satisfaction scale, ranking your answers about how you felt, what you did, what made the experience meaningful, and why it still matters to you today on a scale of 1-10.
Step Three
Discover your MCode
Our proprietary framework combines your stories and answers with more than 60 years of scientific research and behavioral data to identify motivated patterns in your experiences and generate a personalized MCode report all about you.
The science behind the Motivation Code assessment
The Motivation Code assessment is backed by more than 60 years of scientific and empirical research using SIMA® (System for Identifying Motivated Abilities), data mining, and the insights gained from decades of research and coaching on motivation and high performance.
- Rooted in research: More than one million achievement stories from people of all walks of life and career paths have been analyzed to identify 32 Motivations and 8 Dimensions that shape human behavior.
- Proprietary pattern recognition: Our data-driven methodology identifies motivational patterns and abilities with unmatched accuracy, helping you understand why you do what you do and why it matters.
- Actual, not hypothetical: Other assessments force you to choose the “least bad” answers to abstract questions, MCode asks you about your real-life experiences and what you found satisfying about them.
The MCode assessment is more than a personality assessment
Personality tests and strengths assessments are helpful tools but a person can be using their strengths in a role that matches their personality, and still feel uninspired, unmotivated, unfulfilled, and unsatisfied — and that’s a problem!
What’s missing is motivation. The Motivation Code assessment identifies an individual’s unique MCode, which explains who they are at their best, how they’re wired for success, and what motivates them. It provides game-changing clarity that connects people to their purpose and ignites passion.
Discover what drives action and engagement
MCode reveals an individual’s core purpose and what motivates them to act and get involved, stick with it when things get tough, do their best, and achieve big goals.
Learn what makes someone tick
Motivation explains why an individual gets immersed in some activities but fails to engage in others, even when using the same skills and strengths.
Understand what makes someone come alive
MCode highlights an individual’s insatiable motivational drive — what powers their most satisfying, fulfilling work and brings out the best version of themselves.
With MCode, you don’t just know yourself, you activate your best self.
Your personalized MCode report: The key to achieving peak performance
What motivates you is different from anyone else you know.
After completing the MCode assessment, you’ll receive a personalized, relevant, actionable report that reveals what makes you YOU, explains why you do what you do, and provides some spot-on oh-that’s-why, this-makes-so-much-sense clarity.
The MCode Lite report includes:
- Your Top 5 Motivations:
Discover the drivers behind your most satisfying achievements, and how they impact your work and life, shape your competitive advantages, and support you at your best. - Your stacked ranking of 32 Motivations:
Learn what work, tasks, and environments energize you and move you into action, and what drains you and barely gets you off the couch. - Your spectrum of 8 Motivational Dimensions:
See how your Motivational ranking maps to 8 MCode Dimensions to reveal your most and least prominent drivers of satisfaction and fulfillment. - A deep dive into Dimensions:
Understand the differences between all 8 Dimensions and how your most prominent three impact your approach to work, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and growth. - Your blind spots:
Recognize and proactively avoid the situations that could become problems when you’re not at your best, especially when you’re experiencing stress, pressure, or a lack of sleep.
“As an Orchestrator, I now know the kind of projects I want to work on, the kind of people I work well with, and the kind of projects and people I need to avoid.”
Samar Owais
Email Conversion Strategist for SaaS and eCommerce Brands
“Learning from MCode how to tailor my environment to ensure that I can thrive, while also being aware of obstacles along the way, has been a game changer. I’m happier than ever and my team is more engaged and empowered as a result.”
Justin Sainton
Founder, Zao
When you opt for an MCode Premium report, you also get:
- Insights into your Motivational Flow and what prompts you to get involved, the process you employ, and the payoff you seek.
- Two interactive tools that highlight how you show up at work and interact with people who are motivated differently.
- Personalized affirmations and declarations to nurture your self-confidence and foster a positive, growth mindset.
- A custom word bank of aligned action verbs and power descriptors that describe you and what you do best.
- 10 LinkedIn enhancers to help you clearly communicate how you add value and why you are the best choice.
- Professional bio suggestions and sentence starters to highlight your unique strengths, motivations, and impact.
- Motivated pitching examples to help you pitch yourself to anyone and get faster buy-in and more yeses.
- Motivated negotiation suggestions to help you negotiate more effectively and influence the desired outcome.
Speak the language of motivation to amp up your influence and impact
Understanding motivation changes everything, especially how you communicate, collaborate, and lead. The MCode assessment introduces 8 motivational languages that transform how you connect with others — one for each MCode Dimension:
Achiever
Driven by measurable success and tangible accomplishments.
Driver
Inspired by challenges, competition, and forward momentum.
Influencer
Energized by inspiring, persuading, and making an impact.
Learner
Finds fulfillment in curiosity, mastery, and continuous growth.
Optimizer
Focused on refining, improving, and making things more efficient.
Orchestrator
Driven by coordinating, managing, and leading projects and teams.
Relator
Thrives on trust, deep connections, and strong relationships.
Visionary
Inspired by big ideas, future possibilities, and innovation.
When you speak someone’s motivational language, everything clicks into place
Every individual has a primary motivational language for interpreting and responding to the world around them. When you know and speak their motivational language, choosing just the right words and tailoring your communication to them, you create instant resonance. You capture attention, inspire action, and remove resistance.
When you speak someone’s motivational language:
- They lean in, listen with full attention, and tune out distractions.
- They feel energized, connected, and excited about the task at hand.
- They engage deeply instead of zoning out or procrastinating.
- They overcome challenges instead of procrastinating or giving up.
- They consistently deliver their best work with passion and focus.
Imagine knowing exactly how to communicate with your team, clients, or peers in a way that makes them light up, engage deeply, and perform at their best. That’s the power of the MCode assessment and our motivation-driven workplace tools.
It’s like putting on a new pair of glasses. Suddenly, you can see, focus, and filter the way you engage with others, activating your superpowers and illuminating the superpowers of those around you.
“I’ve done plenty of personality and strengths tests in the past, but finding the motivations behind what drives those traits allows me to see myself in a whole new light.”
Chris Teitzel
CEO and Founder,
Cellar Door Media and Lockr
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Try the MCode assessment today.
Taking the MCode assessment and reviewing your personalized results is a transformational experience that leads to a better, brighter, more fulfilling future and life at its best.
MCode results also equip leaders with vital insights for building stronger, more effective teams and teams with a shared understanding that helps them connect deeply, work better together, and win more often.
Choose MCode Lite or MCode Premium and discover your MCode in 30 minutes or less to gain clarity on what fuels your success and start speaking the language of motivation!