Motivation Code FAQs
Your MCode assessment questions answered
We’ve collected the questions asked most often about the Motivation Code assessment, identifying a person’s unique MCode, and the role motivation plays in work and life. And yes, we’ve also thrown in a few questions we think you should be asking when choosing a personality assessment tool.
Check out our FAQs below and if you don’t find an answer to your question, reach out. We’re happy to help.
FAQs
Purchase an MCode Lite report for $19 or an MCode Premium report for $79. Upon purchase, you’ll be directed to your own personal MCode dashboard, where you’ll find instructions that walk you step-by-step through the process of taking the Motivation Code assessment. Whether you purchase MCode Lite or MCode Premium, the assessment experience is exactly the same.
The difference between MCode Lite and MCode Premium is what’s included in the personalized report you receive after taking the assessment.
Both the Lite and Premium options include the powerful motivational insights MCode is famous for — a deep dive into your Top 5 Motivations, your stacked ranking of all 32 Motivations, your Motivational Dimensions from strongest to weakest, and your motivational blind spots.
MCode Premium expands on the core MCode insights to provide additional tools for practical application, including: personalized affirmations and declarations, a word bank of aligned action verbs and power descriptors, LinkedIn enhancers to communicate how you add value and why you are the best choice, and bio prompts and sentence starters to highlight your strengths, motivations, and impact. You’ll also receive Motivated Pitching examples to help you pitch yourself and your motivational advantages, and Motivated Negotiation suggestions to help you negotiate more effectively.
Completing the MCode assessment takes about 30 minutes. The hardest part is figuring out which success stories or examples of fulfilling work you want to share!
Think back to your highest points, proudest accomplishments, greatest achievements, biggest successes, and happiest moments — times in your life when you loved what you were doing and were fully engaged, deeply satisfied, giving it your all, and showing up as your best self.
The stories or examples you share can be from your work, hobbies and activities, school, childhood, play, volunteerism, passion projects, or any other parts of your life.
If you can’t decide which examples or stories to share, try picking stories from different aspects of your life, examples of work assignments you really enjoyed, or experiences you’d want to relive again.
When taking the MCode assessment you’ll be asked to share FOUR stories. Your stories are simply examples of times in your life when you were doing something you enjoyed and felt satisfied and proud of what you accomplished.
Starting with Story 1, you’ll share your story by answering four prompts: What the story/experience, what got you involved, what you did, and what was particularly enjoyable or satisfying about it. And no, you don’t need to write a novel. One or two sentences for each prompt is good enough.
Then, for that specific story, you’ll respond to a series of statements about your experience, ranking your level of satisfaction on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being not very satisfied and 10 being very satisfied.
You’ll do this four times — once for each story or example you share. Then our proprietary science and algorithm will process your stories and answers and produce your personalized MCode report.
If you’ve completed the assessment, your personalized MCode report can be found by logging into your personal Dashboard. Red buttons to view your report and download a PDF version are right on the main dashboard screen.
If you have not completed the assessment, when you log in, you’ll be prompted to pick up where you left off and finish your assessment experience so you can get your personalized report and discover your MCode. If you have trouble accessing your report, please contact our support team.
Yes! The Motivation Code assessment is perfect for teams! In fact, MCode offers three different team experiences: A Self-Paced Team Workshop for small businesses, a Virtual Half-Day Team Workshop for remote teams, and a two-day Enterprise Team Onsite where a Certified MCode Executive Coach comes to your offices, retreat, summit, or meeting.
The Virtual Team Half-Day and Enterprise Team Experiences also include custom Team Motivational Maps and customized training tailored to your team’s motivational makeup.
Reach out to a member of our team to talk about your team and get pricing options.
If improving the performance of your team is a priority, we’ve also written a whitepaper on Building & Leading High Performance Workplace Teams. It covers three core dynamics you need to create strong teams, actionable strategies, and examples from brands you know!
Many coaches, agencies, and organizations use the MCode assessment with leads and clients to understand who they are selling to and working with.
Knowing what motivates leads to act and how prospective clients make buying decisions will help you close more sales. Knowing what motivates clients to feel happy with your work, hire you again, and refer others your way will help you build stronger, longer-lasting client relationships. Knowing what drives coaching clients to go all-in, commit to a goal, and stick with it will help you tailor your services to better fit your clients and enhance the value of your coaching or services.
You can easily share MCode with your leads and clients by purchasing an MCode Gift Report. When you gift an MCode Lite report or gift an MCode Premium Report, a gift report is added to your MCode Dashboard. You can then share it with your lead or client and invite them to take the assessment.
The organizations that see the most success with MCode are those that integrate MCode into their people management, team building, and leadership training and development programs. Most companies start with one team — and one team is all it takes to see the MCode difference and bring more teams onboard.
MCode helps leaders understand who they are as leaders and how they show up in the workplace. Having access to the MCode reports for their team members gives them the insights needed to personalize their management approach to fit every individual on their team and inspire them to bring their best to the table.
MCode helps teams better understand and have more empathy for each other. When all members of a team truly see and respect each other, they communicate better, collaborate more effectively, give each other more grace, have more fun, and accomplish great things.
MCode also helps hiring mangers better assess potential candidates for job fit and manager fit, leading to making better hires and more effective promotions.
But finding out how your people are motivated is just the first step!
Beyond the MCode assessment and initial team experiences, MCode also provides the tools you need to track employee engagement and motivation over time: Leaders can get a monthly pulse check on how their team members feel about their assignments and work, understand their motivation levels, and leverage interactive tools that help them shape their language and tailor assignments and tasks to each person they manage.
Most personality assessments lead with labels they chose and every question you’re asked is used to stick you in a predefined box that aligns with what they think is important.
You’ve likely taken several of these personality assessments and when answering questions, thought to yourself, “It depends,” and that’s the problem. If you’d answer a question differently based on the day or how you’re feeling at the time, you can’t be sure the results are accurate and truly reflective of who you are. This is why most of the results are only sort of accurate and sort of relevant, and, why when it comes to actually applying those results in a meaningful way, even more fall short.
MCode flips the script and keeps the focus solely on you, your stories of success and achievement, and how you felt about those life experiences. It’s the only narrative-based personality assessment that uses your own personal stories, which makes every question asked and the results directly relevant to your work and life.
Another big difference is the focus of the assessment itself. Other personality assessments focus only on your strengths and weaknesses, the MCode assessment focuses on your motivations — the why that powers your actions, preferences, and decisions.
By uncovering what drives you, we learn about who you are, what makes you unique, how you contribute value to those around you, what inspires you to do your best work, and how you interact with people whose motivations differ from your own. Your unique MCode also highlights what you’re great at and not so great at and the types of environments where you’ll either struggle or thrive.
Want to see how MCode stacks up against other popular workplace assessments? Check out the comparisons for: DiSC, Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, Working Genius, and Big Five.
We’re not saying your strengths and weaknesses don’t matter but that when it’s the only lens for identifying your personality, a key ingredient is missing.
The truth is that you can be using a core strength and doing the thing you’re best at or something you love and still not feel fulfilled by or satisfied with the experience. Only when you uncover your motivations or your MCode will you understand why sometimes you go all-in and immerse yourself in a task or activity and other times you struggle to engage, stick with, or even finish the same task.
Yes! When you are a team administrator, for an MCode team experience, you will be able to see the MCode reports for each team member within your MCode Teams Dashboard. You’ll manage your team members, invite team members, see their assessment statuses, and view their reports.
If you purchase an MCode Lite gift or purchase an MCode Premium gift, you’ll log into your MCode Dashboard to give your gift (using the recipient’s email address). You’ll be able to see if the gifted assessment has been received, but the gift reports would need to be shared with you.
If you’re a coach with an MCode subscription, you’ll access your subscription details and unique invite link within your MCode Dashboard. This is also where you’ll track who you’ve invited, see the status of assessments, and view the completed reports.