Why do most personality assessments miss the point?

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You’ve likely taken a personality assessment (or twelve) at some point in your life. And you probably got to the end only to discover that the results read more like a horoscope, without any real ways to apply it to your life.

Most traditional assessments leave you asking, “So what? Now what?”

MCode is different.

For starters, the MCode motivation assessment isn’t a personality test. It’s a deep look at the underlying motivators that drive you when you’re at your best. But it also doesn’t lump you into a category alongside millions of other people, and then leave you guessing how to apply it to your life.

When I tell you we’ve spent the past two years creating dozens of tools to help people apply their MCode to their life, I’m not kidding. It’s one of the biggest things that sets MCode apart from every other assessment out there.

Here are 8 ways you can apply your MCode to your life right away:


1. Place the Right People in the Right Roles

Have you ever hired someone with the perfect set of skills and credentials who still underperformed? What if you could predict that before making the offer?

MCode reveals exactly what energizes candidates beyond their resume qualifications. By understanding someone’s core motivational pattern, you can place them in roles where they’ll naturally thrive rather than merely survive.


2. Discover Your Ideal Career Path

How many hours have you spent in roles that left you feeling empty? What if you could be completely confident in your next move rather than guessing?

Your MCode report tells you specifically which environments will drain you and which ones will energize you. Instead of forcing yourself into a role that looks good on paper, your motivational pattern can guide you toward a career that aligns with your innate drivers.


3. Unlock Your Unique Performance Pattern

Ever wonder why you struggle with certain tools, processes, and systems that seem to work perfectly for others?

MCode shows how you’re uniquely wired to perform at your best and experience more of those moments where you’re in flow. No generic productivity advice here. Your results explain exactly why some approaches work brilliantly for colleagues but fail miserably for you.


4. Maximize Your Energy and Eliminate Burnout

Why do you feel exhausted after certain tasks that other people find energizing?

MCode pinpoints the activities that naturally energize or drain you. It’s not random. It’s your motivational pattern trying to show you where to invest your time for the greatest sense of fulfillment.


5. Speak Directly to Others’ Motivational Language

How often do your most important conversations seem to fall flat, despite your best strategies?

Words that inspire one person may completely miss the mark with another. MCode helps you speak the specific motivational language that resonates with each individual. It’s like the Five Love Languages, but for business.


6. Lead Each Person According to Their Unique MCode

Why do some team members thrive under your leadership while others struggle? It can’t be that they’re just “not the right fit.”

Great leaders understand not just what to delegate, but how to frame work in ways that tap into each team member’s natural drivers. MCode gives you this insight without years of trial and error.


7. Connect With What Actually Drives Decisions

How much time do you waste on generic sales approaches that miss the mark?

When you understand what truly motivates someone, you can present solutions that speak directly to their core drivers—not just their surface needs. MCode helps you connect at this deeper level.


8. Turn Conflicts into Complementary Strengths

Why do the same conflicts seem to keep happening, despite your best efforts to resolve them?

Most conflicts aren’t about the particular issue at hand, but about clashing motivational patterns. MCode helps you transform those tensions into complementary strengths by revealing the underlying drivers, and helps you predict conflict before it happens!


MCode is Your Personal Action Plan

The MCode assessment doesn’t just show how you’re wired (though it certainly does that, too). It helps you apply those insights to your work and your life today.

Want to learn more? Our team just produced a series of on-demand videos that dive into each one of these 8 topics in 20 minutes or less. Check them out!

Which one of these areas would help you the most? Reach out today, or let me know in the comments below.