MCode vs Enneagram
Understanding personality and emotional patterns improves interpersonal and team dynamics, but high-performance organizations need to move beyond personality and tap into motivation and its practical application in the workplace.
MCode saw right into my soul. What motivates me was spot on and I even learned new motivations.
Self-awareness and personal growth
While the Enneagram helps people better understand their emotional patterns, discovering one's MCode reveals WHY they have specific strengths or encounter specific challenges.
Enneagram highlights what drives fears, desires, and emotional responses.
MCode explains intrinsic motivations that drive satisfaction, fulfillment, engagement, performance, and achievement.
Scary accurate results
Because Enneagram results are self-reported and often aspirational, results aren't always accurate. MCode's narrative approach ensures results are accurate, or as our customers say, 'scary accurate.'
MCode assesses lived experiences and satisfaction levels to uncover motivational patterns that drive behavior.
The MCode assessment is narrative-based, starting with a person's own stories of peak life moments.
Work and life at their best
MCode explains why tasks are energizing or draining and why sometimes, even in a role that matches personality, someone can feel unhappy and unengaged. The results highlight what an individual needs to perform at their best and feel deeply satisfied.
Personality typing vs. Performance typing
Enneagram classifies people into 9 types based on emotional patterns. MCode maps 32 Motivations across 8 Dimensions for performance typing.
Performance
People have distinct motivated abilities that lead to professional success and personal fulfillment.
Enneagram: Understanding core emotional drivers, desires, and fears is key to self-awareness.
Motivational Patterns
Reveals the why behind behavior and what drives actions, decisions, and satisfaction.
Enneagram: Explores feelings, reactions, and relational dynamics through emotional understanding.
Professional Success
Helps individuals achieve peak performance by harnessing unique motivations and natural advantages.
Enneagram: Fosters empathy and emotional intelligence for improved relationships.
MCode vs Enneagram Features Comparison
Both serve to enhance self-awareness but diverge significantly in methodology, development, and application.
8 Motivational Dimensions shaped by a stacked ranking of 32 core Motivations.
9 personality types with wings, stress/growth points, and triads.
Based on validated science, deep research, and the underpinnings of The System for Motivated Abilities (SIMA) originally created by Art Miller.
Based in spirituality and philosophical theory. Expanded with psychological insights from individual narratives, experiences, and opinions.
60+ years of empirical science, qualitative research, and narrative psychology.
A typology system relying on anecdotal evidence. Lacks an empirical foundation.
Created in the 1950s and originally administered through interviews. The application of technology introduced automation, improved consistency, eliminated potential bias from interviewers, and introduced scalability.
Contemporary teachings began in the 1950s. An assessment or type indicator test was not created until the 1990s. Many styles of assessments and tests have been created by people and companies with different approaches.
Share four personal stories and answer questions using a 1-10 satisfaction ranking.
Self-identify type or respond to arbitrary statements by ranking accuracy.
Always the same, only available through Motivations AI. Objective and reliable.
Many Enneagram assessments exist. No two experiences are the same. Subjective.
Applicable in personal growth, career planning, coaching, team dynamics, performance, leadership development, and organizational development.
Applicable in psychotherapy, coaching, spiritual growth, counseling, self-awareness, personal growth, and the improvement of interpersonal dynamics.
Ability-focused. How an individual is motivated to engage and why they behave the way they do.
Personality-focused. Emotions, core desires, core fears, and strengths and weaknesses.
Individuals may feel pressure to pick the 'right stories' to share.
Self-reporting introduces bias, leading to unreliability and inaccuracy.
Reading my MCode report was extremely validating and insightful. In a world full of thought leaders telling you to be like them, MCode empowers you to be the best version of yourself.
An Enneagram alternative?
When an organization uses both MCode and Enneagram, it can develop a deeply engaged workforce, create a burnout-resistant culture, and achieve greater outcomes.
Improved interpersonal dynamics
Both drive self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and understanding of why people feel, think, and act the way they do.
Greater professional success
Individuals who know both can tap into their innate greatness to show up at their best and find deep fulfillment.
Increased team effectiveness
Teams better understand each others' innate value, communication styles, and preferred work styles.
Personalized leadership
Leaders can tailor assignments and roles to fit individuals so they feel safer and happier at work.
Discover your MCode!
See what truly motivates you and experience work at its best.