RMP is the only scientific one
measurement
of measuring intrinsic motivation
Reiss Motivation Profile® is the first online psychometric tool that shows precisely what drives a person and influences their behaviour.
When it comes to decisions about choosing a profession, school or job change, it is better not to rely on intuition or the opinions of others, but on your strengths and natural predispositions. But is it possible? Yes, because RMP is probably the only tool in the world with such practical applications and a strong scientific basis.
What is the RMP study?
RMP is so effective because it is strongly based on scientific research. The result is learning about 16 unchangeable motivators (of different intensity for each person) that guide your internal motivation, and therefore your life. Therefore, the key to any effective change is to get to know the 16 needs that each of us has and learn to use them skillfully.
16 motivators that every person has
Here are 16 life motivators discovered by prof. Steven Reiss after many years of international research. Every person has these motivators, but their intensity is different for each person. Taking into account the number of possible combinations of motivators, there is probably no other person in the world with an identical motivational profile, i.e. the values of these 16 life motivators, as you.
Power
the desire for influence
of will
Independence
the desire for self-reliance
Curiosity
the desire for understanding
Acceptance
the desire for positive self-regard
Order
the desire for structure and stability
Saving
the desire to collect things
Honor
The need for loyalty to principles
Idealism
the desire for social justice
Social Contact
the desire for companionship with peers
Family
the desire to raise children and spend time with siblings
Status
the desire for respect
based on social standing
Vengeance
the desire to confront those who frustrate or offend us
Beauty
the desire for aesthetic experiences
Eating
the desire to consume food
Physical Activity
the desire for muscle exercise
Tranquility
the desire to avoid experiencing anxiety and pain
This is what a motivational profile looks like
Reiss Motivation Profile®
It is clear and easy to interpret. It shows your intrinsic motivation in the form of a chart. It is displayed as a unique combination of 16 life motivators of varying intensity.
The colors indicate how strong each motivator is: orange is neutral, navy blue is big life motivators, and blue is small life motivators. At the same time, the closer to the right or left side, the more the motivators affect a person’s behaviour.
small need
(-2.00 to -0.80)
neutral need
(-0,79 to +0,79)
large need
(+0,80 to +2,00)
We focus on life motivators marked in blue, because they drive people to act and have the greatest impact on behavior.
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What questions?
Will RMP give you an answer?
Do you feel dissatisfied with where you are, want to change something, but don’t know how? RMP helps you achieve your goals faster, with less effort. And even when you work at full speed, you still have charged “batteries” because you do what you internally agree with. So what do you want to help yourself with first?
- Plan your career path?
- Manage your team more effectively?
- Help your clients achieve their development goals so that the fruits of cooperation with you stay with them for a long time?
- Can you get along better with your partner – in business and family life?
- Ensure optimal cooperation with everyone you meet on your professional path?
- Achieve a long-lasting sense of happiness and self-fulfillment?
- Introduce lasting changes in yourself?
- Motivate yourself and others to change?
- Get along with others without giving up your needs?
See what others say about us
Marzena Dembicka
Trainer and Coach, owner of Pracownia Poznania Potrzeb
They can base their way of learning, choosing a profession, way of living on their strengths. The youth learn how important it is to communicate with one another, even for “polar opposites”, which gives assumption for acceptance and tolerance to diversity. The most important thing that I have experienced many times is more effective communication between generations. Parents notice the individual needs of a teenager, and teenagers begin to understand what their parents’ needs are. Then is the time to build strategies to meet the needs of both.”
Wioletta Wojtunik
New Distribution Network Director, Śnieżka SA
“We liked the Reiss Motivation Profile, because it is precise, supported by research, and what is more, the results are easily interpreted. What convinced us to use the questionnaire was its universality and especially the constant nature of the motives over time.”
Alicja Gotowczyc
President of the Board, Forum Mentorów
“RMP is a great tool for building Mentor’s awareness, supporting the effectiveness of the mentoring process and enhancing mentoring relationships.”
Marcin Grela
Headhunter, Recruiter, Founder of the "Sales Angels" Network, 4Results
“Thanks to the knowledge gained by running an RMP assessment, I was able to reduce the time spent verifying job candidates by 40%. From what I have learnt studying outstanding salesmen, results that they all are characterized with a high need for Social Contact and Status, and a medium or low need for Acceptance. In many cases, there was also a low need for idealism.”
Katarzyna Filipowicz and Sebastian Uciński
Vice President of the Board and Dealership Director, Krotoski-Cichy
“The Management Through Motivation 3.0 Project gave us great practical knowledge and tangible people management skills. additional training on the job has taught us to analyse our co-workers’ behaviour to increase their motivation and engagement.”
Karolina Wołosowska
Manager, Sales Network Competence Development Department
“The use of the Reiss Motivation Profile tool strengthened the conscious passage of participants through the process of change that recently took place in our bank. And the participants’ curiosity related to the desire to get to know one’s motivation profile resulted in a great commitment and drawing the right conclusions.”
Łukasz Janas
President of the Board, Vowos Sp. z o.o.
“RMP allowed me not only to get to know myself better, but also to better understand my business partners. We often classify our client as a »difficult« one, while in reality there is no such thing. What really happens is we call those people »difficult« whose motivators and system of values are different to ours.”
Grzegorz Turniak
Founder of Akademia Rekomendacji, Networking Expert, Founder of BNI Polska
“RMP images the human motivation in a very precise and simple way. This allows us to diagnose in an accurate and effective way the areas in which we require training, our predispositions that should be developed and ways to motivate ourselves and others.”
Mariola Pilas-Kołodziej
Regional Sales Director, ENEL-MED S.A.
“Motivational profiling and other development measures allowed me to consolidate some information concerning myself and to gain some knowledge of the motivators of each of my team members. This has translated into better communication within the team and more effective team management.”
Agnieszka Spiżewska
Founder of Little Lab
“Others have beautiful homes, run record-breaking marathons, others have lots of money, and me? I don’t get any of this. Am I worse? I also can do anything, I just need to set about it differently, according to my motivation profile. Everybody is driven by something else. I am an idealist, so since I have founded an NGO working for the benefit of children, I’m in my element, and I know just why.”
Anna Maria Jaskólska
Coach, HR Consultant
“I have taken many personality questionnaires, but this one is different. Focusing on inner motivation, it helps you determine what you should pay more attention to in your professional life, how to make better use of your natural resources in order to make your life easier, and how to make your work more meaningful.”
Igor Belczewski
Trainer, Coach
“RMP is a tool that allows you to answer the question whether and to what extent the environment in which we live every day is compatible with us, or if it requires changes. It helps in better job matching, especially when you are still looking for your niche in the labour market.”
Izabela Pahl
Purchasing Director
“I work at full speed managing a team. I am a mother of a 2.5-year-old boy. I am a married woman. I teach dance. I am an active sportswoman. Combining all these roles is not easy, but I would never give up any of them. When I received my RMP results I came to realize, that I can juggle my talents, which really charges my batteries.”
Jakub Orłowski and Justyna Łoś
“We entered the study together, as we learned to communicate in order to achieve our goals. With research-based knowledge it is easier for us to understand each other and our mutual behaviour.”
Jolanta Christol
President of the Business is Art Foundation
“Even if you have already taken numerous personal development tests, it is still worth making the 20 minutes necessary to take the Reiss Motivation Profile. You will find out if you really know yourself. You can make some very interesting discoveries, especially if you discuss your results with a qualified Master.”
Małgorzata Brzeska, PhD
Coach, Founder of www.job-choice.net
“Everyone is motivated by a completely different thing. Why do we spend more time doing some things than others? It is worth knowing your motivators, in order to be able to make use of your strengths in a conscious way. I will definitely recommend this tool to my clients and friends interested in personal development.”
Monika Camlet
Coach, Entrepreneur
“When you receive your results, everything becomes clear and understandable: you begin to understand your behaviour, both in the present and in the past. You also deepen the awareness of how wonderfully different people are, and that if they act differently to us, it does not mean they are wrong, and their behaviour results from what is important to them and not from the need to act against us. What a relief!”
Dorota Mucha
Pedagogue
Participation in the RSMP workshop allowed me to look at my students from a completely different perspective. I started to understand their behaviour in different situations and I was thinking about how I could motivate them to act so that the goals I set for them are in line with their needs.”
Joanna Czerska-Thomas
Parent
“The RSMP profile helped me get to know my child better. I know why he behaves the way he does in a given situation. But perhaps the most important thing for me is that I know what predispositions he has in his chosen areas – it will be easier for me to direct him in choosing a job.”
Aleksander Pirecki
Student
I will gladly use the information obtained through the RSMP when choosing a course of study or a future profession.”
Joanna Piwowarczyk
Parent
The questions at the end of the report provide guidance on how to develop the spheres that are not so important to him right now.”
Kamila Wierzbicka
High school graduate in 2017
In junior high school, I performed tests of interests and predispositions, but during the test I was able to guess what the result would be, while doing RSMP I could not manipulate the answers because I did not know what the effect would be.
The profile showed what my needs are and that low values are not a bad thing. After discussing the profile and coming home, I was excited about the result. When my mum saw my profile, she finally realized that some of my behaviours aren’t just my whims or cravings, but that this is just the way I am, and she should accept this.”
Karolina Marcinkowska
Junior high school student
“You lack faith in yourself? Spare 20 minutes of your time to take the Reiss Motivation Profile questionnaire. It will not only help you get to know and understand yourself better, but also will make you look in the mirror and say: I’m valuable.” Now I know there are things that I’m really good at.”
Dr Melania Orzechowska
Pedagogue
“In my opinion, the RSMP is a win-win solution, as it not only allows to get to know the needs of young people, predict their behaviour, but it also indicates whom and how to motivate, and makes it easier for children and young people to choose the right path of education and their future careers. I think that in the long run, using the RSMP may significantly increase the quality of education.”
Mikołaj Sznaza
Highschool Student
“The meeting to discuss the results with my mum was very useful, because she could see for the first time what it is really that is in my head, and how I see the world. Now we understand each other better and know what to expect of each other and how to talk to each other.”
Paulina Radtke
Highschool Student
From now on, it’ll be easier for us to communicate and solve common problems.”
Monika Pujszo
Parent
“The RSMP is a dream-come-true instruction manual to your child. As a parent, quite understandingly, I had had a vision of what was best for my child, but the test results came as a surprise.” Even more surprisingly, my son was not shocked at all, quite to the contrary – he agreed with everything the RSMP showed.”
Marzena Dembicka
Trainer and Coach, owner of Pracownia Poznania Potrzeb
They can base their way of learning, choosing a profession, way of living on their strengths. The youth learn how important it is to communicate with one another, even for “polar opposites”, which gives assumption for acceptance and tolerance to diversity. The most important thing that I have experienced many times is more effective communication between generations. Parents notice the individual needs of a teenager, and teenagers begin to understand what their parents’ needs are. Then is the time to build strategies to meet the needs of both.”
Wioletta Wojtunik
New Distribution Network Director, Śnieżka SA
“We liked the Reiss Motivation Profile, because it is precise, supported by research, and what is more, the results are easily interpreted. What convinced us to use the questionnaire was its universality and especially the constant nature of the motives over time.”
Alicja Gotowczyc
President of the Board, Forum Mentorów
“RMP is a great tool for building Mentor’s awareness, supporting the effectiveness of the mentoring process and enhancing mentoring relationships.”
Marcin Grela
Headhunter, Recruiter, Founder of the "Sales Angels" Network, 4Results
“Thanks to the knowledge gained by running an RMP assessment, I was able to reduce the time spent verifying job candidates by 40%. From what I have learnt studying outstanding salesmen, results that they all are characterized with a high need for Social Contact and Status, and a medium or low need for Acceptance. In many cases, there was also a low need for idealism.”
Katarzyna Filipowicz and Sebastian Uciński
Vice President of the Board and Dealership Director, Krotoski-Cichy
“The Management Through Motivation 3.0 Project gave us great practical knowledge and tangible people management skills. additional training on the job has taught us to analyse our co-workers’ behaviour to increase their motivation and engagement.”
Karolina Wołosowska
Manager, Sales Network Competence Development Department
“The use of the Reiss Motivation Profile tool strengthened the conscious passage of participants through the process of change that recently took place in our bank. And the participants’ curiosity related to the desire to get to know one’s motivation profile resulted in a great commitment and drawing the right conclusions.”
Łukasz Janas
President of the Board, Vowos Sp. z o.o.
“RMP allowed me not only to get to know myself better, but also to better understand my business partners. We often classify our client as a »difficult« one, while in reality there is no such thing. What really happens is we call those people »difficult« whose motivators and system of values are different to ours.”
Grzegorz Turniak
Founder of Akademia Rekomendacji, Networking Expert, Founder of BNI Polska
“RMP images the human motivation in a very precise and simple way. This allows us to diagnose in an accurate and effective way the areas in which we require training, our predispositions that should be developed and ways to motivate ourselves and others.”
Mariola Pilas-Kołodziej
Regional Sales Director, ENEL-MED S.A.
“Motivational profiling and other development measures allowed me to consolidate some information concerning myself and to gain some knowledge of the motivators of each of my team members. This has translated into better communication within the team and more effective team management.”
Agnieszka Spiżewska
Founder of Little Lab
“Others have beautiful homes, run record-breaking marathons, others have lots of money, and me? I don’t get any of this. Am I worse? I also can do anything, I just need to set about it differently, according to my motivation profile. Everybody is driven by something else. I am an idealist, so since I have founded an NGO working for the benefit of children, I’m in my element, and I know just why.”
Anna Maria Jaskólska
Coach, HR Consultant
“I have taken many personality questionnaires, but this one is different. Focusing on inner motivation, it helps you determine what you should pay more attention to in your professional life, how to make better use of your natural resources in order to make your life easier, and how to make your work more meaningful.”
Igor Belczewski
Trainer, Coach
“RMP is a tool that allows you to answer the question whether and to what extent the environment in which we live every day is compatible with us, or if it requires changes. It helps in better job matching, especially when you are still looking for your niche in the labour market.”
Izabela Pahl
Purchasing Director
“I work at full speed managing a team. I am a mother of a 2.5-year-old boy. I am a married woman. I teach dance. I am an active sportswoman. Combining all these roles is not easy, but I would never give up any of them. When I received my RMP results I came to realize, that I can juggle my talents, which really charges my batteries.”
Jakub Orłowski and Justyna Łoś
“We entered the study together, as we learned to communicate in order to achieve our goals. With research-based knowledge it is easier for us to understand each other and our mutual behaviour.”
Jolanta Christol
President of the Business is Art Foundation
“Even if you have already taken numerous personal development tests, it is still worth making the 20 minutes necessary to take the Reiss Motivation Profile. You will find out if you really know yourself. You can make some very interesting discoveries, especially if you discuss your results with a qualified Master.”
Małgorzata Brzeska, PhD
Coach, Founder of www.job-choice.net
“Everyone is motivated by a completely different thing. Why do we spend more time doing some things than others? It is worth knowing your motivators, in order to be able to make use of your strengths in a conscious way. I will definitely recommend this tool to my clients and friends interested in personal development.”
Monika Camlet
Coach, Entrepreneur
“When you receive your results, everything becomes clear and understandable: you begin to understand your behaviour, both in the present and in the past. You also deepen the awareness of how wonderfully different people are, and that if they act differently to us, it does not mean they are wrong, and their behaviour results from what is important to them and not from the need to act against us. What a relief!”
Dorota Mucha
Pedagogue
Participation in the RSMP workshop allowed me to look at my students from a completely different perspective. I started to understand their behaviour in different situations and I was thinking about how I could motivate them to act so that the goals I set for them are in line with their needs.”
Joanna Czerska-Thomas
Parent
“The RSMP profile helped me get to know my child better. I know why he behaves the way he does in a given situation. But perhaps the most important thing for me is that I know what predispositions he has in his chosen areas – it will be easier for me to direct him in choosing a job.”
Aleksander Pirecki
Student
I will gladly use the information obtained through the RSMP when choosing a course of study or a future profession.”
Joanna Piwowarczyk
Parent
The questions at the end of the report provide guidance on how to develop the spheres that are not so important to him right now.”
Kamila Wierzbicka
High school graduate in 2017
In junior high school, I performed tests of interests and predispositions, but during the test I was able to guess what the result would be, while doing RSMP I could not manipulate the answers because I did not know what the effect would be.
The profile showed what my needs are and that low values are not a bad thing. After discussing the profile and coming home, I was excited about the result. When my mum saw my profile, she finally realized that some of my behaviours aren’t just my whims or cravings, but that this is just the way I am, and she should accept this.”
Karolina Marcinkowska
Junior high school student
“You lack faith in yourself? Spare 20 minutes of your time to take the Reiss Motivation Profile questionnaire. It will not only help you get to know and understand yourself better, but also will make you look in the mirror and say: I’m valuable.” Now I know there are things that I’m really good at.”
Dr Melania Orzechowska
Pedagogue
“In my opinion, the RSMP is a win-win solution, as it not only allows to get to know the needs of young people, predict their behaviour, but it also indicates whom and how to motivate, and makes it easier for children and young people to choose the right path of education and their future careers. I think that in the long run, using the RSMP may significantly increase the quality of education.”
Mikołaj Sznaza
Highschool Student
“The meeting to discuss the results with my mum was very useful, because she could see for the first time what it is really that is in my head, and how I see the world. Now we understand each other better and know what to expect of each other and how to talk to each other.”
Paulina Radtke
Highschool Student
From now on, it’ll be easier for us to communicate and solve common problems.”
Monika Pujszo
Parent
“The RSMP is a dream-come-true instruction manual to your child. As a parent, quite understandingly, I had had a vision of what was best for my child, but the test results came as a surprise.” Even more surprisingly, my son was not shocked at all, quite to the contrary – he agreed with everything the RSMP showed.”
Marzena Dembicka
Trainer and Coach, owner of Pracownia Poznania Potrzeb
They can base their way of learning, choosing a profession, way of living on their strengths. The youth learn how important it is to communicate with one another, even for “polar opposites”, which gives assumption for acceptance and tolerance to diversity. The most important thing that I have experienced many times is more effective communication between generations. Parents notice the individual needs of a teenager, and teenagers begin to understand what their parents’ needs are. Then is the time to build strategies to meet the needs of both.”
How does RMP differ from other tests and tools?
Classic psychological tests, even the most popular ones, are not enough today to base one’s decisions in the most important life matters on the knowledge they provide. Why? Let us show you the differences between RMP and other tests you may have heard of:
1. RMP does not diagnose features but internal needs. It is internal needs that are the source of human behavior. Only on their basis will you accurately determine a person’s motivators.
2. RMP does not put you in a bag with a label, it does not say, you are this or that. Instead, it shows on a scale the individual intensity of 16 internal needs – motivators, which is unique to each person.
3. RMP is based on the proven theory of prof. Steven Reiss. This is the only scientifically verified method for diagnosing the high needs of post-natal life. Psychometric measurement.
4. RMP is an American tool, available in 22 languages and used on six continents. You will successfully apply them in a multicultural and international environment.
5. The RMP was adapted in Poland in accordance with the author’s recommendations, and the quality of the psychometric measurement is verified on an ongoing basis.
6. RMP is resistant to intentional manipulation of responses and meets all soundness criteria for psychometric psychological tests.
6 reasons why RMP a reliable tool
The RMP presents a taxonomy of 16 basic human needs. It is an innovative and the only such a comprehensive psychological concept examining motivation that meets all 5 scientific criteria relating to psychometric research: validity, reliability, standardization, objectivity and normalization.
The RMP Incentive Profile is relatively stable over time, which means it may change, but only slightly. We are born with these needs, and during life these needs crystallize under the influence of the environment, experiences and experiences.
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Reiss Motivation Profile® is the first online tool diagnosing a person’s intrinsic motivation. The RMP motivation testing process is standardized, and the intensity of 16 motivators is developed algorithmically and objectively interpreted.
2
Reiss Motivation Profile® results are reliable. This was confirmed by tests of internal consistency and stability over time. You can read more about the reliability of the RMP psychological motivation test in the original scientific publications of prof. Steven Reiss.
3
The Reiss Motivation Profile® results are spot on. This is confirmed by independent studies of convergent, discriminant and criterion validity, which are described in more detail in peer-reviewed scientific articles and publications by prof. Steven Reiss and other scientists and practitioners using RMP.
4
Reiss Motivation Profile® is a psychometric test that was adapted in Poland in accordance with the recommendations of the author – prof. Steven Reiss. RMP has standards that are subject to ongoing verification. The current norms of the RMP psychological test are from 2022.
5
Motivational testing with the RMP psychological test is highly resistant to manipulation of responses in order to influence its result. The impact of this effect measured using the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale for the RMP psychometric test is below 3% and is small.
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RMP is a questionnaire diagnosing internal motivation, which allows you to learn about your natural predispositions and potential. RMP does not group, categorize, or be limited by personality typology. It shows the individuality of man. The number of possible combinations is encoded_tag_closed >43,000,000.
Learn the science behind the tool
You can find publications and articles here.
Want to start with a book?
If you like reading and want to learn better about the innovative method of examining internal motivation, order the book “What motivates you?”. This is the first step to understanding your internal motivators, natural needs and strengths. And once you learn how they work, it will help you lead a more fulfilling life.
A short history of the Reiss Motivation Profile®
In 1998 Professor Steven Reiss, a recognised expert in psychiatry and clinic psychology from the Ohio University developed the RMP method. The main objective was to scientifically understand human motivation, that is, the intrinsic motivators which influence people’s thinking and behaviour.
Using contemporary theories of motivation psychology, Reiss selected 500 factors which influence motivation and goal attainment. His scientific team sent surveys to 25,000 people on four continents, asking them to specify their motivations.
After a few years of studies, computer assisted analyses of results and in-depth interviews, Professor Reiss’s team ended up with 16 motivators that are appropriate for the whole global population. Next, questions were developed to verify these needs/motivators as precisely as possible. This is how Reiss’s motivation profile was created. In 2014, we brought the RMP method to Poland.