The Sima Method

The System for Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMA®) is a technique that identifies a person’s strengths and vocationally-significant motivations, providing an inventory of that individual’s unique gifts. This system involves recollection of a number of things the individual enjoyed doing and believes were done well. Analysis of these achievements reveals a recurring pattern that emerges in early years and stays constant throughout life. Understanding a person’s motivational pattern is, therefore, foundational to employment that is both highly productive to the organization and richly satisfying to the individual.

Since 1961 when the System for Identifying Motivated Abilities (SIMA®) and the MAP process were developed, no two MAPs have been discovered to be identical. Though other people might share a few MAP elements with you, the combination of particulars and the manner in which you use them is unique to you. By developing an understanding of your MAP, you will be better equipped to select career and leisure opportunities in which you will be successful and satisfied.

YOUR MOTIVATED ABILITIES PATTERN is comprised of the following sections:

• CENTRAL MOTIVATIONAL THRUST — the purpose for your activities, the source of your satisfaction, and the result that gives your work meaning
• ABILITIES — the specific abilities you are motivated to use
• RECURRING SUBJECT MATTER — the content with which or through which you are motivated to work
• RECURRING CIRCUMSTANCES — the environment in which you want to operate
• RELATIONSHIP — the manner in which you relate to other people