Your EMQ Report
You’ve already taken the first step towards success by filling out the Executive Mirror Questionnaire. The EMQ report that you are about to read has been generated especially for you. It will give you a personal picture of where you are now as a manager as well as guidance on reaching your professional goals.
The EMQ report provides results and conclusions based on your responses to the questionnaire. You’ll discover:
Every manager has a dominant managerial style. This style is formed, developed, and refined throughout a manager’s professional life. A dominant managerial style reflects a manager’s professional experience and education as well as a manager’s general approach towards business and life. There are four basic managerial styles:
Entrepreneur
Your EMQ responses indicate that your dominant managerial style is Entrepreneur. As you see things, realizing your vision will always lead to victory for your team. Openness, flexibility, and innovation are part and parcel of your managerial activities. Therefore, you feel that teams that do not create new opportunities have no future. Based on this belief, you work around the clock and invest most of your managerial energy in order to create new opportunities.
As someone constantly chasing “the next big thing”, you can be perceived as a manager lacking in focus. This “futuristic” orientation might cause your environment to feel that you are not operating properly in the present.
Your EMQ responses indicate that you value creative team members who are willing to take chances so that your team can sprint towards reaching important goals. Therefore, employing creative team members who can cope with a dynamic business environment is a priority. You tend to show them a great deal of encouragement and your own enthusiasm rubs off on them, leading to admirable results. When team members encounter a difficult challenge, you encourage them to exploit the opportunity for exploration.
As someone who tends to focus team members on brain storming solutions or coming up with innovations, you might be perceived as a manager who fails to instill a sense of focus and follow-through among team members.
As a manager focused on the long-term, organizations that tend to concentrate on short-term performance are less suitable for you. Your EMQ responses indicate your feeling that the energy invested in managing the present in such organizations would seem wasteful and unnecessary. However, your developed business acumen as well as your talent for identifying new business opportunities can contribute greatly to such organizations. Organizations that see themselves as exclusively results-oriented will find it difficult coping with your entrepreneurial spirit, unless they see the great added value that you bring for long-term performance.
It is precisely this undesirable situation that you might find yourself in, even though you are currently a well-respected and successful manager. Nevertheless, you could find yourself being passed over the next time a promotion opportunity arises. This would of course create a major feeling of frustration and possibly failure – all to be explained away and rationalized by senior management. Be assured that their justification for their decision is that the qualities you exhibit now seem “right” for this job, but not for anything beyond it.
You believe in risk-taking and that calculated risks should prioritize the long-term over the short term. Your ability for “long-distance running” might leave others behind. While you are planning long, arduous journeys, others might be bogged down in details, as far as you are concerned. Such colleagues and team members might misunderstand you because of their need for certainty and understanding of details they see as important. Your EMQ responses indicate that in such cases, when you need to “speak their language”, you may face some difficulties.
As a manager, you would like to harness your dominant managerial style in order to succeed and be promoted. However, it is important to remember that organizations, too, have their own managerial style and tend to favor specific styles over others. In order for you to utilize your dominant managerial style, it is important to check compatibility with a prospective organization. Otherwise, you might find yourself wasting time and energy as well as feeling disappointed. The successful matching of managerial styles between an organization and you is crucial for your future success.
Your EMQ responses indicate that the optimal organizational environment for your development would not only value new ideas and innovation but also appreciate that important achievements sometimes require leaving formal procedures aside. Therefore, organizations in which you are involved understand that they will greatly benefit from your abilities to promote new ideas and take chances. True exploitation of your talents could lead to, for example, penetration into new markets, development of innovative products, and acquiring new market segments.
While certain organizational environments are optimal for you right now, when it comes to more senior positions in the future, it’s best to keep your options as open as possible. Working on developing your potential managerial style, while still maintaining your dominant one, will promise a variety of advancement opportunities in the years to come.
Alongside your dominant managerial style lies a potential managerial style, which is currently drawn upon less frequently.
Your potential managerial style can be described as a “diamond in the rough”, waiting to be polished into a sparkling jewel. This can be accomplished by first creating both awareness and belief in your potential managerial style and then taking real steps to develop it. The resulting improvement in your overall managerial abilities will reward you with new opportunities, allowing you to fulfill your true professional potential. In today’s multi-disciplinary world, the effective integration of your dominant and potential managerial styles will help pave the path towards success.
Your EMQ responses indicate that your potential management style is Administrator. Management time is a very precious resource, of which you are quite aware. You spend most of your management time concentrating on the future. This type of prioritizing might preclude you from allocating management time to improving and streamlining processes. You should invest more thought not only in your vision but also in realizing it as efficiently as possible. With such a mindset, you are required to deal both with the future as well as the planning of processes. In order to allocate more time for planning and follow-up, you should develop your Administrator potential managerial style.
