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:
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The gap between your self-perception and the perception of others -
Where your untapped potential is hidden
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What kinds of opportunities await you
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
(Entrepreneurial)
focuses on new opportunities; never stops; creates excitement; embraces risks; utilizes flexible thinking to charter new water
Producer
(Productive)
focuses on short-term results; approaches projects hands-on; embraces challenges; exemplifies commitment; serves as a role model
Integrator
(Integrative)
focuses on developing human capital; creates a common denominator among others; balances between needs of team and projects
Administrator
(Administrative)
prioritizes processes; plans carefully; avoids risks; considers system-wide picture in decision-making; focuses on details.
All good managers strive towards meaningful achievements, hopefully leaving a legacy in their organization for others to follow. Managers use their dominant managerial style in order to lead their team to success. Your dominant managerial style has helped you climb the corporate ladder, succeed, and shape you into the manager that you are today. Your questionnaire responses provide a reflection of your dominant managerial style – mirroring both advantages and future opportunities. 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 is crucial for your future success.
Alongside your dominant managerial style lies a potential managerial style, which is currently drawn upon less frequently. Creating awareness and belief in your potential managerial style will not only develop your talents but also will allow you to successfully face future managerial challenges. Activating your potential management style will help you locate opportunities, improve your managerial abilities, and fulfill your professional potential.
Your habits are the silent architects of your career, shaping the path to success or stagnation. Understanding and reshaping them is key to unlocking your leadership potential and career trajectory.
Habits are like undercurrents in a river, guiding your actions without your conscious awareness. From how you communicate with your team to how you manage your time and make decisions, these routines can either propel you forward or hold you back.
Recognizing this, your goal is to replace dominant habits that obscure growth with potential ones that open doors to new opportunities. By the end of this journey, you’ll mobilize your habits not as unconscious reactions, but as conscious instruments of success, intentionally crafted to help you achieve your leadership dreams.
Administrator
Your EMQ responses indicate that your management style is Administrator. Therefore, your management strategy is anchored in the belief that successful ideas should be supported by established work processes. In other words, thinking out of the box is worthless without the box itself. You see the business world as something dynamic and unpredictable. In response, you feel that in order to achieve maximum results, it is important to establish as much stability as possible through carefully planned and executed work processes.
ֿAs someone who tends to prioritize “thinking in the box” before exploring outside ideas, you may be seen as hesitant to embrace change or new perspectives. Your strong focus on ensuring certainty might sometimes give the impression that you’re slowing down innovation or progress. This management style can show up in specific ways, like limiting others from fully expressing themselves or being less adaptable in your approach.
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As you see things, successful achievement of any goal in business is dependent on clear work procedures. Your EMQ responses indicate your firm belief that guiding team members towards properly executing procedures is key to achieving the best results possible. This leads also to significant savings in human resources, promises a degree of certainty, and mitigates unnecessary tension. You therefore invest time in training your team members and are keen to hear their ideas for improving productivity.
By focusing on getting your team to follow specific procedures, you could unintentionally be perceived as a manager who restricts your team’s ability to understand and connect with the company’s broader activities and goals.
Your EMQ responses indicate that your decision-making is grounded in your ability to methodically analyze data. While your colleagues are appreciative of the results of your analyses, sometimes they might express a lack of patience when detailed research is required. In such situations, you find yourself explaining that this is the only “right” way to achieve results for the long term.
Even as a successful and respected manager, you may encounter situations that feel disappointing. When a promotion opportunity arises, you might find yourself overlooked, leading to frustration or even a sense of failure. Senior management may attempt to justify their decision, reassuring you that your strengths are a perfect fit for your current role—yet implying that they may not be sufficient for advancement.
Your patience, tolerance, analytical mindset, as well as your methodical way of doing things, could be misinterpreted by colleagues who are interested in immediate results. In looking for shortcuts, they always seem to be wandering off the beaten path, at times rejecting strategies and tactics that have been proven successful in the past. As time is a limited resource, your EMQ responses indicate that you prefer to utilize time to address system-wide issues, as opposed to coming up with “quick-fix” solutions for specific challenges.
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 your analytical abilities allow you to see not only the entire picture but also how things can be improved. This, of course, would be an asset to a variety of organizations, such as those whose products and services require careful quality assurance; those who are looking to establish or expand their market share; or those considering a merger. Such organizations would appreciate efficient work processes, leading to real growth.
Even if your current organization seems like a good fit, staying open to future senior roles is important. By developing your potential managerial style while still leveraging your dominant one, you’ll create new opportunities for career advancement down the line.
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.
Your EMQ responses suggest that your potential managerial style is that of an Integrator. As a manager, you recognize that time is a valuable resource, much of which is dedicated to overseeing and optimizing organizational processes. You also understand that these processes are critical to achieving broader company goals. Additionally, you place importance on designing procedures that align with the capabilities and responsibilities of your team. By strengthening your Integrator approach, you can use your time more efficiently, directing your efforts toward enhancing team performance and driving organizational success.
Your potential
management skills
Your Integrator potential managerial style offers you a unique ability to view projects from a comprehensive, bird’s-eye perspective. This allows you to identify not only the weaknesses in a project but also the underlying causes of these challenges—whether related to procedures or the way they are being implemented. To take full advantage of this strength, you should invest time in ensuring that procedures are well-aligned with the skills and capabilities of your team members. By focusing more on your team and fostering open communication, you can complement your natural ability to analyze and create effective systems. This will help you develop into an even more well-rounded and dynamic manager.
This will further enhance your development into a multifaceted and effective manager.
New Directions
As you continue to advance in your career, you will naturally transition away from managing the day-to-day procedures and instead shift focus to a more strategic and leadership-oriented role. As you step into senior positions, it will be essential to refine and expand your management toolkit. Developing your Integrator managerial style, by combining emotional intelligence with your analytical strengths, will enable you to better adapt to changing business dynamics and increase productivity. This will prepare you to take on larger, more complex challenges in the future, where your leadership can truly shine.
Your dominant managerial style is Administrator.
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Stay organized at all times; -
Develop and enforce organizational processes and procedures;
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Ensure strict adherence to processes;
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prioritize procedures over other considerations;
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Focus heavily on details;
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Are less open to spontaneity;
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May limit progress by being overly focused on procedures.
Your potential managerial style is Integrator.
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Build cohesive, goal-driven teams;
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Actively listen to others and integrate their input;
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Delegate authority and trust team members;
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Train team members to execute tasks in alignment with procedures.
