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 insists on “thinking in the box” before thinking out of it, you could be perceived as resistant to change and even reluctant to embrace new ideas. Your unrelenting emphasis on ensuring certainty could lead others to see you as hindering innovation and progress. This managerial style often manifests in specific habits, such as preventing others from expressing themselves and being less flexible 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.
As someone who limits your team to following individual procedures, you could be viewed as a manager who hinders your team’s understanding of and engagement with the company’s overall activities and strategies.
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.
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. “Rest 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.
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.
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.
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 indicate that your potential managerial style is Producer. Management time is a very limited resource and you find yourself spending much of it managing and tracking processes. However, you are aware of the fact that these processes are designed to achieve specific goals. Therefore, such processes should be “put to the test” not only in terms of how sound they are, but also, and more importantly, in terms of their applicability in a dynamic business environment. In order to save precious management time, you should consider developing your Producer potential managerial style.
Your potential
management skills
Your Producer potential managerial style can allow you to quickly identify the optimal courses of action within the shortest time frames possible. This practical approach to management should come into play when designing work processes. Your EMQ responses indicate that you have a great deal of flexibility as well as the ability to tailor processes for specific targets. These will help you achieve overall goals, without compromising the emphasis you place on careful analysis. In addition, they will help you develop into a more well-rounded manager.
New Directions
Any career promotion or new position will require you to give up on your “hands-on” approach to building and managing intricate work processes. Instead, you’ll be challenged with developing additional management tools. In order to advance to more senior positions, you should nurture your Producer potential managerial style, realizing that flexibility and precision are not mutually exclusive. Particularly, if you develop your flexibility, you will find yourself achieving meaningful results. In this way, you will become a manager who can assume larger, more complex roles.
Your dominant managerial style is Administrator.
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remain organized at all times; -
develop organizational processes and procedures;
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ensure following of procedures;
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prioritize procedures over other considerations;
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focus too much on details;
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less open to spontaneity;
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may hold back progress because of too much focus on procedures.
Your potential managerial style is Producer.
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achieve results quickly by optimizing teamwork;
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strive to shorten and speed up processes;
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decrease overlaps on project tasks by creating transparency among team members;
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arrive at swift results by economizing on resources and utilizing procedures.
