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.
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. This can manifest as generating an abundance of ideas, potentially overwhelming priorities, or altering established plans, which may disrupt workflows and commitments.
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 brainstorming 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 you feel 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.
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. You realize that management time is a very precious resource and naturally creative processes could be time consuming. Presently, you spend most of your management time on planning the future instead of concentrating on the present. As a manager, you would like your ideas to be firmly grounded in the current needs and abilities of the team. Therefore, you find yourself required to carefully consider both the team’s present situation as well as its future. In order to allocate time to put your ideas into action, you should develop your Producer potential managerial style.
Your potential
management skills
The Producer potential managerial style allows you to view new ideas and projects from a practical point-of-view and within the context of your organization. Your EMQ responses indicate that you view the limitations set by the organization as a challenge to customize such new ideas and projects to the exact requirements of the organization. In order to succeed at such challenges, you should allocate more managerial time for researching the present needs of the organization. This will not only allow you to plan better for your team’s future but also help you develop into a more well-rounded manager.
New Directions
As you advance in your career, you will be required to develop new management skills, as well as cope with new ways of working. In order to advance to more senior management positions in the future, you should develop your Producer potential managerial style. This will enable you to put forward your creative ideas, resulting in the successful implementation of projects. In this way, you will develop as a manager who not only can express your vision but also bring it into fruition in more senior, complex positions.
Your dominant managerial style is Entrepreneur.
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think creatively; -
envision the big picture;
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search constantly for new initiatives;
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see beyond the next challenge;
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pay less attention to day to day operations and procedures;
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might face difficulties bridging the gap between innovation and practicality.
Your potential managerial style is Producer.
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pay attention to details;
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focus on accomplishment of objectives;
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measure performance;
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optimize processes in order to exceed past performance;
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turn every barrier into a challenge to overcome.
