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. In today’s multi-disciplinary world, the effective integration of your dominant and potential managerial styles will help pave the path towards success.
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.
Integrator
Your EMQ responses indicate that your dominant managerial style is Integrator. Your management philosophy is driven by the expression that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”. Therefore, it is important for you to forge a solid connection between team members and the team’s goals. Sensitivity towards understanding your team members can take priority over perfecting expertise in a certain field. For you, team management is akin to conducting an orchestra: bringing out the best of each musician for the sake of the entire performance – as well as knowing when to let the soloists play.
As someone who might be viewed as “bending over backwards” to accommodate others, you might be earning a reputation as someone attempting to win a popularity contest instead of truly taking the reins. This could manifest in habits such as seeking too much approval from your team and extending meetings unnecessarily. Moreover, your time and effort at creating a positive work atmosphere could be seen as a waste—better allocated towards improving management and increasing efficiency.
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Success, as far as you are concerned, is a team effort. Your EMQ responses indicate that encouraging individual commitment and motivation towards the accomplishment of goals is the cornerstone of your management philosophy. You aim towards reaching consensus among teams and ensure that everyone not only understands their role but also carries it out well. You are known as a good listener and can identify good ideas, even if they are not yours. These characteristics make you a well-respected manager who requires that team members always do their best.
As a manager who might be viewed as expending unnecessary energy on reaching consensus, team members could actually perceive you as defending yourself from conflict or confronting the viewpoints of others.
Organizations that encourage internal competition as a means for promoting motivation will be less likely to appreciate your management philosophy. These organizations prioritize individual achievements over the empowerment and promotion of its team members. Your EMQ responses indicate that organizations that provide primarily financial rewards are less likely to suit you. These organizations might misread your patience and tolerance as compromising qualities.
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.
Creating a positive and encouraging work environment, based on mutual involvement and support unfortunately is not always positively appreciated by those concentrating on the “bottom line”. It is difficult for them to understand the added value, which might not be measurable in their view. The importance you place on investing effort in creating a positive atmosphere, as indicated by your EMQ responses, is not always understood by them. They prefer a managerial style that relies on a strict hierarchy, rather than the maximization of team members’ talents.
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.
From your EMQ responses, it seems that the organizations that understand that human capital is their most valuable asset would value your managerial style. Such organizations emphasize employee development and recognize the unique contributions of everyone. These organizations appreciate your belief in taking the time to develop and empower others. It would be wise for you to join an organization that values its human capital.
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 suggest that developing your Producer side could significantly enhance your effectiveness. While building consensus is important, leadership sometimes calls for decisiveness: setting a course and moving quickly, even if not everyone fully agrees. Tapping into this ability will strengthen your capacity to lead in more urgent, high-stakes situations.
Your potential
management skills
You are skilled at creating open forums for discussion, but your EMQ results show that you also have the ability to drive meetings toward clear outcomes. Strengthening your ability to set time limits, define decision points, and commit to a course of action will allow you to maintain your inclusive style while enhancing your ability to lead under pressure.
New Directions
To grow into broader leadership roles, developing your ability to lead through complexity and occasional disagreement will be critical. Building your Producer side doesn’t mean giving up what makes you a strong Integrator—it means expanding your toolkit, so you are prepared to succeed no matter what challenges come your way.
Your dominant managerial style is Integrator.
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invest greatly in development of human resources; -
prioritize consensus in decision making;
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might compromise on their own views in order to reach consensus;
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expend much energy in order to meet the expectations of others;
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view the team as the key to organizational success;
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focus on team-building and teamwork;
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collaborate in harmony with other departments;
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emphasize organization in work processes;
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maintain a positive professional atmosphere.
Your potential managerial style is Producer.
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optimize teamwork in order to reach the best results;
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emphasize the importance of keeping to a schedule;
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try not to compromise on their point-of-view;
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maintain the balance between the needs of the organization and the satisfaction of the team members.
