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.
Producer
From your EMQ responses, you view the strength of an organization as a function of its ability to carry out its objectives. This management philosophy guides you day by day, hour by hour. Therefore, attention to detail drives your management style, leading to the quick and effective accomplishment of your organization’s objectives – and always within budget. Measuring your own performance as well as those around you is very important to you. You do not rest on your laurels. Instead, every moment is spent optimizing processes in order to exceed past performance.
While you are highly engaged in the day-to-day work of your team, you are in danger of being perceived as a manager who fails to encourage responsibility and ownership of projects among team members. Preventing others from expressing themselves and overusing informal communication channels can exacerbate this perception. Moreover, as a results-oriented manager, the “shortcuts” you take and encourage can form an image of a manager who is “scatterbrained” and imprudent.
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The precision and clarity with which you manage not only facilitate the accomplishment of objectives by your team members but also serve as a role model for them. In fact, your team members will frequently see you “rolling up your sleeves” to join them. In this capacity, you often specifically direct them in terms of how to achieve their goals. Your EQM responses indicate that you prefer tackling issues in one-on-one conferences with subordinates, rather than in large meetings. You focus your team members on developing and streamlining flexible solutions to challenges. Your commitment is contagious and can be witnessed among many team members.
As someone who is always available to “put out the fires” of team members with your sharp decisiveness, you could actually be perceived as a manager who not only hinders the development of problem-solving skills and strategic thinking among your team but also manifests dependence on you.
Your EQM responses indicate that your management style is characterized by a great deal of energy. In fact, this energy is contagious among many team members. However, some team members who appreciate routine in their work life might feel stressed by a managerial style they view as unpredictable. In fact, you might find them attempting to slow you down, rather than trying to keep up with you.
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.
As someone who turns every barrier into a challenge, sometimes you might discover team members taking unfair advantage of this enthusiasm, leaving you to complete their objectives. Your knowledge, self-confidence, and demand for excellence might lead to others feeling less confident in carrying out their objectives. Your EQM responses indicate that you are highly-focused on accomplishing goals, even at the expense of foregoing organizational procedures in order to improvise. Some team members might not attempt to keep up with you and thus leave their objectives incomplete.
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 your expansive knowledge, insatiable curiosity, and strong work ethic would be highly appreciated in dynamic, fast-moving and flexible organizations. These organizations will benefit from your ability to increase efficiency and obtain impressive results within relatively short timeframes. It would be wise for you to join results-oriented organizations that would provide you with the freedom of movement you require to achieve such results.
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 Entrepreneur. You are well aware that management time is a limited resource and would prefer dedicating more management time to long-term, rather than short term challenges. You not only have creative and innovative ideas but also plans for their fruition. However, you are forced to deal with one issue at a time, rather than working on both short and long-term issues. In order to allocate management time to creative and innovative ventures, you should try to develop your Entrepreneur potential managerial style.
Your potential
management skills
Your EQM responses indicate that your potential managerial style is Entrepreneur. This managerial style can be developed without damaging your current success at achieving goals. You should hire creative team members, develop their talents, and delegate responsibilities to them. This will allow for more of your creative ideas to be developed and brought into fruition. As a result, you will be known as a forward-thinking manager who prioritizes the long-term success of your team.
New Directions
With every stage of advancement in your career, you will find yourself dealing less with the accomplishment of day-to-day tasks. In order to advance to more senior positions in the future, you should develop your Entrepreneur potential managerial style. As long as you provide subordinates with freedom and independence, you will benefit from their results. Also, you will be able to develop yourself as a manager who knows how to preserve the existing strengths of the team as well as to charter new waters.
Your dominant managerial style is Producer.
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focus on successfully accomplishing tasks; -
concentrate on results more than on procedures;
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are highly involved and influential over others;
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willingly take on challenges;
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do not delegate authority;
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work hard and serve as a role model for others;
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prioritize tasks at-hand over future strategy;
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demonstrate flexibility and the ability to move quickly;
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seek shortcuts in order to reach goals;
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believe that the ends justify the means;
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prefer working alone over collaborating with a team;
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might show less openness to the points-of-view of others.
Your potential managerial style is Entrepreneur.
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demonstrate creativity and flexibility;
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see beyond the here-and-now;
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seek new directions and initiatives;
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strive to influence others;
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encourage new ideas from others.
