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
From your EMQ responses, your dominant management style is Administrator. As you see things, success in business relies on doing things the right way. Therefore, your management philosophy is rooted in the understanding that sound procedures and rigorous quality assurance will lead your organization to success. Such a way of operating allows for the delicate balance between harnessing the organization’s accumulated know-how and navigating the risks of the future.
Your strong desire to accommodate others may sometimes give the impression that you prioritize being liked over leading with confidence. This tendency is reflected in your frequent need for approval from your team and your habit of extending meetings longer than necessary. While fostering a positive work environment is valuable, dedicating excessive time and energy to it could divert crucial resources from effective management and overall efficiency.
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From your EMQ responses, you expect the best from your team and you instill in them the importance of understanding details in order to arrive at “the big picture”. This is the standard that you set for yourself and you expect your team members to meet this standard as well. Team members who do so receive full support from you, including: appreciation, personal guidance, and professional development opportunities. Team members who do not take work seriously will quickly realize your intolerance for shortcuts and cutting corners.
The supportive atmosphere you work hard to cultivate may sometimes be perceived as too relaxed, potentially reducing your team’s motivation to achieve goals. Additionally, spending excessive time listening to others may lead your team to view you more as a sounding board rather than a decisive leader.
Your superiors generally have a great deal of belief in you. They consider you as the professional backbone of your organization. You excel at constantly improving and auditing the organization’s processes. Management members are usually open to your critique of the performance of others in the organization. While some colleagues are at times unhappy with the influence you have over management, others are pleased to use your knowledge in order to improve the organization.
Even though you are currently a well-respected and successful manager, this dynamic may lead to unintended consequences. You might find yourself overlooked when promotion opportunities arise, leaving you with a sense of frustration or even disillusionment. Senior management may justify their decision by reasoning that while your current leadership style is well-suited for your role today, it may not align with the demands of more senior positions.
Sometimes, you find yourself struggling with the way that your team deals with both day-to-day operations as well as emergency situations. Your talent for breaking down goals into organized procedures can sometimes be met in a threatening manner by others. Also, they might view you as inflexible, which is due to the high standards that you set. Sticking to these standards can be seen negatively by others when you are required to act quickly. Also, when you offer assistance to others, their inability to handle details could lead to your doing their work.
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 work environments including the management of complex projects would benefit from your exceptionally methodical and analytical way of doing things. You are able to develop new policies, for both the achievement of goals as well as the detailed auditing of the processes leading to these goals. In addition, you have an unusual ability to implement policies that allow teams to face complex situations. You will find yourself appreciated in organizations that value such talents.
While certain organizational environments align well with your leadership approach at the moment, future senior roles may require greater adaptability. Expanding on your potential managerial style while retaining your core strengths will position you for a broader range of advancement opportunities in the years ahead.
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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are 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.
