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
Innovation, entrepreneurship, and competitiveness are the hallmark of your management strategy. You place great importance on your team’s development and its future directions. You flourish in open and flexible environments that respond dynamically to change. Also, you participate in allocating resources to developing your organization’s core business and penetrating new markets. In order to assist in examining your organization’s preparedness for tomorrow’s challenges, you are not afraid to question some basic paradigms and beliefs.
As someone perpetually occupied with chasing “the next big thing,” you can come across as a leader with a severe lack of focus. This relentless “futuristic” orientation often makes it seem like you are completely disconnected from the present. This behavior manifests in flooding others with an overwhelming number of ideas, which can drown out priorities, frequently upend established plans, and cause significant disruption to workflows and commitments. Your constant shifting of directions can leave your team feeling unstable and unable to maintain any semblance of stability or continuity.
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You demand that team members be fast-moving. While they do their best at keeping up with you and the multitude of ideas you share with them, sometimes they are unsuccessful. You allow room for them to present creative ideas in the face of new challenges. You provide them with the freedom of movement and independence required to make decisions in an unpredictable, dynamic business environment, thus motivating them to identify with the team’s goals.
Your team members might feel that they are under a “constant fire” of new ideas and directions, which could result in a degree of confusion among them. This, in turn, could be perceived as rather haphazard management.
The uncertainty that inevitably accompanies any product or service development might lead to a lack of self-confidence among your team. Also, they might find it difficult to keep up with the pace you have set, including the many creative solutions you suggest. You are well aware of the fact that not all ideas are eventually put into action. As you see things, this is simply a stage in the creative process and part of the price of innovation. However, those in charge of the organization’s bottom line as well as its procedures might experience hardships in understanding and accepting this particular approach.
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.
As you see things, nothing can be taken for granted. The business environment is ever-changing, so it is important to know how to respond both quickly and flexibly. This way of doing things is not always viewed favorably by those loyal to organizational procedures. For you, their tendency to stick to the familiar at any cost can eventually prevent your team from achieving its vision. Naturally, this frustrates you at times. Your flexibility and openness towards change might be perceived as a lack of consistency by some others, as they do not share your belief that the path towards a goal might not always be a straight line.
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.
As an Entrepreneur, your optimal work environment would be an organization that is focused on its future and poised towards penetrating new markets. Such an organization will benefit from your managerial strategy, especially your ability to move forward, openly and flexibly, towards the generation of new ideas and accomplishment of goals. You will assist in being the driving force behind the company’s strategy for the future. In large organizations, you will find yourself in positions requiring entrepreneurship, market awareness, risk-taking, and out-of-the-box thinking.
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.
