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
From your responses, it seems as if your dominant management style is Integrator. As an Integrator, the wisdom of the crowd is an important cornerstone of your beliefs. Real knowledge in organizations comes from both managers and team members, as they are the ones facing the daily challenges. Therefore, the best way to achieve success is through openness, cooperation, and the creation of common goals among everyone. You are able to turn ideas coming from junior team members into detailed action plans for the whole team to follow. Moreover, your special ability to integrate both goals and activities from various teams has been the key to your success so far and will continue to serve you well in the future.
Your excessive attempts to accommodate others could make you appear as prioritizing your popularity over assertively leading. This behavior is evident in your constant need for approval from your team and your tendency to drag out meetings unnecessarily. Your constant focus on creating a positive work atmosphere is not only a waste of time and effort but also a significant misallocation of resources that could be better spent on effective management and boosting efficiency.
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From your EMQ responses, it seems that empowering team members is central to team progress. You know how to give credit to your team members, both directly as well as when speaking about them with others. Your office door is always open and welcoming for consultation on both professional and personal matters. When you see a team member promoted either inside or outside of your organization, you experience great professional satisfaction and pride. This philosophy is expressed through your creation of a pleasant, open atmosphere, based on mutual understanding and broad agreement. Your team is well aware of your belief in allowing room for trial-and-error, as this is essential for eventual team success. This belief imbues everyone with the self-confidence to experiment, confer, and advance as a united team.
The positive atmosphere that you work hard to create might be perceived by others as lax, leading to less motivation by team members to accomplish goals. Also, too much time spent listening to others could result in a team that sees their manager as a sounding board instead of a leader.
Your EMQ responses indicate that from your point-of-view, expending energy and resources on building a cohesive team is essential to achieving goals. Other managers, who tend to focus more aggressively on the bottom line, could perceive such team building as a waste of time. Therefore, while you might see yourself as an “invisible” conductor of a large orchestra, these other managers must be seen front and center. Your encouragement of trial-and-error, curiosity, and conferring are sometimes met with misunderstanding by these other managers. In fact, they will probably never agree with your 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.
From your EMQ responses, as you see things, precise planning, relevant data gathering, and intrinsically motivating team members are crucial in business. Therefore, to achieve results, a great deal of time, patience, and knowledge are required. In the here-and-now business environment of today, along with its related risks, such principles might be interpreted by others as unnecessary and possibly damaging to progress. Those who favor shortcuts will probably never fully comprehend your managerial style. Their tendency to shirk responsibilities and ignore standard processes could turn out to be a real source of frustration for you.
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.
Organizations that are well-established will appreciate your managerial style. Your ability to integrate various teams in order to manage projects harmoniously will be valued greatly. Such organizations know how to provide a professional such as yourself with the opportunity to manage in order to successfully continue developing their core business.
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. Management time is a very precious resource, yet reaching consensus among colleagues and team members is a rather involved process. At times, you might prefer reaching decisions quickly, even without the unanimous agreement of others. In these cases, you realize that the quality of a decision is not simply based on the agreement of others, but also more importantly on the speed with which they are taken. In order to save precious management time and to shorten the decision making process, consider developing your potential as a Producer.
Your potential
management skills
You prefer holding meetings to consult others on important decisions. However, your EMQ responses indicate that you are careful to limit these encounters to the professional exchange of ideas within specific time limits. Such productive teamwork will not only preserve the supportive atmosphere you have created but also will promote the achievement of your goals. All of this can assist in your development as a well-rounded manager.
New Directions
With every stage of advancement in your career, you will find yourself developing new management skills. In order to advance to more senior positions in the future, you should develop your Producer managerial style. In order to accomplish this, it is important to realize that the life of a manager includes both nurturing team members as well as coping with their expressions of dissatisfaction. In order to improve your achievements, do not insist that everyone must agree on all issues all of the time. These new directions will help you develop the ability to assume more complex management roles at the senior level.
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.
