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
As you see things, good management involves keeping your eye on the goal. You see leading others as similar to navigating a ship through rough seas, in which you must do everything possible to ensure that the ship reaches its destination swiftly and safely. For you, the captain of a ship must always remain at the helm, providing immediate solutions in order to avert disaster.
While you are highly engaged in the day-to-day work of your team, you risk being perceived as a micromanager who stifles responsibility and ownership among team members. By consistently preventing others from expressing themselves and excessively relying on informal communication channels, you reinforce this negative image. Moreover, as a results-oriented manager, the frequent “shortcuts” you take and encourage can create an impression of a leader who is at times chaotic and reckless.
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Both reaching and exceeding goals do not come easy – and your team members are well aware of this. The challenging work environment that you create encourages them to strive for their best at all times. They’ve learned from you that there is no such thing as “problems” – just challenges that can be overcome. Also, they understand that it is important to take quick decisions and to improvise if required. Heavy workloads do not discourage your team members, as you are especially talented at managing such peaks and even increasing your team’s commitment to getting the work done. Above all, you set a personal example of working hard. While you provide clear instructions to your team members, you are less likely to show openness towards alternative ways of reaching goals.
While you consider your team atmosphere dynamic and exciting, your constant shift in activities in order to conquer the next challenge could be perceived as leading the team towards exhaustion and burnout and thus, in the long-term, doomed to failure. Your explicit instruction and guidance of your team could run the risk of creating team members who are unable to think for themselves, thus hindering their professional development.
The heightened pace at which you require your team members to work is highly admired by those who are able to keep up and less appreciated by those who are trying to catch their breath. You view team members who follow organizational procedures to the letter as lacking in self-confidence. Your ability to “think on your feet” and sprint towards results can dampen the confidence of others. Sometimes, it seems as if the faster you move forward, the more they hold back, insisting on following procedures.
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, complacency is the “silent killer” of any organization. Your lack of tolerance for this, along with the intensive workload that you manage, are not viewed upon favorably by some of your colleagues. This is especially true when they are basking in the achievement of a challenging goal, you are already scouring around for a new mountain to climb. Sometimes, as you are trying to figure out the quickest and most efficient way to reach the peak of a mountain, you see your colleagues wasting time on useless procedures and office politics.
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 a Producer, your optimal work environment would be an organization that is currently not taking advantage of its business potential. Perhaps the organization is not focused or is simply stuck. In addition, start-ups, whose primary goal is to penetrate new markets and establish themselves, will appreciate your drive towards focusing on and achieving goals. In contrast, heavy, conservative organizations might not be the best fit for you. In order to realize your potential, you should seek an organization with confidence in your abilities, allowing you both independence and flexibility.
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 EQM responses indicate that your potential managerial style is Administrator. Management time is a limited resource and your responses indicate that you are highly aware of this. While you find yourself handling urgent tasks, you would like to create more time for prioritization and developing clear processes that would allow for the handling of future challenges. Your workload forces you to handle either urgent or long-term tasks, though it is important to address both of these. In order to allocate managerial time for prioritizing and planning, you should develop your Administrator potential management style.
Your potential
management skills
Your EQM responses indicate that your potential managerial style is Administrator. This allows you not only a bird’s eye view of the organization’s inner-workings but also how you can use this view to streamline processes for improved results. Dedicating time for the development of clear processes and procedures to improve the achievement of results will enable team members to work independently. This will allow you to develop as a manager who knows how to manage both the big picture as well as detailed processes.
New Directions
Career advancement will require that you develop your management talents. You will find yourself dealing less with day-to-day challenges and relying on others to handle these. Utilizing your planning abilities will provide team members with clear strategies and procedures, which will require less of your intervention. This will enable you to collaborate more efficiently with other departments. Also, you will develop as a manager who knows how to harness the operational strengths of an organization to achieve long-term goals.
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 Administrator.
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save resources by working according to a set workplan;
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see the whole picture and know how to prioritize;
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build teams and encourage teamwork;
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increase efficiency by operating in an organized manner.
