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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:

The gap between your self-perception and the perception of others
Where your untapped potential is hidden
What kinds of opportunities await you

What is a management style?

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.

Dominant Management Style line

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.

Potential management style as an untapped opportunity line

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.

Unlocking Leadership Potential Through the Power of Habits line

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.

Your dominant managerial style is:

Producer

As you see it, great management is about keeping your eye on the goal and steering your team toward success. You approach leadership like navigating a ship through unpredictable waters—always at the helm, ensuring the journey is smooth and the destination is reached efficiently. Your leadership provides stability and direction, empowering your team to move forward with confidence, knowing that you are there to guide and support them.

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What the Mirror reveals about you

Your proactive involvement in your team’s work is commendable, but at times, it may be perceived as a shift away from your strategic leadership responsibilities. This could raise doubts about your ability to steer the team from a broader, long-term perspective. Additionally, your ability to handle crises effectively may lead to a tendency to frame routine challenges as urgent issues, making it more difficult to foster a stable and predictable work environment.

You and your team members:

Achieving and surpassing goals requires dedication and persistence, and your team understands this well. The high-performance environment you cultivate encourages everyone to bring their best efforts. Through your leadership, they’ve learned that challenges are opportunities for growth and that quick decision-making and adaptability are crucial skills. Your ability to manage heavy workloads while keeping the team engaged and motivated is a true strength. By setting a personal example of hard work and dedication, you inspire your team to stay committed. While you provide clear direction, embracing alternative approaches could further enhance your team’s ability to innovate and contribute their ideas.

What the Mirror reveals about you

You thrive in a fast-moving, challenge-driven environment, but the continuous pursuit of new hurdles to overcome may leave your team feeling overwhelmed and fatigued. While your direct guidance provides clarity, it could also unintentionally limit your team’s ability to develop independent thinking and decision-making skills, which are essential for their professional growth.

Reflection on your management style:

The fast pace you set is admired by those who thrive under pressure and can be a learning experience for those who need time to adjust. Your confidence in thinking on your feet and pushing for results is a valuable asset, but it’s also important to ensure that team members feel empowered rather than overwhelmed. Encouraging open discussions and recognizing different working styles will help you balance speed with sustainability. With your ability to adapt and problem-solve, you have the potential to create an environment where efficiency and innovation go hand in hand.

What the Mirror reveals about you

Even though you are a well-regarded and capable manager, certain aspects of your leadership style may create limitations when it comes to career advancement. You may find yourself overlooked for the next promotion, leading to frustration and a need to rationalize management’s decision. Leadership may view your current strengths as highly effective in your role but less aligned with the expectations for more senior positions.

Areas for improvement:

Your drive to keep progressing is one of your greatest strengths—stagnation is not an option in your world. While your relentless pursuit of improvement pushes your organization forward, some colleagues may need time to acknowledge achievements before moving on to the next goal. Finding a balance between celebrating successes and striving for the next milestone can enhance team morale and engagement. Acknowledging the value of structured processes and diverse perspectives can also help you unlock new efficiencies and build stronger collaborations.

Optimal work environment:

To maximize your potential, it’s beneficial to align yourself with an organization that embraces your results-driven mindset. Environments that require focus, quick execution, and strategic breakthroughs—such as dynamic startups or organizations looking to revitalize their business strategy—will appreciate your leadership style. By finding a workplace that values both independence and initiative, you can drive meaningful progress while also feeling supported in your approach.
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What the Mirror reveals about you

Your current work environment plays to your strengths, but as you look towards future leadership opportunities, flexibility and adaptability will be key. Expanding your managerial approach while staying true to your core leadership qualities will help ensure broader career prospects and greater long-term success.

Potential management style as an untapped opportunity line

Your leadership potential is like a valuable asset waiting to be fully realized. By broadening your management approach, you can unlock even more opportunities for growth and impact. Developing an awareness of your evolving leadership style and actively honing it will empower you to reach new heights in your career.

Your potential
management skills

Your EMQ responses indicate that your potential management style is Integrator. You are highly aware of the fact that management time is a very limited resource. Handling urgent tasks seems to be your first priority. This kind of prioritization tends to put aside high-stake responsibilities necessary for effective management. As a manager, you would like to address these high-stake responsibilities, but your workload forces you to concentrate on urgent tasks, when actually you should be handling both urgent tasks and high-stake responsibilities at the same time. In order to allocate your time for high-stake responsibilities, it is recommended that you develop your Integrator management style.

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 Integrator managerial style. Specifically, you should delegate authority, avoid involvement in every single detail, and learn to take a bird’s eye view of management. If you allow subordinates to work more independently, this will free up valuable management time. This precious resource can then be allocated to high-stakes issues. In addition, it will help you develop your skills as a manager who knows how to handle larger and more complex positions.

Key points about your managerial style as reflected through the EMQ™:

Your dominant managerial style is Producer.

Producers:

focus on successfully accomplishing tasks;
concentrate on results more than on procedures;
are highly involved and influential over others;
willingly take on challenges;
do not delegate authority;
work hard and serve as a role model for others;
prioritize tasks at-hand over future strategy;
demonstrate flexibility and the ability to move quickly;
seek shortcuts in order to reach goals;
believe that the ends justify the means;
prefer working alone over collaborating with a team;
might show less openness to the points-of-view of others.

Your potential managerial style is Integrator.

Integrators:

build united teams;
take other’s opinions into consideration, even compromising your own position;
delegate authority;
empower team members;
operate while taking into consideration the wide range of departmental needs.

What’s next?

Now that you’ve learned about your management potential, you’re ready to move on to Week 3, where we’ll use the results of this report to begin your personalized Executive Mirror Program.

In Week 3, you’ll begin to develop your management potential by learning about the first of two dominant habits most likely hindering your career. Throughout the EMP, you’ll be putting these two dominant habits on Habit Watch in order to gradually reduce them.

A quick word about the term “habit”: In the EMP, we use “habit” to represent a chain of micro-behaviors that comprise a habit. The dominant habits we’ve identified for your Habit Watch include the respective micro-behaviors that need to be reduced in order to allow your potential to grow and flourish.

Please open Week 3 to discover which habits you need to reduce and to begin your first Habit Watch.

See you in Week 3!

Your EMQ Report

Producer

Your dominant managerial style is Producer.

Your potential managerial style is Integrator.