Your EMP Report
Welcome to your second EMP Report and congratulations on the work you’ve done so far.
Let’s briefly review your journey:
In Weeks 1-9, you:
1. learned what habits are, how they are formed, and how they influence our lives;
2. discovered that your dominant management style is Administrator;
3. discovered the dominant habits:preventing others from expressing themselves and being less flexible, which had been preventing your hidden potential from flourishing (and keeping you from truly pursuing your career goals);
4. worked through exercises aimed at reducing your dominant habits, making room for your potential to grow;
5. received feedback that helped keep you on track throughout your journey.
For the past six months, you’ve:
1. continued the exercises you began in Weeks 1-9, especially in areas you felt challenged;
2. most likely experienced real progress, even if you still have work to do.
Now, a few words about the Executive Mirror Questionnaire (EMQ).
The first time you filled in the EMQ was in Week 2. In turn, you discovered:
1. your dominant management style;
2. its effects on how you manage;
3. habits typical of your dominant management style;
4. your own hidden potential that would allow you to pursue your career goals;
5. the two key dominant habits that needed to be reduced so as to provide room for your hidden potential to grow.
For this second time of filling in the EMQ, you’ll now receive feedback according to the PEC scale (potential, empowerment, change), emphasizing:
1. your hidden potential;
2. changes that have occurred;
3. overall improvement.
Here’s a detailed explanation of the PEC scale and feedback based on your response to this second EMQ.
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P stands for potential, which describes the progress you’ve made in tapping into your potential management style in order to become a more well-rounded manager. -
E stands for empowerment, which tells to what degree you have empowered yourself with the qualities needed to successfully move forward.
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C stands for change, which helps you understand your own change and your preparedness for future changes.
Your questionnaire responses indicate that you have performed well on the PEC scale. Below are details of each parameter:
Based on your responses to the questionnaire, you’ve increased your awareness of the way habits: preventing others from expressing themselves and being less flexible, influence both your current leadership style and your leadership potential as you move forward.
Using this awareness, you have also begun taking control of your dominant habits, starting to carve out the room needed for your hidden potential to surface and develop. In particular, this has been expressed in the increased autonomy you’ve been providing your team, allowing you to consider strategic decisions more and day-to-day matters less. With this, you will begin to successfully operate in the kinds of complex leadership situations required by more senior leaders.
While you should certainly celebrate your achievements, it is still essential to remain aware that your dominant habits are still lurking, poised to retake control the minute you let your guard down. Despite your progress, your tendency to prioritize existing policies and procedures in the name of efficiency and effectiveness will often still seem the best way to move ahead. This is why continued, consistent work at reducing your dominant habits will always be the key to developing into the best leader possible.
The good news is that the hard work you’ve done so far through the EMP has resulted in a strong base from which you can continue pursuing success. Consistently revisiting the EMP exercises will keep you on track.
Your achievements testify to your capacity to empower yourself through high levels of motivation, self-discipline, consistency, and determination – all qualities of an Administrator. Moreover, you’ve made progress in empowering others on your team, a true sign of change. These qualities will serve you well both directly and indirectly in your future development as a leader. These will help you truly “move the needle” further for yourself and your career, as you continue to develop the untapped potential you need to become a great leader.
From here on, continue practicing the sustained motivation, self-discipline, consistency, and determination you identified and demonstrated while working through the course. Naturally, during especially tense times at work increases, you might find yourself off course from time to time. If you’re patient with yourself, you’ll find it easier to get back on track.
Also, you might be thinking that the end of these nine weeks is the end of your journey – all criteria have been met – whereas in reality, despite all of your admirable achievements, you’ve just begun your road to success. You will need to harness many of your Administrator qualities by consistently revisiting and doing the EMP exercises – using the motivation, self-discipline, consistency, and determination you have demonstrated so far.
Based on the responses to your questionnaire, you’ve succeeded in implementing a major change in the way you manage – solid proof of your ability to embrace and handle change professionally. Throughout the course, you received the knowledge and tools to make a real change. Let’s review a bit about what true change is.
Reaching true change means having the ability to plan, act, react, and think in a completely different way than before. Change doesn’t come easily. There’s always a gap between what you’d like to change and what you actually do change. And what can prevent you from bridging this gap is your habits. During the course, you learned some important things about changing habits:
1. It’s really hard to identify your dominant habits because they are subconscious and therefore automatic. As an Administrator, for example, you’ve learned over the years that the best way to get something done is to strictly follow existing policies and procedures – that’s your default setting. No doubt though, through the EMP, you’ve now developed an awareness of your dominant habits. You may even be able to identify them after certain behaviors – but seldom before.
2. Your dominant habits can prevent your potential from emerging and developing. To really “move the needle,” it’s essential to provide your team with more autonomy.
One of the dangers lurking behind change is that even when you think you’ve made significant changes, you can often slide back into your old habits. As an Administrator, you’re procedure-oriented, so it might seem as if you’ve “done your job,” so to speak. However, it’s important to stop and realize that in reality, at this point, though you’ve actually demonstrated the ability to develop your potential habits – they’re far from being permanent. That’s why it’s important to work so hard at ingraining these new habits into your everyday behavior. At a certain stage, you’ll actually notice that your new habits have become dominant. I call this the “lock in stage”. Until this happens, though, you’ll want to watch out for reverting to your old dominant habits.
Knowing how to successfully negotiate change is a highly-valued management skill and once you fully achieve it, it will serve you well in the future as you advance in your career. Successfully negotiating change is a highly-valued management skill and will serve you well in the future as you advance in your career.
Your performance in the EMP has placed you among other successful managers who have the drive and tools to advance, especially in three areas: potential, empowerment, and meaningful change. You are now well on your way to achieving your career aspirations.
At this point, it’s important to emphasize that you have come a long way on your journey towards implementing change, but there’s still more you can do. Keep checking in with yourself regarding your dominant habits of preventing others from expressing themselves and being less flexible, and when you feel comfortable, look for other dominant habits that might need your attention, too.
Good luck!
