RYAN BURGER
ANALYTICAL, TRUSTWORTHY, HARD
CULTURE MAPS
Below is a graph showing the differences
between my self-assesment and the OLCE
culture maps.
Below are the preferences that had a
significant difference between results.
EVALUATING
I view myself as a person who tries to
not hurt anyone’s feelings. However my
score was not representative of this with
a score of 0.67. My peers scored me a
3.50 in this area which I feel is a much
better evaluation of how I give feedback.
I this represents me more because I
don’t want to hurt people’s feeling when
I give them feedback.
TRUSTING
I scored a 2.67 in this area which is on the
middle to relationship-based side of the
scale. I build trust with others in a
combination of sharing down time and
doing tasks together. Although I think of
myself that way, my peers see me to build
trust from people when I work with people
on tasks. They likely see me this way
because I am typically doing school work
with them.
DISAGREEING
In this area I scored myself a 1.67, saying that
I prefer to air my grievances in public, but I
don’t see myself this way. My peers scores is
more representative of how I actually am
being a 3.00 and on the avoiding
confrontation side. The variation of scores is
due the fact that I could have been filling out
the form in the way that I want to be and not
how I am.
WORKING
INTRODUCTION
At the beginning of this school year I took a self-assessment test to
discover my people style and have a look at my culture map. This was
very help when just beginning to be in a groups so I could tailor my
actions and words to the way that each team member preferred.
Throughout the semester, I have gotten a better idea of my
professional persona and have improved it from feedback that I have
received. This document will give you an understanding of who I am
as a business professional and a person. Below, I have analyzed my
self-assessment results and the results of my OLCE survey and will
discuss how they differ from each other.
PEOPLE STYLES
When I took the self-assessment I came out as an expressive person
which I felt like resonated with many in a few aspects but was not
my best fit of people styles. After analyzing my data
from the OLCE survey it was concluded
that peers think of me as having an
analytical people style. This is the people
style that describes me the most because
I feel like I am less assertive and less
responsive in work situations.
My original composite assertiveness score
was a 5.00 and my composite responsiveness
score was a 7.00. According to my OLCE
responses my composite assertiveness and
composite responsiveness were -1.40 and
-2.60 respectively. This further justifies my
OLCE responses in saying that I am an
analytical person. Knowing everyone people styles the entire
semester helped me with knowing how to work with others and how
others work with me.
VALUE I BRING TO A TEAM
Dedicated team member that strives to lead
“Willing to help”
us to success”
“Perseverance”
“Structured and Organized”
“Problem solving skills”
“Contribute to an overall positive working
environment.”
WHAT TO IMPROVE ON
“Take criticism lightly”
“You do not understand the value of your actions so do not underestimate
yourself and be confident in your abilities.”
“Sometimes you appear to be insecure about your ideas or opinions, present
them confidently as you have brilliant ideas.”
PERSUDAING
When I am persuading people I see myself
as using a combination of theory based and
example based evidence to back up my
thoughts. However, my peers think that I
mainly use evidence based to persuade
them. My peers gave me this score because
after thinking, I do tend to use examples
based persuasion.
CORE VALUES
Below I have listed what my peers view as my core values. The Core
Values I have for myself are trustworthiness, dependability, goal
oriented and focused. There are many correlations between what I
view my core values to be and what others view them as. One
difference between the results was being focused. I feel as though I
don’t portray my focused side as much in group settings because I
can get easily distracted in larger groups.

Below are the preferences that did not Communication

have a significant difference between
results.
Honesty
COMMUNICATING
My peers and I agreed that I'm a direct
and clear communicator. This is very Integrity
evident in how I go about doing work.

LEADING
A deviation between scores of 0.43
shows that I clearly show I like to
have a combination of flat and rank
based leadership.
DECIDING
My peers and I agreed that I like to
have a consensus when making a
decision. I am very good at portraying
this to my peers and is shown in
having a low deviation.
SCHEDULING
The consensus between everyone is
that I like to use a combination of both
linear and flexible time.
KEY TAKE AWAY
They key less that I am taking away from the feedback I received was that I need to be more confident in my
opinions and ideas. When I state opinions I tend to not follow through with them if people brush them or don’t
like the idea I will just let it go. I can use this moving forward whenever I state opinions or ideas and standing my
ground more when I do.
Kindness
ADJUSTMENTS TO BE MADE
The adjustment I need to make is ensuring that I am more confident.
I will make this adjustment by making sure everything I say is said
in a confident way. Also, I will make sure that I am totally confident
in an idea before stated it so that it will be easier for me to sound
confident. Making this adjustment will increase my professional
brand because when you state opinions with confidence you sound
smarter and like you know what you’re talking about.
SUPRISING RESPONSES
The response that surprised me the most was that majority of the
people who filled out my survey said that in professional settings I
am more orientated towards facts and logic. This surprised me the
most because I feel like as a person I am more apt to pay attention to
people’s feelings and emotions and ensuring everyone is happy.
Although, I can see how they would perceive this because when it
groups I tend to be more focused on getting the work done and then
when the work is done insure that everyone is happy. The rest of my
response I feel like were a good representation of who I am as a
professional. They identified things about me that I need to realize
and fix.

CONCLUSION
At the beginning of the semester my self-assesment told me that I had an amiable people style. After analyzing
my results it came out that my peers view me as having an analytical people style. Identifying as having an
analytical people is more true to who I actually am and not who I want to strive to be. In this document I went
over the differences between my self-assessment and the OLCE survey and got an indepth idea of my professional
persona. The feedback that I have gotten in this document will help me to me to further improve it. As I advance
in Eller and then into the workforce this will be important knowledge to have so that people view me as a
business professional that they can trust.