Zach Hills

Executive Summary Activity

As I begin to move into more professional circles, I need to strengthen my professional persona in order
to be successful. This document summarizes my communication style, where discrepancies lie between
how I am perceived and how I try to present myself, and overall takeaways in order to strengthen my
desired professional persona. My research has shown that how I wish to present myself seems to differ
from how others perceive me. In order to come to this conclusion, I have analyzed my PeopleStyles,
Culture Map, and feedback from my peers.

PEOPLESTYLE
According to my personal PeopleStyles analysis, I am an
expressive. Expressives tend to have both high
assertiveness and responsiveness, which I believe was how
I personified myself to others as I try to be very people
oriented and I am not afraid to state my opinion.
However, based on the graph created from my
respondents data, I am a driver, with a close border to
expressiveness. 5 of my 6 respondents said that I was a
driver, with 3 of the 5 having the same score denoted by
the star on the graph. My personal point is denoted by the
triangle, and the major difference is in my responsiveness.
This leads me to believe that I am far less people oriented
than I thought I was, a discrepancy I intend to improve, as
I strive to come off as personable and approachable.
These discrepancies are not as noticeable within my
culture map except for my scheduling and communication
score.
EXPRESSIVE
CULTURE MAPS
Within my culture map, 6 of my 8 categories seem to be moderately
similar, meaning how I perceive myself is similar to how others
perceive me. However, my communication and scheduling score are
very different. This shows that overall, the 2 places that I need to
focus my efforts to are:
Communication: My score for communication reflected that I tended
to use more layered and subtle communication, However, from the
score that I received from my respondents, I seem to have a blend of
both types of communication. I would attribute this to adapting to
different environments. In a work setting, I may be more prone to
sharp, concise communication, but in an academic setting, more
nuanced and sophisticated communication is more the norm.
Scheduling: This score was my largest discrepancy, with my scores
being on the opposite side of the spectrum. Personally, I did not think
that my personal assessment of a 4 (Flexible timelines) reflected my
scheduling tendencies, so my score of .5 (strict timelines) from my
respondents made more sense. I tend to keep to a strict schedule with
little wiggle room, which seems to be perceived accurately by my
peers. I believe that my artificially high scheduling score may have
been a mistake due to inflating extremely specific instances of me
not keeping to a schedule.

DRIVER
 TAKEAWAYS

My biggest insight that I have gained from looking

PEERS at my 360 and OLCE evaluations is that I am
CORE VALUES
RESONSIBILITY generally perceived to be honest and hardworking
My peers concluded with me that
INTEGRITY by my peers. I am happy that this is the case, as this
one of my core values is hard work,
means that my peers are perceiving me in a way
but the core value that all my
that I hope for. However, many of the respondents
respondents touched on was
honesty and integrity, as well as
HONEST have noted that I can be a little unapproachable
or intense. I plan to continue to work on this, as I
responsibility. I am happy that all
strive to be an approachable and friendly figure,
my peers consider me an honest FUN both in my friendships and professional settings. I
and hardworking individual, as FLEXIBILITY can improve this by being a little more people
hardworking and honest are 2 of
SELF oriented, and asking questions and opinions rather
my core values, however, I also put
than making statements.
fun as one of my core values, so I
For my professional video, I want to hone in on
plan to work more in showing that.
being friendly. My other traits seem to come across
DESCRIPTIONS
Motivated well, so they will not be a main focus for me.
Along with my core values being

Honest perceived consistently throughout

When comparing my evaluations of myself vs. my
peers, through culture maps, PeopleStyles, and
my peers, the way they describe
Responsible me is also consistent. My peers
peer responses, I found that while most responses
were similar, except for 2 areas. This tells me that I
Organized described me with the words
shown to the left, with words like
generally present myself the way I want, but have 2
areas where I may not be as self aware. Overall,
Intelligent motivated, organized, and
intelligent. These words work well
my actions to craft my professional personnel are
working to convey my core values, which will be
Hard Working with my core values, with quotes
even more effective once I implement small
that I received from my feedback
QUOTES
further explaining my peers'
changes to be perceived as friendlier.

thoughts.
The quotes below were taken from
both my 360 evaluation and my “Your work ethic speaks for itself”
OLCE survey. They suggest what I
am doing well, and what I can

improve on. These responses have “Always honest about what you expect and you always
been an excellent tool in
practice what you preach.”
measuring how well I am crafting
my professional persona, and my

key takeaways. “Your core values and additional values coincide very well.
They reflect each other and make you a very well-rounded
professional.”