Dylan Quinn
Trustworthy, Passionate Hardworker
Introduction
This document provides deep insight
into how I interact and behave as a
professional. My detailed findings can
be found by comparing all of the data
that I collected through my people
styles, culture maps, and self-
assessment. I'm going to be reflecting
on how I've grown this semester and the
goals that I'm going to set for the
future.
Culture Maps
The results from my graph to the right
are comparing my self-assessment and
OCLE results. As you can see in the
graph, the results are fairly similar in
most categories.
There are two categories that show the
biggest difference between how I see
myself versus how my peers see me.
There are many different categories
that my peers see me differently in than
I see in myself. I will be going into a
deeper dive into these sections that I
consider to be the most valuable areas
that I have to learn about myself. These
areas are consist of evaluating, trusting,
and disagreeing.
People Styles
The results that I received from the self-
assessments state that I'm amiable. Amiable's
are known to be more reserved when giving
input and are strong listeners. While we can be
reserved in giving input, we also can be very
sociable. The results that I received from the
OCLE are vastly different in comparison.
From my results, I got all four different types
of people styles. The people that took these
surveys were two of my sports coaches, two of
my former managers, and a peer. The reason
that I got all four different people styles
different is that I act differently in all these
settings and the people whom I work with. In
sports, I would be more considered a driver,
while at work, I'm more of an expressive. The
results that I got from my self-assessment are
(-1, 7). This means that a low grade on
assertiveness and a high grade on
responsiveness. These scores accurately
portray that I'm amiable in the professional
work setting.
 Core Values
Honestly
Passionate
Trustworthy
These words above are what my peers had to say about
my core values in the OLCE survey. These fit well with
my view of my core value. I try to live by these words on a
daily basis. No matter what the situation is I try to be as
honest as I can be because I would hope that everyone
else would do the same. I am passionate about so many
things whether it be about sports or business.
Trustworthiness is by far my biggest core value. If I say
that I'm going to do something, then I will 100 percent
commit to that thing. I grew up with my dad teaching me
that you can only take people at their word and that has
resonated with me so well.
Evaluating
Evaluating was my biggest difference in comparing my
self-assessment and OLCE. My self-assessment score
was 2.33 and my OLCE responses were 3.2. When I
evaluate I try to give a little bit of both sides. I would
say that the OLCE responses are probably a little more
accurate. I definitely consider emotions when giving
feedback, but at the same time, I don't want to strictly
consider emotion because the feedback sometimes
won't be as strong. I have definitely found the right
balance this semester without hurting anyone's feelings
and providing constructive feedback.
Trusting
I think that at the beginning of the year, I definitely
built trust through both ways, but the more I work in
groups I value building trust through relationships. I
feel like I need to know who you are before I can
start building trust with you. Obviously, I want the
person to finish the work that they have to complete,
but I have to build relationships to trust them. If I
know the person and build that relationship, I will
have a very strong idea if I can trust them or not.
Improvement
There are definitely some things that I still need to work on.
One of those things that I can work on is giving more input
when working in groups. I have a lot of good ideas that would
be beneficial to the team, but sometimes I sit back and see how
everything plays out. I am trying to get better at that. Another
thing that I need to get better at is not memorizing a script as
much. From now on I need to take key bullet points of what
I'm going to talk about and practice it in different ways.
These two areas were the areas that my teammates suggested
that I work on in my 360-degree evaluation,
In my first evaluation, I got a lot of " you should contribute
your ideas more" and " we would like to hear what you had to
say". In the last 360 evaluations where I got only one of those.
It is the area where I have been trying to improve the most. I'm
not where I want to be but I can see the improvement that I
have made so far.
Deciding
When I'm in a group, I have always thought that
consensus-based decisions are the way to go. One
person controlling what goes on in a group is not
something that I want to be a part of and it hurts your
team more having only one person make the decision.
The consensus among the group is way better for the
group. Not only are morals better but also strengthen
our ideas in a workgroup. Working with my team this
semester has only made it more clear that consensus
decision-making is the best option for working as a
team.
What I Have Learned
There are so many things that I have learned about
myself in this class and semester at Eller. After
looking at the result of my self-assessment and also
what my peers wrote about me. I know the areas in
which I grew the most over the course of this class as
well as the areas I need to continue of improving on.
This feedback that I obtain through the semester is
something I can use for the rest of my life and
enhance my professional persona with.