VICTORIA

BENNEN
PROFESSIONAL PERSONA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION
In this professional persona executive
summary, I will be providing a better
understanding of how I present myself in
professional settings based on input given by
myself and my peers. I sourced these
findings from several evaluations including a
self-perception survey, a professional
reputation survey, and team 360
evaluations.
Throughout this essay, I will be analyzing
and synthesizing these findings in order to
provide a comprehensive understanding of
my professional persona. This executive
summary is important and essential to my
network because it will allow me to be able
to better connect with relevant career
opportunities, inform potential new
coworkers or peers about my work ethic and
personality, and overall provide a better
represent my professional reputation.
My results indicated that I considered myself
less assertive than my network felt I was, my
peers and I agreed that, for the most part, I
am an analytic, and my peers felt strongly
about adjectives that I did not consider to
describe me professionally. This summary
will begin with diving into people styles, then
descriptive adjectives, followed by input by
my peers from 360 evaluations,
improvements I wish to make, my future
goals, and wrapped up with a conclusion.
PEOPLE STYLES
In order to better understand my personal work
and social style in a professional setting, I want to
go over my Self Perception Survey. In the survey,
I identified myself as an analytic. An analytic is a
person who is serious, exacting, indecisive, and
logical in a professional setting. For the most
part, my peers agreed with my results. Three
identified me as analytical while the other two felt
I was a driver. A driver is someone who is
dominating, independent, formal, and practical in
professional environments. Both analytics and
drivers display low responsiveness as their
common denominator. I feel that my experience
in being dismissed in past group projects as well
as having to deal with minor bullying in grade
school had made me less expressive and amiable.
I typically find success in academic validation
which explains my passion for detailed and
accurate work.
Amiable Expressive
Analytical Driver
 NOTABLE ADJECTIVES
The adjectives from my self-perception survey
provide a great way to compare my and my peer’s
views on myself. The results justify my identity as an
analytic. The evidence also proves that my peers
believe I possess qualities that are similar to those of
an analytic. Adjectives such as even-tempered and
problem solver alight with analytical characteristics.
Bellow is a chart that highlights the disparity
between the adjectives I felt I represented and those
that my peers felt I possessed.
PEER FEEDBACK
Receiving feedback from peers is essential to better
understanding one’s strengths and weaknesses. 360
evaluations are great sources of information that
pertain to this goal of feedback. Feedback from my
own evaluations proved that my peers believe I am
assertive and have strong analytical characteristics.
Bellow are two quotes from evaluations given by my
team members:
“VICTORIA IS ALWAYS PREPARED WITH LOGICAL
INFORMATION. SHE TOO TAKES CHARGE WHEN
THINGS NEED TO GET DONE.”
“VICTORIA IS GREAT AT GETTING HER WORK DONE
ACCURATELY AND SHE ALWAYS SHOWS UP.”
IMPROVEMENTS
While I feel I have great professional strengths, I
defiantly would like to try to improve on
weaknesses identified in the results of my self
perception survey. I want to work on adjusting
my professional person to be slightly more
responsive. All of my data points fell into the
negatives in the responsiveness category,
meaning I lack in being social an open in
intimidating, professional settings. Improvement
in this area could open up opportunities to
enhance my networking capabilities, my
presentation skills, and overall professional
reputation.
FUTURE GOAL AND
ASPIRATIONS
After analyzing my constructive criticism and
evaluations, I have come to the realization of
several professional aspirations of mine. In the
future, I would like to continue to strengthen my
goals as an analytic, work on having confidence
in my abilities, and attempt to possess more
responsive characteristics. The accomplishment
of these goals will set me up to be more effective
in the workplace.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion, this executive summary has been
able to analyze and synthesize my professional
persona through self-perception surveys, peer
evaluations, and a professional reputation
survey. These evaluations accurately expressed
that I considered myself less assertive than my
network, my peers and I agreed that I am an
analytic, and my peers felt strongly about
adjectives that I did not consider to describe me
professionally. Overall, these studies have
motivated me to further emphasize my analytical
abilities, improve my self-assurance, and
reactivity to increase my productivity at work