Professional Persona Narrative Bcom 314

MY PROFESSIONAL PERSONA NARRATIVE SULAIMAN ALASOUSI
Introduction Culture Map

in order to further improve and understand my Considering my richest three Culture Map
professional persona, I completed a self-assessment preferences from my self-assessment, the results
and sent out an Outside Leadership Communication for myself turned out to be deciding, trusting, and
Evaluation (OLCE) survey to people I interact with evaluating. With that being said, my OLCE
professionally. This helped me to get an overview of respondents considered me as evaluating,
my professional communication style and how I am disagreeing, and trusting.
being perceived by others. With that being said, in
this narrative, using my self-assessment and the With a yellow bar represents my self-assessment
OLCE, I will be discussing my results for PeopleStyle, Culture Map results, and a red bar represents my
Culture Map, Core Values, and the surprising OLCE respondents’ results. Below, is a bar chart that
responses as well as the most important takeaways. demonstrates the differences between my self-
assessment and my average OLCE results.
PeopleStyle
Based on my self-assessment, for the PeopleStyle, I
identified myself to be analytical. However, my OLCE
respondents showed an interesting diversity for my
PeopleStyle. I have been identified as an amiable,
expressive, and driver. All of my OLCE respondents
identified me differently and none of them identified
me to be analytical as I did.
Since I am bilingual, and the OLCE was sent to people

with different first languages. Therefore, I think the
reason my PeopleStyle results were very random is
that I tend to have different personalities depending
on the language I am speaking with other people.
Taking into consideration that the definition of
Significant Culture Map Differences & Similarities
professionalism might differ between different
As it is shown in the Culture Map bar chart, there are
languages and cultures. differences for each Culture Map category. However,
the most significant key difference was Deciding.
Below, is a scatter plot that illustrates my results for
With that said, overall, all the other results were close
my PeopleStyle from both my self-assessment and my to each other and similar.
OLCE respondents. The yellow star represents my
self-assessment result, whereas the red points
Deciding
represent my results from my OLCE respondents.
The Deciding scale refers how group decisions are
made. On my self-assessment, I got a high score,
which means I prefer to have a leader to make our
group’s decisions. However, my score for this scale
was low on my OLCE results. This means that I prefer
consensus-based decision making.
I believe this significant difference is because my

OLCE results were based on team contributions and
how I am being perceived by other team members.
Often, in a team work, we make decisions as a team.
Therefore, my OLCE respondents will more likely to
perceive me as person who prefers consensus-based
decision making. However, I personally prefer to pick
a truly knowledgeable leader to make the group’s
most important decisions.
MY PROFESSIONAL PERSONA NARRATIVE SULAIMAN ALASOUSI
Surprising Responses
Similarities The most surprising responses were my PeopleStyle
With having Deciding as the most significant results. It was interesting to see how other people
difference between the Culture Map scales, the other view me differently. I personally wasn’t expecting this
scales did not show any major differences. This is much diversity in my OLCE responses. This made me
simply because my self-assessment results were begin to think and question; why each respondent
based on myself and not how other people perceive identified different? Also, why none of them
me. Therefore, I will be more likely to apply what I identified me as an analytical which is what I have
think my preferences are in my team work which identified myself with? The only answer I had for this
results in being perceived with the similar Culture question is because of my how I present and express
Map preferences. myself to them based on the language I am speaking.
For example, I talk and express my thoughts more
Core Values when I speak my native language, however, I like to
Working in a team environment, I aim to maximize think more than talking when I speak English.
both successfulness and satisfaction of the team.
Therefore, I truly value respect, as I think it is a key Key Takeaways
contributor to the team members’ satisfaction to The most important lesson I learned from my analysis
remain in the team. Loyalty is another core value, this for this narrative is how important and effective is to
is because when team members are loyal, take my core values into consideration and apply it
commitment and hard work will be presented from all into my team work experiences. With that in mind,
team members which could create higher chances to applying my core values into my recent work
succeed. in addition to this, I significantly value hope experiences resulted in being perceived by others in
as I think it will give the chance for the team to a way that aligns with my core values. With this said,
develop a growth-mindset that aims for constant I did not notice how true this is until it has been
success. proved by their responses for my OLCE survey.
With that being said, My OLCE respondents were Moving forward, I aim to set specific core values for
asked to list my core values as well as their first words myself before being part of any team-work
when they think about me based on their interaction experiences. By doing this, my teammates will notice
with me. Their responses to my core values were not how I truly care about my core values which will
very different from my self-assessment answers. This control and change their interactions as well as
is because of how I truly care about my core values, behaviors with me to the better and contributing to a
as I was able to prove my core values to my better team environment.
respondents without purposely showing my core
values. In conclusion, this narrative helped me better
understand my professional persona brand,
Common Core Value Themes especially when it comes to how other people
Below, is a word cloud that shows common responses perceive me. Through utilizing my self-assessment
for my core values from my respondents in addition and the OLCE survey results, I was able to notice some
to my core values from my self-assessment. randomness for my PeopleStyle results. However, my
Culture Map and Core Values results from my self-
assessment were consistent with my OLCE results. In
addition to this, I discussed how surprising my
PeopleStyle results were. Lastly, I discussed my
biggest takeaway from this narrative and how
important it is to show my core values to my team for
a positive team environment. For any questions,
please email me at [email protected]

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MY PROFESSIONAL PERSONA NARRATIVE SULAIMAN ALASOUSI

Introduction Culture Map

Since I am bilingual, and the OLCE was sent to people

I believe this significant difference is because my

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