Roger Taylor

YouMap Certified Coach, volunteer with Crossroads Career Services and, community volunteer providing career coaching. Each person is unique. No one else has the same combination of experience, values, abilities, and interests. Career fulfillment happens when your work requires doing what you do best that you truly enjoy. This is true whether you are seeking a job/career change or, wanting insights on how to address challenging situations in your current role. I help people discover and describe how they bring value. This is key to understanding the right of work to pursue or, your right approach to successfully addressing challenging issues in your job. Someone else’s effective approach to a challenge may be wrong for you while your effective approach may be wrong for them. The same is true for seeking employment. You probably already know that every job is not suited for every person but, do you know what types of jobs are likely to bring you success and enjoyment? I enjoy coaching people in understanding how they bring value, a product of their experience, personal values, abilities, and interests. One of my favorite stories is about someone that upfront said “I don’t know why someone would hire me”. Through working together to understand their abilities and interests with examples from their experiences they realized that accomplishments they had viewed as unremarkable were actually examples of their abilities in action (abilities are not job specific and are the “it” employers desire). This produced confidence in creating a compelling resume that led to interviews resulting in beating out more experienced candidates to win a job in their target field. In my corporate career many of my assignments involved turning around under performing teams. Weak performing teams with a lack of unity and trust among members became strong performing units with members having pride in their work and respect for each other. Functional teams that counterproductively sparred with