What is the likelihood that you and I are identical physically—with the same set of skills and the level of capability? Although the number above is accurate and statistically precise, we can see a similar indication of uniqueness by building a model that computes how many people have lived on this planet since the beginning of human time.
You can study the formula we used in the appendix of this book. The estimated number is staggering: 68 billion total humans may have lived and died on this planet. Each one of us is unique, both in the nature of Who we are and also What we are.

It is this very uniqueness both in physical and spiritual nature that causes us to have the same universal call; the call to be our unique selves and to find our unique place in the lineage of Man and in the habitation of Earth. We all have the questions alive within us: Who am I? What am I? Why am I here? We each have an unremitting drive to make a worthwhile contribution. It is part of our creature survival mechanism. It is part of our spiritual urge that makes us all humans. We also each have a unique mixture of core spiritual energies to contribute. These are what make up our Contributor Type.
We now can provide significant evidence that helps each of us characterize and even quantify Who we are (our unique Real Core Values Self) and What we are (our physical attributes, capabilities, talents, and skills).
This information about Who we are and What we are join together to provide clear guidance about the question, Why am I here?
Who I am is a unique recipe of core values capacities that work together to cause my presence in society to be unique and to be useful.
What I am provides the skills and capabilities to express, or to deliver who I am to society. We include in the What I am composite the adapted personality or learned behavior patterns. Read more about this in our Human Operating System Manual and in my book, Choices.

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When my sons were young, their different Core Values Natures made themselves apparent early on. The one incident that most clearly demonstrates this happened on a driving vacation when they were six and seven years old. We stopped on a very hot day at a very large swimming pool in a very small town in South Dakota.
The swimming pool was called the largest swimming pool in the country.
It was huge, with an expansive wading area and swimming zones for skilled swimmers. We played for a while together as a family in the shallow end. Then as we parents retreated to our towels and the warm sunshine, our two guys began exploring the entire pool. Doug, who is a profound merchant love person with high creativity, proceeded to climb the high-dive ladder as he had been watching the older children do.
Before I could get up and hold him back, he was running the length of the diving board, twenty feet above the water, and throwing himself off in a poorly executed dive. He smacked into the water hard enough that he looked like he had a sunburn when he pulled himself out of the pool.
In the meantime, my older son, Greg, age seven, sat quietly at the edge of the deep end of the pool, watching the older kids dive. After sitting there for almost an hour, he got up slowly, walked over to the low diving board. He walked to the end of the board, pushed his hands up over his head and tossed himself forward in a not-too-bad dive.
In their later years I watched Doug’s willingness to throw himself into new experiences become a real strength, and I watched Greg’s tendency to sit back and observe and cogitate, become a real challenge for him in some adult situations.
This is as it is for all of us.
Our greatest strengths become our greatest weaknesses, because we get comfortable approaching life in our most preferred manner, choosing unconsciously to be our most dominant innate Core Value Energy in situations that we would be more effective in if we were willing to shift into a secondary or third-level Core Values Strategy.

Lynn E. Taylor

We had such an amazing time this past weekend at our VAR Training!
Pictured is Chris Obst, President of Jump Results, located in North Vancouver, BC Canada. He offered a testimonial that was direct and to the point:
“Great session. Created a safe, inspiring place. Just the beginning of a fantastic relationship!”

Thank you so much Chris! We are looking forward to working closely with you for years to come.

Also in the picture is Lynn Taylor, President of Taylor Protocols Inc., (standing left). Sitting in front of him are Arne-Per Heurberg of APDOT, LLC located in Seattle, Washington, and Evelyn Kaufman of Journey to Fullness, Inc.. Evelyn travelled all the way from Kentucky to attend!

All attendees are now certified CVI coaches/trainers and members of our Value Added Relationship (VAR) program.

Click here:
http://bit.ly/take_the_cvi to take the revolutionary CVI for free and experience this unique assessment for yourself!

All coaches, business consultants, HR services professionals, Training and recruiting and permanent placement specialists—all of you are invited to participate with Taylor Protocols as we forever change the way people relate to their work, and the way businesses relate to their people. Putting every person in the right seat doing the right work is not just smart, it’s humane.

Add the Taylor Protocols and our unmatched Core Values Index™ to your branding and service offerings. Make more money, get constant world-class executive coaching from our master VARs, and lift yourself to your highest and best contribution. We will make you masters of the CVI, a resource from whom companies can obtain the best practice business tools for hiring, commissioning, training, developing and honoring employees around the world.

We are already represented in more than 10 countries, translated into four languages and being used in more than 1000 companies around the world.

Our VARs introduce us at the right time into their client companies. We do our work and send our VARs their share of the project fees, plus all future project fees in that company, plus hiring fees– all without any additional effort or cost for our VARs.

Bottom line?

Our VAR Certification & Licensure process will:

T each the fundamental understanding of the Core Values Index™.

E xpose you to our “Best Practice Coaching Model” that can be applied to any individual or people system.

A pply practical experience using the CVI™ showing you how to gain a higher level of human consciousness for the individuals, teams or any people system in your circle of influence.

C ause a shift in understanding between the “Gold Standard” behavioral assessments and associated hiring tools, and our new system of understanding what we call Core Value Consciousness™ & our Pre-Hiring Sciences™.

H elp you increase revenue and effectiveness by providing user status to the 80/20 Protocol Suite™

Ultimately …your success in using the CVI™ depends on your capacity to integrate the CVI™ in your company. As part of our certification training, we end the second day with a “Business Development Workshop” which will help you design-in how you will utilize the CVI™ in your bag of tools and use it to open up more business for yourself.

Contact us today for a complimentary consultation at 206-283-8144 to discuss how this program might benefit you.

We come into this world with just three things:
1 What we are: Our talented physical presence, which includes mental, psycho- logical, and emotional attributes, including our adapted personality.
2 Who we are: Our innate un- changing nature, a unique recipe of core values energies, and…
3 Time: The time we are given to be who we are, and to make our highest and best contribution.

Throughout our lives there is one thing we do over and over again; we make choices. We observe the circumstances in our surroundings, and we choose what action to take or we choose not to take action. Acting or not acting are both choices we make.
We observe or choose not to observe the results of our chosen actions and our new circumstances. Then we choose again what action to take. We all do some of this consciously. But most of us do most of this reactively, without conscious acknowledgment or thought.
Acceptance of the simplicity of life as described above greatly increases
the difficulty of life. Why?
If I accept that I only do one thing, and that one thing is to make choices, then I must also accept that the current circumstances of my life are the result of the choices I have made. Being accountable for my own life is irritating and difficult.
It is apparent when looking at my life that I have made many less–than-effective choices. Accepting this also is difficult. Learning how to make choices today in a different way than I made choices yesterday is difficult. Learning how to observe life, people, and circumstances from a different perspective, so that I can make different choices today, is frustratingly difficult.
Learning to accept responsibility for the state of my life tomorrow is frightening and difficult.
Maybe this is why M. Scott Peck in his first major work, The Road Less Traveled, began that book with the words, “Life is difficult.”
I don’t know about you, but I have not found life to be easy or fair.
We humans are not equally endowed physically, mentally, emotionally, or even psychologically, nor are we given an equal beginning. We are born into a variety of cultures, economic situations, and family circumstances. Some of these environmental situations are friendly and nurturing. Some are hazardous to health and happiness.
However, there is one level of fairness that does exist: we are all given the power to choose how to respond to life’s circumstances.
We long for fairness in the life situations described above. We struggle against the fact that our lives are what they are as a result of choices we have made and that we have the power to change our lives by simply making different choices.
Do you want total responsibility for the level of happiness in your life?

If we are not conscious of a negative attitude that is limiting our performance, we are not able to decide to think differently. If we don’t learn to think and believe differently, we will not act differently, and we will never get different results. If we cannot see and appreciate the different Core Values Nature of others, we cannot make adult adjustments in our communications, interactions, and participation with others.

What we don’t know about ourselves limits our ability to work with others in a team and frustrates us in our desire to move forward. We have to continuously increase the understanding of our basic nature and the behaviors that we practice, due to our innate values, in order to be successful and find fulfillment in our work.

We must also become aware of the personality/fear-based reactions that we rely upon and that we have well-rationalized in our adult life. These patterns of behavior, our learned adaptive behaviors, represent only a warped version of our Real Core Values Nature™. Learning to see this, and learning how to make more conscious choices about our reactions to certain kinds of people in certain kinds of circumstances provides a whole new world of conscious choices. This is the personal development purpose and contribution of the Core Values Index.

2. I highly recommend the VAR training for organizational consultants, coaches, and mental health professionals.

Jeff

Leadership Consultant

Brian Rutherford of Taylor Protocols (left) and Jeff Mattson of Living Wholehearted (right)

I am so excited about the changes we have made to how the Core Values Index™ (CVI™) report is viewed and shared that I feel called to share it with you.

Below you will find a link to the FREE version of the CVI! Yes, FREE! With this FREE version you can share the CVI with those you care most about, and begin building deeper more intentional and understanding relationships based on the CVI.

Click here to try it, and see what I am so excited about:

http://bit.ly/take_the_cvi

If you have already taken the CVI assessment you will be prompted to have your report sent to you in our new and updated format. Once you have seen the new CVI report you will want to share it, and I want you to feel free to share it as much as you would like.

Best regards,
Lynn E. Taylor
The CVI Guy™
Phone 206-283-8144
lynn@taylorprotocols.com

Learn about our Top Performer Profiles in this 3 minute video we just created!

November 19, 2012

Dear Colleague,

My name is Scott Kuffel. I am the Superintendent of Geneseo United School District in Geneseo, IL. I have a deep interest in equipping every teacher in my district to be the best they can be; delivering the highest level of education to our students.

In June of 2012, we invited Taylor Protocols to bring their Leadership Training Profile™ to our district and work with 60 teachers and principals in the area of leadership development. Our intention was to further develop our leadership teams to carry out the strategic initiatives of our district through better team interaction.

A subsequent training was conducted in August of 2012 with a ‘Train the Trainer’ model where I brought 15 of my top leadership staff back into the room to be certified in the best standard practice of coaching using the Core Values Index™. My intention was to have a small cadre of coaches that would be prepared to carry out learning opportunities with other teachers and students in the district.

Taylor Protocols recently spoke with me to learn about the progress we have made in our district as a result of working with them. Below are my responses. I hope you find them useful.

What was the overall impact from taking your lead teachers and administrators through the Leadership Training Profiles^TM?

“We felt like a shade was lifted! Our communication awareness has increased and in turn evolved into a greater appreciation of each other. We are more aware of ourselves as individuals and how we work/fit together. We now understand we are capable of much more when we honor each other’s Core Values. Most importantly, we are designing and delegating project tasks to individuals that are in alignment with their Core Values. The effect this has had on morale and productivity is amazing.”

What is happening with the 15 CVI™ Trained Specialists?  Are they starting to work with Teachers and Students on the Best Standard Practice process that we taught them?  What are the results?

“We are currently doing 3 follow up work sessions with each of the 15 individuals in preparation for them working with groups of teachers and students in the district next semester. Thus far, the response has been very positive. This has gone better than anticipated. We believe we have a grass roots level personal and professional optimization that is happening amongst the teachers in our district that have been exposed to the CVI™ so far.”

What have you noticed about job/task assignments now that you have a better understanding of how your staff is wired?

“We have restructured our leadership teams and community task force. Every leadership team has defined assignments, roles and tasks associated with the projects that have been assigned. Meetings are structured around the Core Values to honor everyone’s contribution types. This has also resulted in restructuring work plans and targets to boost performance. Overall, there is more clarity and intention around projects in the district.

I’ve also restructured a position in my cabinet by taking a collection of tasks off one person’s desk and placing them on another person’s desk. This resulted in not needing to hire an additional body. This alone is a fantastic return on our investment from our work with Taylor Protocols.”

Can you quantify any return on your investment? 

“Yes, I absolutely can! We downsized from 6 clerical staff to 4 and have no need to add additional bodies based on optimizing the assigned tasks of each person. In addition, we did not replace a director level position carrying an annual salary of roughly 100k. These savings directly fall back into the districts spending budget – a 33% reduction in workforce for clerical and a 33% reduction in central office administration!”

Would you recommend us to other Superintendents? What specific value proposition would you describe to them based on your experience so far?

“Yes, I already have recommended Taylor Protocols to other Superintendents. The greatest value one can have is knowing who they are and what they can bring to an organization. There is no greater value than having this knowledge. There is not a textbook or a technology available to the education community that provides what the CVI reveals to us. This has been the best tool I’ve seen from start to finish with this kind of scientific, reliable information that is directly tied to human interaction and productivity.”

I believe that working with Taylor Protocols and the CVI™ will completely transform your organization.  I can’t think of a better way to become familiar with the Core Nature of the people you lead.  The results are there, and we expect to take this even further to our student population.  We imagine introducing every incoming Freshman to their Core Values Nature™ and use this understanding as a way to better prepare our students to know how and where they can make their highest and best contribution to their world.

Consider working with Taylor Protocols in your district.  They are a sharp outfit, and have created the most powerful assessment tool I have ever seen!

Regards,

Scott Kuffel
Superintendent of Geneseo United School District