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DOUG JAMES TAYLOR

Paralegal Licensee, Commissioner of Oaths and Notary Public. An Experienced Business Professional with a Finance - Insurance - Tech and HR background.

Doug J Taylor

Doug James Taylor

Paralegal Licensee, Commissioner of Oaths and Notary Public.
An Experienced Business Professional with a Finance - Insurance - Tech and HR background.

I am results driven and adept at establishing rewarding relationships through interpersonal skills, with a passion for a client-centric approach to service.
A Class P1 Paralegal in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario, seeking opportunities to make a positive contribution to improving access to justice.
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DemonstratedEmployability Skills

My demonstrated employability skills and core competencies define my value proposition.
The results of numerous and extensive self-awareness and team feedback exercises inform
my employability skills and demonstrated core competency values.

  • 360° Feedback
  • Gallup Strength Finders
  • O*NET Interest Profiler
  • Sales Pro
  • Target Training International
  • The Self Management Group Personal Orientation Profile (POP)
  • Thematic Vocabulary Assessment Test (T.V.A.T.)
  • Type Focus
  • Uniact Interest Inventory

DemonstratedCore Competencies

My demonstrated employability skills and core competencies define my value proposition.
The results of numerous and extensive self-awareness and team feedback exercises inform
my employability skills and demonstrated core competency values.

Overview

  • Astute written and verbal communicator.
  • Capacity to collaborate and negotiate with multi-disciplinary parties.
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate, prioritize and dissemiboldnate information.
  • Ability to manage fiduciary responsibilities with high level of confidentiality and ethics.
  • Aptitude to leverage critical thinking and creativity skills to negotiate and resolve problems.
  • Technologically proficient in developing internal software knowledge, spreadsheets, databases and digital media.
  • Committed to professional development through continuous personal learning.

Business Acumen

  • Understands the key business fundamentals, industry levers, the drivers of the financial health and viability.
  • Indentifies what constitutes opportunity to the organization.
  • Assesses the degree of risk in plans and actions, recognizing the need to disinvest in a situation, having insight and appreciation of client needs, priorities, goals, competitive advantage.
  • Ensures that all controllable factors support the profitability and growth objectives.
  • Understands the fundamental value drivers within the organization.
  • Devises goals, objectives, and performance measures to increase shareholder value in spite of business or personal risk.
  • Proposes and/or leads initiatives that can make a dramatic impact on the business unit/organization profitability.
  • Undertake process re-engineering or may create unique, high-value services to meet customer needs.
  • Consistently acts in the interests of the organization.

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Client Relationship Management

  • Acts to support business development, ongoing management, and retention.
  • Ability to manage total relationships with internal and/on external customers/clients by creating management systems to anticipate, assess, and meet their needs in a mutually beneficial matter.
  • Takes action to manage expectations.
  • Leverages relationships to create opportunities that would not have existed otherwise.
  • Focuses management of the relationships to develop support for a new major opportunity of mutual benefit.
  • Called upon by clients and others to provide trusted advice and guidance that impacts overall business direction.

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Conflict Management and Resolution

  • The ability to negotiate and resolve disputes.
  • Handles difficult people and situations with tact and diplomacy.
  • Identifies potential conflicts and proactively bringing disagreements into the open to help diffuse and address the conflict.
  • Encourages debate and constructive open discussion.
  • Negotiates and facilitates win-win solutions in conflict situations.
  • Brings latent or unresolved conflict within the team out into the open.
  • Willing to confront others as appropriate and approaches conflict situations as an opportunity to strengthen interpersonal relationships.
  • Understands the needs and values of team members and positions people for success by anticipating potential sources of conflict and addressing these needs proactively.

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Impact and Influence

  • An intention and ability to persuade, convince or influence in order to have a specific impact or effect on others, without imposing own views.
  • Facilitates consensus, discussions and resolving conflict.
  • Tailors a presentation or discussion to appeal to the interest and level of others.
  • Anticipates the impact of an action or other detail.
  • Takes two or more distinct actions or steps to influence, with each adapted to the specific audience.
  • Uses experts or other third parties to influence.
  • Assembles political coalitions or builds "behind-the-scenes" support for ideas.

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Organizing, Planning and Resourcing

  • Plans for the right level and type of resources for current and projected work requirements (including external resources).
  • Identifies talented staff based on demonstrated abilities, availability, career aspirations and business knowledge.
  • Provides a work environment, facilities and equipment to support team effectiveness.
  • Develops strategies, plans, causes of action to utilize resources in new and different ways to maximize value to the business.
  • Initiates collaborative efforts with functional staff areas, business partners, and others to enhance resource availability and deployment.
  • Preserves and increases the value of the available resources.

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Strategic Business Planning

  • Develops, links and communicates long-range visions, goals or plans to support achievement of business goals.
  • Translates visions and strategies into frameworks/broad tactical plans, and communices their applicability.
  • Prepares and reviews contingency plans for problems and situations that might occur.
  • Redesigns the department and/or organization to better meet long-term objectives.
  • Establishes and implements a course of action to accomplish a long-term goal or vision.
  • Acts in accordance with vision and works with others to obtain commitment to a shared view of the desirable future state of the business, department or organization.

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Top WeightedPeer RatedSkillsand Endorsements.

Top Weighted Peer Rated Skills and Endorsements fromLinkedIn

  • Administrative Law
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Criminal Law
  • Document Drafting and Review
  • High Level Of Confidentiality
  • Legal Writing and Research
  • Provincial Offences
  • Risk Management
  • Small Claims

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DOUG JAMES TAYLOR

Paralegal Licensee, Commissioner of Oaths and Notary Public. An Experienced Business Professional with a Finance - Insurance - Tech and HR background.

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