Face to Face
With Fred Coon

Follow Your True Colors To The Work You Love
By: Carolyn Kalil

A review by Fred Coon

This book is powerful in many ways. First, it is a very well-explained roadmap through Carolyn's personal journey of self-discovery and combines that with her personal experiences and examples from her career. That makes for very interesting reading. Second, it provides real-world examples from many points of view that reinforce the assumptions used in establishing the color scheme. Third, it is solidly based in documented statistics from client experience.

As many of you know, I authored a book and am working on two others. One of the most difficult things for me is layout and how the information is to flow to enhance the reader's experience and absorption ability. Carolyn has done a wonderful job of putting the information in a sequence that builds to a complete understanding of the subject being covered.

There were a few areas that struck home with me and I re-read them over and over and then spent a good part of my vacation in Cancun last week thinking about them. They struck a major chord in my thinking. Isn't that what any good book should be designed to do?

In fact, on the way down to Cancun, I gave the two young people next to me the tests and determined their colors and then worked with them to understand their work. I mean, what else did I have to do in the 4+ hours I was sitting there. It was fun, enlightening for them and reinforcing in their understanding of their personal styles and relationship as well.

The book is quick reading and that doesn't mean foo-foo. It means that Carolyn has explained the concepts exceptionally well, supported them with real-world examples, and added her own thoughts and conclusions that make sense.

Overall, I strongly recommend this book to career professionals who wants to work with their clients and, at the same time, wish to employ professional techniques without having to attend a Myers-Briggs training seminar and become testing experts and psychologists.

BTW, I am an Orange.....What are you?

Good Job Carolyn!

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About the Author: Fred Coon