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Where did Straight Talk come from? |
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 Maureen
Collins has a B Sc degree in Psychology from Edinburgh University and
over 20 years of management and consulting experience in the African
corporate world. She started her career in the mining industry with
Anglo American in Zambia before coming to South Africa in 1976 to join
AECI. She then worked for Afrox and the Barlow’s Group before joining
the FSA Contact consulting group in1985. From 1995 to 2006 she was an Associate of Gateways Business Consultants. She now consults independently as Straight Talk.
Maureen has consulted extensively in the chemical and manufacturing
sectors and in other organisations such as Telkom, SARS, Harmony Gold
Mining Company and TFMC. Her current clients include Wesbank,
Safmarine, Rand Air, Aberdare Cables, Ovations, Johannesburg Securities
Exchange, Nedbank, Development Bank of South Africa, Gauteng Department
of Health, and Multichoice.
Maureen’s experience is in management and leadership training;
teambuilding, and handling change and transition. She has trained
managers extensively in performance management. The challenge of
improving the quality of performance feedback given by managers to
their employees lead to her interest in the field of emotional
intelligence as a means of improving communication in the corporate
world.
In designing the Straight Talk material she has drawn on her own
experience and a broad range of resources to help people improve their
communication skills in the difficult conversations they encounter in
their professional and personal lives.
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