Straight Talk® Survey

Straight Talk® is a suite of skills that raises the quality of communication for both people and teams. Straight Talk focuses on styles of communicating. Research has shown that people have four different ways of seeing the world and thus four different ways of communicating and relating. Each style has its own approach to leadership, problem solving, decision making, management, and conflict resolution. Armed with an understanding of these styles, people can improve their interactions very quickly.

This opens the door to an entirely new kind of organizational culture where people are more successful in their communications. Where people are more persuasive. Where conflicts are resolved quickly. Where decisions are managed effectively.

The Straight Talk® workshops are designed to provide people with these skills in a highly interactive and enjoyable format.

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Straight Talk® Information

As you explore your style of communication, you may wonder where the four primary styles - Director, Expresser, Thinker, and Harmonizer - came from. What purpose do they serve?

Straight Talk®: Turning Communication Upside Down for Strategic Results at Work

This highly acclaimed book details techniques for improving communication, cutting through conflict, and creating successful organizations.

Straight Talk® Workshops

Our experts can develop customized Straight Talk® workshops for any organization. Workshops can be crafted to focus on communication styles, managing decisions, or resolving conflicts.

Straight Talk® Roots

Thousands of years ago - anthropologists place it about 200,000 years before the present - our ancestors began living in groups. Anthropologists know that group living and language developed in conjunction with one another

Straight Talk® Research

The goal of the first phase of our research was to construct a survey that could reliably measure the Straight Talk® Communication Styles that were developed by Eric Douglas. The research focused on...