The Director Primary Style The Expresser Primary Style The Thinker Primary Style The Harmonizer Primary Style

Straight Talk® is a suite of communication skills that raises the quality of communication for both people and teams. Straight Talk® focuses on four 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.

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  • 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...

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