Corlea Saayman

Senior Management Associate, Spearhead Training, UAE

Corlea has 12 years experience in the education field as teacher, trainer, team leader and project manager. She is a South African national who has been living and working in the U.A.E. for the past eight years.

In 2007 she received a Master’s degree from the British University in Dubai (in association with Birmingham University, U.K.) in International Management and Policies in Education. She completed her first degree in Education at the University of Pretoria in 1994, where she specialised in the teaching of commercial subjects.

Corlea has extensive experience working with diverse groups from both the education community and corporate sectors. She started her career as a trainer for the Labour Department in South Africa instructing Secretarial Studies, Office Procedures, Business English and IT. The aim of this project was to improve their employability in order to lessen the ever increasing problem of unemployment.

She then advanced to the position of teacher and later Head of Department in a number of public and private schools in South Africa and the U.A.E. Here she gained valuable experience teaching Typing, Accountancy, Business Studies, Economics and IT to a multi-cultural group of students. She excelled in her supervisory capacity and was quickly identified as a suitable candidate to take on a more authoritative role.

For this reason she has recently been responsible for managing various start-up projects that included a new international school and two adult training centres in Abu Dhabi. During this time she designed and developed a number of Secretarial and Business Administration programmes in addition to implementing the general academic curriculum, initiating the staff recruitment process, sourcing of equipment and coordination of the marketing efforts. Further more, she also handled a variety of administrative tasks, conducted and attended regular meetings, coordinated with interest groups and wrote reports to senior managers on a regular basis.

As a professional educator Corlea is committed to the enhancement of practical skills and follows a hand-on approach in her training. She believes in interactive learning and the development of personal creativity in order to add value to the most important asset of any business – its people!

Corlea is dedicated to delivering the following quality programmes:

Management & Leadership
> How to Conduct Effective Meetings
> Planning & Organizing Skills
> Creative Problem Solving & Decision Making
> First Steps in Project Management
> Leading High Performance Teams

Customer Service
> Improve Your Telephone Skills – ‘How To Win & Keep Customers’
> Telephone Skills & Customer Care

Administrative Skills
> Office Management
> Professional Secretarial & Administration Skills
> The Perfect PA – For PA’s & Executive Secretaries

Personal Development
> Brilliant Body Language
> Be a Better Listener – Active Listening Skills
> Assertiveness Skills (& Dealing With Difficult Situations)
> Developing Effective Interpersonal & Communication Skills
> Self & Time Management
> Developing Personal Creativity

Business Writing Courses
> Professional Business Writing Skills
> Report Writing – How to Structure a Report for Maximum Effect
> Technical Report Writing
> Writing Minutes of Meetings

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