Professional Communication Unit (PCU)

Consultancy Services

Communication training services are offered both internally to staff as well as externally to business and industry.

Assistance offered to UCT Staff

• Guidance on integrating student orals and writing into the curriculum
• A series of detailed assessment check lists / mark sheets to guide lecturers on marking the following:
  • Individual and group presentations
  • Reports Proposals Articles Letters/E-mail
• Guidelines on how to write / mark various documents and orals as well as notes on:
  • Reports Proposals - Theses - Articles
  • Preparation of Presentations
• Availability of textbook: Communicating @ Work (2nd ed. 2008) For more information see textbook.

Consultancies to various institutions

Over the years, Terri Grant has consulted in the following organisations. Activities range from management consulting, interviewing, freelance writing, publication and course review, staff training in writing (traditional and electronic), business presentations and team building.

Private and Public Sector

• Ninham Shand
• Liebenberg & Stander
• Rohr Roads
• UniTemp Thermal Technology
• Reckitt & Colman
• Shell (Cape Town & Johannesburg)
• Rennies Travel (Johannesburg)
• Medical Research Council (Cape Town & Pretoria)
• SA Naval Academy
• Nampak R & D
• Woolworths
• Board of Executors
• Old Mutual
• Investec
• ID Technologies and ID Sign Services
• AGIC Limited
• Oxford University Press
• BigNews
• Cape Provincial Department of Education
• Cheskin Research, USA
• United Way International
• Tralac (Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa)

Academic Institutions & Visiting Lectureships

• UCT (Graduate School of Business, Staff Training Dept, Extra-mural Studies, Careers Office, Tembu, SHAWCO, RAG, Adult Education Group, Centre for Intercultural Communication & Diversity Studies)
• Computer Science Institute
• Stellenbosch University
• Rhodes University
• University of Western Cape (UWC)
• Cape College of Education (now Cape Technikon)
• TSiBA Education
• Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
• Royal Melbourne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
• Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland New Zealand

Services and non-profit organisations

• Rotary
• Round Table
• Jaycees
• Hazel Bowen & Associates
• South African Guild of Speech & Drama Teachers
• South African Council for English Education
• Cape Town Eisteddfod
• Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
• Cape Cystic Fibrosis Association
• IWFS