How To Skyrocket Your Corporate
Communication Skills To Irresistible Levels In 23 Countries

 For any business to
develop in today's globalized environment, cultural barriers in communication must be understood and overcome.

Studies report productivity increase by
30% through cross-cultural communication training

and 72% of companies that
fail to provide them report frequent miscommunication issues during global business dealings.

Richard D. Lewis, British linguist
at CrossCulture, has now charted communication patterns followed by business cultures in 23 different countries.

National Communication Patterns By
CrossCulture

Polish business communications rely on
emotional appeals, strategic aggression, and factual dialogue ending in final pragmatic conclusions.

Americans prefer clarifying their objectives
right from the get-go, and push for concessions on both ends of the table to reach a rapid conclusion.

As with Americans, Canadian business
culture tends to embrace directness, but seeks greater harmony through its dialogue and actions.

They prefer building up to
professional matters, first establishing a rapport, after which they tend to stall while negotiating.

Relies on fact-oriented discussions around
metrics from past trends to propose a future course, and will undergo few rounds of counter-proposals before reaching an agreement.

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