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

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

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

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

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

6. National Communication Patterns By
CrossCulture

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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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