| In the international scene, knowing and identifying | | | | communication guidelines that may help you swing |
| cultural differences can make a big difference | | | | that deal are: |
| between successful business negotiations and | | | | Listening with an open mind |
| mortifying rejections. International business | | | | Communicating across cultures is all about putting |
| communication plays a major role in this, as knowing | | | | aside personal feelings and listening deeply to the |
| how to communicate through their point of view is a | | | | person talking. Develop your listening skills and learn |
| great advantage. | | | | how to hold your tongue. Knowing your own culture |
| Each country has their own way of saying things, | | | | and the others culture as well will give you a better |
| what may not be offending to you may be offending | | | | chance of bridging the differences. Keeping an open |
| to them. International business communication is all | | | | mind and sensitivity to these differences is a key |
| about knowing the important thing that lies behind | | | | factor for better communication. |
| peoples words in the international arena. | | | | Non-verbal and Verbal behavior |
| International business communication is communicating | | | | Every language had their own linguistic preferences, |
| across cultures and the first thing you must always | | | | and these preferences will give clues about those |
| put in mind is the basic understanding that one size | | | | particular cultures behavior, manners, and thinking. |
| doesnt fit all. Always putting in mind that the cultural | | | | The English use modesty and understatement, and |
| practices or habits you have does not mean that | | | | are sometimes purposely unclear to avoid |
| everyone else around the globe does. As they say, | | | | confrontation and very polite. Eloquence, |
| When in Rome, do as the Romans do. | | | | expressiveness, and flowery of words are most |
| The most important and worrying variables in the | | | | common among Italians and Spaniards, Germans on |
| international scene of business are the cultural | | | | the other hand are very logical in manner. Knowing |
| differences that most international business | | | | what people mean when they say yes is very |
| executives fail to comprehend resulting in most | | | | important; it may mean yes, I understand but not |
| international business slip-ups. The failure to identify | | | | yes, I agree. |
| and adapt to these differences through effective | | | | Gestures |
| international business communication can mean the | | | | Gestures involves sensitivity and awareness, as |
| difference between a closed deal and a faceless | | | | gestures that are not offending to you might be |
| failure. Assuming cultures affect the way people | | | | very offending to the other, as in the case of |
| communicate with each other and language above all | | | | beckoning someone to come over, some would hold |
| else, is the core of culture. | | | | out their hand with the palm up and then move the |
| Culture is the different ways in which people behave, | | | | fingers gesturing the person to come. In Asian culture |
| act, or think towards themselves, families, and other | | | | however, this gesture is considered rude. To gesture |
| people in the society. It includes customs connected | | | | someone to come in Asian culture should be done |
| with social, political, family, and religious values. | | | | with the palm facing down and then rolling the |
| Different cultures have deviating values for time and | | | | fingers. |
| its use, for personal space, and for family values and | | | | Learning effective international business |
| chats. These differences must be identified and | | | | communication is communicating across cultures, and |
| recognized to bridge the gaps between cultures and | | | | it takes great sensitivity and awareness by studying |
| for real communication to take place. | | | | cultures and becoming more perceptive and |
| Some of the effective international business | | | | adaptable in communication efforts. |