Cross Cultural Teams
50% of the sense in any communication... can be lost in translation, claims a challenged and experienced global team manager.
With multi-national organisations increasingly composed of real and virtual teams from all over the globe, there is more and more scope for misinterpreting anything from figures of speech to strategy-level agendas. We explore the cultural differences that hinder rather than help our communication, the assumptions we make about our far-flung colleagues, and the not-always-obvious issues we need to consider whether we are doing business in Seoul or Salisbury.