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<title>Brenda Townsend Hall - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<title>Teach English for Business</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The business English teacher needs to have an international perspective. In dealing 
with many different nationalities, and with clients who have to operate in the 
increasingly globalized business field, the teacher needs to be aware of the 
implications of cross-cultural communications.]]></description>
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<title>How Can A Communications Audit Help You?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Faulty internal communications can lead to mistakes, discouraged and unhappy staff, employees leaving the company.  Poor external communications can jeopardize image and sales.]]></description>
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<title>Writing Effective Newsletters</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 05:15:56 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[To persuade your audience to read your newsletter, you should follow some basic rules.]]></description>
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<title>Towards Intercultural Understanding</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:33:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An individual's ability to forge effective relationships across cultures is influenced by a very personal and highly complex mixture of emotional and cognitive processes. Anyone contemplating an overseas posting feels apprehensive about stepping into the unknown. The mere knowledge that we are leaving our own cultural comfort zone can trigger all sorts of subconscious defensive tactics that can make it difficult to operate effectively the new environment.]]></description>
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<title>Five Principles of Effective Communication</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:51:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why don't people do as I tell them?]]></description>
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<title>What Cross-cultural Training Can Do for You</title>
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<description><![CDATA[International business is more complex than ever before. Success in every sector is now seen in global terms. Yet success in working with colleagues from different cultures is no easy goal. In order to connect, we have to communicate effectively and we can only do this in an atmosphere of mutual respect, understanding and trust. Cross-cultural training helps you understand the underlying cultural values that drive behaviour--you first understand your own cultural background and then other people's.]]></description>
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<title>Choices in Appointing International Managers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Globalization is requiring companies to make important choices about how to deploy international managers. The costs of making the wrong choice are heavy both economically and in the emotional and physical toll it can take on employees and the impact it can have on the overseas branch. ]]></description>
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<title>Assessing Managers for International Competence</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:38:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How do you select staff for international assignments? It's an important question because, no matter how effective and successful your employees may be at home, they cannot be guaranteed the same performance in a different culture--unless, that is, they can demonstrate some key competencies.]]></description>
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<title>The Global Village: Culture Shock</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:29:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today we hear much talk of the 'global village'. People are have more opportunities to travel and live abroad than ever before. However, when you leave a familiar environment and go for an extended stay somewhere quite different, you could  experience a whole range of unexpected and unfamiliar feelings.]]></description>
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<title>Language in International Business</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:53:27 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The way that we use language reflects cultural preferences for some types of communicative behaviour while discouraging others. Culture will affect, for example, the extent to which we speak loudly and animatedly or quietly, whether we use lots of 'I' statements, whether we choose very explicit language or whether we are indirect. ]]></description>
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