From the course: Best Practices for Managing Global Projects
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Accepting responsibility as an English speaker
From the course: Best Practices for Managing Global Projects
Accepting responsibility as an English speaker
- Not too long ago, we had our Spanish and German project teams on a conference call and we needed to get them to grasp the urgency of the tasks they needed to get done. My project manager told them, I don't care if you have to jump through hoops and burn the midnight oil, just get it done. There was dead silence. We thought we had lost our telephone connection until one of our German colleagues asked, I'm not sure what oil you mean, is there a specification? And the Spanish chimed in with, we don't understand why is there this jumping needed. Surely, we had agreed on speaking English, so all problems were solved, right? Yeah, right. In order to help ensure a successful project, let me share with you some key items to keep an eye on if you're a native English speaker. Speed is one of them. Even when you're communicating with another English speaker, if you speak too fast, chances are that they will miss your intended meaning. Therefore, slow down your speech. Another consideration is…
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