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What advise to people from western and central european countries would you give on effective communication with people from India?
Most of them who work abroad have basic understanding in English, so you will not face any difficulty speaking with them.
Answer to your question, here are the 5 tips:
1) Make it simple: Please keep in mind that you are talking to someone whose native language is not English, so keep it simple as possible in terms of words and phrases you choose.
2) Make it slow: Be patient when understanding or conveying the message to someone. I have seen many people do not have the patience for this.
Remember, getting irritated at each and every thing will not help you at all.
3) Be friendly: This will ease your communication process I promise.
4) Try not to use Idioms: “Now the ball is in your court”, “Do not beat around the bush”, “A penny for your thoughts” kind of usage will not be that much helpful as you think.
5) Body language: Since it’s a form of communication too, I recommend learning few dos and don’ts while you interact with different people of culture.
And that’s the best five I can think of; however the first 3 tips are more important than the rest.
- Make your voice clear in pronounciation rather unclear acsent.
- slow that the other person be able to understand as it is not his native language
- do not use your local phrases which is not possible to know the meaning or generally not used in somewhere else.
- Make it clear the point of discussion and the topic
- Give time to otherside as well to get back the answer in comfortable manner.
Thanks.
Communicating with people changes as per situation and background of the person. Right communication makes the complicated task and situation resolved easily but Wrong communication makes even simple things complicated.
Right communication is subjective, one has to define the best way to make things done. But best ways that always works.
1. Precies
2. Polite
3. Body Language
It doesn't make a difference whether someone is from the Indian Sub-continent or not, it would be too stero-typical answer to attempt.
Although for good communication the following 5 tips should be suffice for anyone:
1. Know your audiance and tailor your communication
2. Back-up any Audio-visual communication with written communication
3. Demonstrate where possible
4. Body language is essential, hence talk to people face on
5. Finish off with a check-back
4.
- Articulate your speech; be clear and precise
- Be loud and prounounce clean
- Use body language wherver is appropriate (Indians are good with understanding body gestures)
- Crack a joke then and there (Never make your speech so boring)
- Give space for others opinions as well
